Community-Lab introduction

  resources on a best effort basis, and having as few hardwired management
  mechanisms as possible.
- However, it supports the peculiarities of CNs: their distributed ownership,
  the fairness between their users, and their diversity but also
  their instability.
- It's important to note that all Community-Lab's software and documentation
  is “free as in freedom” so you can use them to setup your own CONFINE
  testbed. *##*

** Community-Lab as community infrastructure
- Besides supporting experimentation, *##* CONFINE helps physically extend CNs
  not only with new Community-Lab nodes, but also with new links…
- … and even services hosted in nodes like web servers, video broadcast
  stations, etc. to be used by the community. *##*
- In a more sophisticated approach, nodes can also be used to implement cloud
  infrastructure provided and managed by the community for the community.
  This is the mission of the Clommunity project.
- Now, how does the Community-Lab testbed work? *##*

* Architecture and technologies
** Testbed architecture
- It consists of a set of nodes (managed by CN members) that follow the
  configuration in a set of servers (managed by testbed operators).
- All components in the testbed become reachable via a dedicated management
  network implemented as an IPv6 overlay. *##*

  implemented as light Linux containers.  We are also working on safe node
  upgrade using kexec. *##*
- The GUI and REST API in servers are implemented as Django applications.
- The IPv6 overlay used for the management network is a tinc mesh VPN. *##*
- Finally, we use Git, Redmine, Jenkins and our Virtual CONFINE Tesbed (VCT)
  package for development and testing. *##*










* Collaborations
- CONFINE actively collaborates to the development of several Free software
  projects: the OpenWrt router distro, the BMX6 and OLSR mesh routing
  protocols, the DLEP protocol for collecting link characteristics, the NodeDB
  for describing CN nodes, the lower-level Wibed testbed, and the quick mesh
  project distro.
- CONFINE also collaborates in events like the Wireless Battle Mesh and the

- Heavily customized for CNs:
    - Some decentralization
    - Fair to other users  
      (no spying, no low-level, routing & above)
    - Simple, tolerant to network failures
- Free software: build your own testbed!

# Community-Lab as community infrastructure

- Extend CNs **[+]**
- Community-Lab for hosting services
- [Clommunity](http://clommunity-project.eu/): community clouds

# … Extend CNs

![Extending community networks](imgs/extend-network.png)

# Community-Lab as community infrastructure

- Extend CNs (with Community-Lab nodes and links)
- Community-Lab for hosting services
- [Clommunity](http://clommunity-project.eu/): community clouds

# Architecture and technologies (1/6)

![CONFINE testbed architecture](imgs/testbed.png)

# Architecture and technologies (2/6)

![CONFINE testbed architecture](imgs/testbed-slice.png)

![CONFINE testbed architecture](imgs/testbed-logos-mgmt.png)

# Architecture and technologies (6/6)

![CONFINE testbed architecture](imgs/testbed-logos-devel.png)

















# Collaborations

- [OpenWrt](https://openwrt.org/)
- [BMX6](http://bmx6.net/)
- [OLSR](http://olsr.org/)
- [DLEP](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-manet-dlep/)
- [NodeDB](https://github.com/FFM/FFM)