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            1  +#+title: Community-Lab: Exploring the Future Internet on Community Networks
            2  +
            3  +* Introduction
            4  +Hello, I'm (Speaker) from (organization), I work at the CONFINE project and
            5  +I'm going to talk you about Community-Lab, a community networking testbed for
            6  +the future Internet. *##*
            7  +
            8  +** Community networks
            9  +- Infrastructure deployed by organized groups of people for self-provision of
           10  +  broadband networking that works and grows according to their own interests.
           11  +- Like some Free software projects: based on open participation, open and
           12  +  transparent management, distributed ownership (a big step beyond private and
           13  +  state-owned infrastructures).
           14  +- These also translate into open, free (as in freedom) and neutral networks,
           15  +  values akin to the Free software movement.  Some have mutual agreement texts
           16  +  similar to Free software liceses.
           17  +- The EU in its Digital Agenda regards CNs as fundamental for the
           18  +  universalization of broadband networking. *##*
           19  +
           20  +** The CONFINE project
           21  +- EU-financed project with several partners: CNs, research institutions and
           22  +  supporting NGOs.
           23  +- Mission: support the sustainable growth of CNs by providing the means to
           24  +  conduct experimentally driven research.
           25  +- Supports other projects advancing or extending CNs via financed Open Calls
           26  +  (now closed).
           27  +- Provides a testbed and associated tools and knowledge for researchers to
           28  +  experiment on real CNs. *##*
           29  +
           30  +** Community-Lab
           31  +- CONFINE's testbed: an environment built with real hardware taking part in
           32  +  real community networks to allow realistic experimental research on network
           33  +  technologies and services.
           34  +- Mostly like PlanetLab: global scale, with experiments sharing resources on a
           35  +  best effort basis, and as few hardwired management mechanisms as possible.
           36  +- Supporting the peculiarities of CNs: distributed ownership, fairness between
           37  +  users, diversity but also instability.
           38  +- All Community-Lab's software and documentation is “free as in freedom” so
           39  +  you can use it to setup your own CONFINE testbed. *##*
           40  +
           41  +** Community-Lab as community infrastructure
           42  +
           43  +- CONFINE can help physically extend CNs with new Community-Lab nodes.
           44  +- Nodes can also host services like web servers, video broadcast
           45  +  stations, etc.
           46  +- Nodes can also be used as infrastructure for cloud infrastructure provided
           47  +  and managed by the community for the community: Clommunity project. *##*
           48  +
           49  +* Architecture and technologies
           50  +** Testbed architecture
           51  +- Community-Lab consists of a set of nodes (managed by CN members) that follow
           52  +  the configuration in a set of servers (managed by testbed operators).
           53  +- All components in the testbed become reachable via a dedicated management
           54  +  network implemented as an IPv6 overlay.
           55  +- Researchers define experiments (so called slices) in a server.
           56  +- Nodes use a REST API to get those definitions from servers and run several
           57  +  of them simultaneously as VMs (so called slivers).
           58  +- Slivers can access the CN via NAT, natively at the network layer, or in an
           59  +  isolated VLAN for routing experiments. *##*
           60  +
           61  +** Technologies
           62  +- Nodes are connected via Ethernet to normal community devices.
           63  +- Nodes are moderately powerful computers running OpenWrt with a daemon
           64  +  written in Lua.  Slivers are implemented as Linux containers.  We are
           65  +  working on safe node upgrade using kexec.
           66  +- The GUI and REST API in servers are implemented as Django applications.
           67  +- The IPv6 overlay used for the management network is a tinc mesh VPN.
           68  +- We use Git, Redmine, Jenkins and our Virtual CONFINE Tesbed (VCT) package
           69  +  for development and testing. *##*
           70  +
           71  +* Collaborations
           72  +- CONFINE actively collaborates to the development of several Free software
           73  +  projects: the OpenWrt router distro, the BMX6 and OLSR mesh routing
           74  +  protocols, the DLEP protocol for collecting link characteristics, the NodeDB
           75  +  for describing CN nodes, the lower-level Wibed testbed, and the quick mesh
           76  +  project distro.
           77  +- CONFINE also collaborates in events like the Wireless Battle Mesh and the
           78  +  International Summit for Community Wireless Netwroks. *##*
           79  +
           80  +* Future
           81  +- In the near future we plan to work on the testing, stabilization and
           82  +  documentation of the testbed to make it more maintainable and usable for the
           83  +  long term.
           84  +- We will also start work on federating CONFINE testbeds between themselves
           85  +  and with PlanetLab-like testbeds using the Slice-based
           86  +  Federation Architecture.
           87  +- We will be gradually opening the Community-Lab testbed to all kind of
           88  +  external users in the networking and academic communities. *##*
           89  +
           90  +* Participate!
           91  +- So this was a very schematic summary about community networks, the CONFINE
           92  +  project and its Community-Lab testbed.
           93  +- For more information you can visit these links or meet us in person in the
           94  +  CONFINE stand in the K building.
           95  +
           96  +(Questions? Thanks!)
           97  +
           98  +# Local Variables:
           99  +# mode: org
          100  +# End:

Added slides,lightning.txt version [410b8c2bec].

            1  +% Community-Lab: Exploring the Future Internet on Community Networks
            2  +% Ivan Vilata-i-Balaguer <ivan@pangea.org> (Pangea/CONFINE project)
            3  +% FOSDEM 2014
            4  +
            5  +# Community networks (CNs)
            6  +
            7  +- Broadband self-provision
            8  +- Similar to Free software:
            9  +    - Open participation & management,  
           10  +      distributed ownership
           11  +      <!--- private / public / community --->
           12  +    - Open, Free, neutral networks  
           13  +    - Mutual agreement texts
           14  +- Key for EU Digital Agenda
           15  +
           16  +# The CONFINE project
           17  +
           18  +- Partners:
           19  +    - CNs: guifi.net, Funkfeuer, AWMN
           20  +    - Research: UPC, FKIE, iMinds
           21  +    - NGOs: Pangea, OPLAN
           22  +<!--- logos --->
           23  +- Support sustainable growth of CNs via research  
           24  +  (technologies & services)
           25  +- Help other projects boost CNs (Open Calls)
           26  +<!--- OC1 & OC2 project listing --->
           27  +- Provide a testbed for CNs: Community-Lab
           28  +
           29  +# Community-Lab
           30  +
           31  +- A testbed built on community networks
           32  +- Like PlanetLab:
           33  +    - Global scale
           34  +    - Experiments sharing resources
           35  +    - Best effort
           36  +    - Unbundled management
           37  +- Heavily customized for CNs:
           38  +    - Some decentralization
           39  +    - Fair to other users  
           40  +      (no spying, no low-level, routing & above)
           41  +    - Simple, tolerant to network failures
           42  +- Free software: build your own testbed!
           43  +
           44  +# Community-Lab as community infrastructure
           45  +
           46  +- Extend CNs with Community-Lab nodes
           47  +<!--- Figure from IS4CWN slide #15 --->
           48  +- Community-Lab for hosting services
           49  +- [Clommunity](http://clommunity-project.eu/): community clouds
           50  +
           51  +# Architecture and technologies
           52  +
           53  +<!--- testbed architecture diagram --->
           54  +- Testbed
           55  +    - Nodes, servers, management network
           56  +    - Researchers, slices and slivers
           57  +    - Sliver connectivity: NAT, native L3, isolated L2
           58  +<!--- overlay CD and RD pictures --->
           59  +<!--- overlay logos on top of diagram --->
           60  +- Nodes: OpenWrt, Lua, LXC, kexec
           61  +- Servers: Django
           62  +- Management network: tinc
           63  +- Software development: Git, Redmine, Jenkins, VCT
           64  +
           65  +# Collaborations
           66  +
           67  +- [OpenWrt](https://openwrt.org/)
           68  +- [BMX6](http://bmx6.net/)
           69  +- [OLSR](http://olsr.org/)
           70  +- [DLEP](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-manet-dlep/)
           71  +- [NodeDB](https://github.com/FFM/FFM)
           72  +- [Wibed](http://wiki.confine-project.eu/wibed:start)
           73  +- quick mesh project ([qMp](http://qmp.cat/))
           74  +- Wireless Battle of the Mesh ([BattleMesh](http://battlemesh.org/))
           75  +- International Summit for Community Wireless Networks
           76  +  ([IS4CWN](http://wirelesssummit.org/))
           77  +
           78  +# Future
           79  +
           80  +- Stabilization, maintainability, usability
           81  +- Federation with other testbeds
           82  +    - PlanetLab & others (SFA)
           83  +    - CONFINE / CONFINE
           84  +- Open Community-Lab to external users
           85  +    - Community members
           86  +    - Networking developers
           87  +    - Internship students…
           88  +
           89  +# Thank you!
           90  +
           91  +Meet us at the CONFINE stand in the K building!
           92  +
           93  +More info:
           94  +
           95  +- <http://community-lab.net/>
           96  +- <http://confine-project.eu/>
           97  +
           98  +© 2014 The CONFINE project  
           99  +[Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike][cc-by-sa]
          100  +
          101  +[cc-by-sa]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
          102  +    "Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International — CC BY-SA 4.0"