Community-Lab introduction

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     1      1   #+title: Community-Lab: A Community Networking Testbed for the Future Internet
     2      2   
     3      3   * Introduction
     4      4   ** Community networks
     5         -- Origins: In spite of the importance of the Internet, companies leave behind
            5  +- Origins: In spite of the importance of the Internet, companies left behind
     6      6     people and regions of little economic interest for them.  Some groups
     7      7     started coordinating the deployment of their own networks for
     8      8     self-provision.
     9      9   - Characteristics: Open participation, open and transparent management,
    10     10     distributed ownership, works and grows according to users' interests.
    11     11   - Prospective: Strategic importance for the expansion of broadband access
    12         -  throughout Europe (Digital Agenda).
           12  +  throughout Europe (as stated in the European Digital Agenda).
           13  +- A challenge: How to support the growth and sustainability of community
           14  +  networks by providing the means to conduct experimentally driven research.
           15  +
           16  +** The CONFINE project (Community Networks Testbed for the Future Internet)
           17  +- Takes on the previous challenge.
           18  +- Project supported by the European Community Framework Programme 7 within the
           19  +  Future Internet Research and Experimentation Initiative (FIRE).
           20  +- Partners (list with logos): Fundació guifi.net, Funkfeuer, Athens Wireless
           21  +  Metropolitan Network (community networks); Universitat Politècnica de
           22  +  Catalunya, Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing
           23  +  and Ergonomics, Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology
           24  +  (research centres); the OPLAN Foundation, Pangea (NGOs).
           25  +- Objectives: Provide a testbed and associated tools and knowledge for
           26  +  researchers to experiment on real community networks.
    13     27   
    14     28   ** Testbeds
    15     29   - Environments built with real hardware for realistic experimental research on
    16     30     network technologies (instead of simulations).
    17     31   - Wireless: Berlin RoofNet, MIT Roofnet (outdoor); IBBT's w-iLab.t, CERTH's
    18     32     NITOS, WINLAB's ORBIT (indoor).  Limited local scale, controlled
    19     33     environment, no resource sharing mechanisms.
    20     34   - Internet: PlanetLab, planet-scale testbed with resource sharing on nodes.
    21     35     Main inspiration for Community-Lab.
    22     36   
    23         -** The CONFINE project
    24         -- Meaning: Community Networks Testbed for the Future Internet
    25         -- Project supported by the European Community Framework Programme 7 within the
    26         -  Future Internet Research and Experimentation Initiative (FIRE).
    27         -- Motivation: Support the growth and sustainability of community networks by
    28         -  providing the means to conduct experimentally driven research.
    29         -- Objectives: Provide a testbed and associated tools and knowledge for
    30         -  researchers to experiment on real community networks.
    31         -- Partners (list with logos): Fundació guifi.net, Funkfeuer, Athens Wireless
    32         -  Metropolitan Network (community networks); Universitat Politècnica de
    33         -  Catalunya, Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing
    34         -  and Ergonomics, Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology
    35         -  (research centres); the OPLAN Foundation, Pangea (NGOs).
    36         -
    37     37   ** Community-Lab: a testbed for community networks
    38     38   - The testbed developed by CONFINE.
    39     39   - Integrates and extends three Community Networks: guifi.net, FunkFeuer, AWMN.
    40     40   # Node maps here for CNs with captures from node DBs.
    41     41   - Also nodes in participating research institutions.
    42     42   - Linked together over FEDERICA.
    43     43