Community-Lab introduction

#+title: Community-Lab: A Community Networking Testbed for the Future Internet

* Introduction
** Community networks
- Origins: In spite of the importance of the Internet, companies leave behind
  people and regions of little economic interest for them.  Some groups
  started coordinating the deployment of their own networks for
  self-provision.
- Characteristics: Open participation, open and transparent management,
  distributed ownership, works and grows according to users' interests.
- Prospective: Strategic importance for the expansion of broadband access
  throughout Europe (Digital Agenda).















** Testbeds
- Environments built with real hardware for realistic experimental research on
  network technologies (instead of simulations).
- Wireless: Berlin RoofNet, MIT Roofnet (outdoor); IBBT's w-iLab.t, CERTH's
  NITOS, WINLAB's ORBIT (indoor).  Limited local scale, controlled
  environment, no resource sharing mechanisms.
- Internet: PlanetLab, planet-scale testbed with resource sharing on nodes.
  Main inspiration for Community-Lab.

** The CONFINE project
- Meaning: Community Networks Testbed for the Future Internet
- Project supported by the European Community Framework Programme 7 within the
  Future Internet Research and Experimentation Initiative (FIRE).
- Motivation: Support the growth and sustainability of community networks by
  providing the means to conduct experimentally driven research.
- Objectives: Provide a testbed and associated tools and knowledge for
  researchers to experiment on real community networks.
- Partners (list with logos): Fundació guifi.net, Funkfeuer, Athens Wireless
  Metropolitan Network (community networks); Universitat Politècnica de
  Catalunya, Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing
  and Ergonomics, Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology
  (research centres); the OPLAN Foundation, Pangea (NGOs).

** Community-Lab: a testbed for community networks
- The testbed developed by CONFINE.
- Integrates and extends three Community Networks: guifi.net, FunkFeuer, AWMN.
# Node maps here for CNs with captures from node DBs.
- Also nodes in participating research institutions.
- Linked together over FEDERICA.

#+title: Community-Lab: A Community Networking Testbed for the Future Internet

* Introduction
** Community networks
- Origins: In spite of the importance of the Internet, companies left behind
  people and regions of little economic interest for them.  Some groups
  started coordinating the deployment of their own networks for
  self-provision.
- Characteristics: Open participation, open and transparent management,
  distributed ownership, works and grows according to users' interests.
- Prospective: Strategic importance for the expansion of broadband access
  throughout Europe (as stated in the European Digital Agenda).
- A challenge: How to support the growth and sustainability of community
  networks by providing the means to conduct experimentally driven research.

** The CONFINE project (Community Networks Testbed for the Future Internet)
- Takes on the previous challenge.
- Project supported by the European Community Framework Programme 7 within the
  Future Internet Research and Experimentation Initiative (FIRE).
- Partners (list with logos): Fundació guifi.net, Funkfeuer, Athens Wireless
  Metropolitan Network (community networks); Universitat Politècnica de
  Catalunya, Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing
  and Ergonomics, Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology
  (research centres); the OPLAN Foundation, Pangea (NGOs).
- Objectives: Provide a testbed and associated tools and knowledge for
  researchers to experiment on real community networks.

** Testbeds
- Environments built with real hardware for realistic experimental research on
  network technologies (instead of simulations).
- Wireless: Berlin RoofNet, MIT Roofnet (outdoor); IBBT's w-iLab.t, CERTH's
  NITOS, WINLAB's ORBIT (indoor).  Limited local scale, controlled
  environment, no resource sharing mechanisms.
- Internet: PlanetLab, planet-scale testbed with resource sharing on nodes.
  Main inspiration for Community-Lab.















** Community-Lab: a testbed for community networks
- The testbed developed by CONFINE.
- Integrates and extends three Community Networks: guifi.net, FunkFeuer, AWMN.
# Node maps here for CNs with captures from node DBs.
- Also nodes in participating research institutions.
- Linked together over FEDERICA.