Community-Lab introduction

Check-in [d0b1c0ae67]
Login
Overview
Comment:Better place to mention Free licenses.
Downloads: Tarball | ZIP archive | SQL archive
Timelines: family | ancestors | descendants | both | trunk
Files: files | file ages | folders
SHA1:d0b1c0ae67b25652ac9189b677ba47309a5ff97f
User & Date: ivan on 2012-09-17 18:16:42
Other Links: manifest | tags
Context
2012-09-17
21:28
Added diagram with nodes, slices and slivers. check-in: 81d6ba9caa user: ivan tags: trunk
18:16
Better place to mention Free licenses. check-in: d0b1c0ae67 user: ivan tags: trunk
17:58
Better narrative ordering for intro sections. check-in: 62410c1eeb user: ivan tags: trunk
Changes
Hide Diffs Side-by-Side Diffs Ignore Whitespace Patch

Modified script.txt from [72171d1987] to [f759c594c4].

     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 left behind
     6         -  people and regions of little economic interest for them.  Some groups
     7         -  started coordinating the deployment of their own networks for
     8         -  self-provision.
            5  +- Origins: In spite of the importance of the Internet, companies and
            6  +  governments left behind people and regions of little economic interest for
            7  +  them.  Thus some groups started coordinating the deployment of their own
            8  +  networks for 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     12     throughout Europe (as stated in the European Digital Agenda).
    13     13   - A challenge: How to support the growth and sustainability of community
    14     14     networks by providing the means to conduct experimentally driven research.
    15     15   
................................................................................
    34     34   - Internet: PlanetLab, planet-scale testbed with resource sharing on nodes.
    35     35     Main inspiration for Community-Lab.
    36     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         -- Also nodes in participating research institutions.
    42         -- Linked together over FEDERICA.
           41  +- Also nodes in participating research centres.
           42  +- Linked together over the FEDERICA backbone.
           43  +- All its software and documentation is released under Free licenses, anyone
           44  +  can setup a CONFINE testbed like Community-Lab.
    43     45   
    44     46   * Challenges and requirements
    45     47   ** Simple management vs. Distributed node ownership
    46     48   - In contrast with esp. indoors testbeds that belong wholly to the same
    47     49     entity.
    48     50   
    49     51   ** Features vs. Lightweight, low cost (free & open)
................................................................................
    75     77   
    76     78   ** Heterogeneity vs. Compatibility
    77     79   - Lots of different devices (disparate connectivity and software openness).
    78     80   - Lots of different link technologies (wireless, wired, fiber).
    79     81   
    80     82   * Community-Lab testbed architecture
    81     83   ** Overall architecture
    82         -This architecture applies to all testbeds using the CONFINE software.  Since
    83         -all CONFINE software and documentation is released under Free licenses, anyone
    84         -can setup a CONFINE testbed.
           84  +This architecture applies to all testbeds using the CONFINE software.
    85     85   # Move over overlay diagram less overlay connections plus overlay network.
    86     86   - A testbed consists of a set of nodes managed by the same server.
    87     87     - Server managed by testbed admins.
    88     88     - Network and node managed by node admins (usually node owners).
    89     89     - Node admins must adhere to a set of conditions.
    90     90     - Solves management vs. ownersip problem.
    91     91   - All components in testbed reachable via management network (tinc mesh VPN).