Community-Lab introduction

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    20     20     Metropolitan Network; (research centres) Universitat Politècnica de
    21     21     Catalunya, Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing
    22     22     and Ergonomics, Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology; (NGOs)
    23     23     OPLAN Foundation, Pangea.
    24     24   - Objective: Provide a testbed and associated tools and knowledge for
    25     25     researchers to experiment on real community networks.
    26     26   
    27         -** Testbeds
    28         -- Environments built with real hardware for realistic experimental research on
           27  +** Testbed?
           28  +- Environment built with real hardware for realistic experimental research on
    29     29     network technologies.
    30         -- Wireless, both outdoor (HU's Berlin RoofNet, MIT Roofnet) and indoor (IBBT's
    31         -  w-iLab.t, CERTH's NITOS, WINLAB's ORBIT).  Problems: limited local scale,
           30  +- Wireless, both indoor (IBBT's w-iLab.t, CERTH's NITOS, WINLAB's ORBIT) and
           31  +  outdoor (HU's Berlin RoofNet, MIT Roofnet).  Problems: limited local scale,
    32     32     controlled environment, no resource sharing between experiments.
    33     33   - Internet: PlanetLab, planet-scale testbed with resource sharing on nodes.
    34     34     Main inspiration for Community-Lab.
    35     35   
    36     36   ** Community-Lab: a testbed for community networks
    37     37   - The testbed developed by CONFINE.
    38     38   # Node maps here for CNs with captures from node DBs.