Index: script.txt ================================================================== --- script.txt +++ script.txt @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ #+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. +- Origins: In spite of the importance of the Internet, companies and + governments left behind people and regions of little economic interest for + them. Thus 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 @@ -36,12 +36,14 @@ ** 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. +- Also nodes in participating research centres. +- Linked together over the FEDERICA backbone. +- All its software and documentation is released under Free licenses, anyone + can setup a CONFINE testbed like Community-Lab. * Challenges and requirements ** Simple management vs. Distributed node ownership - In contrast with esp. indoors testbeds that belong wholly to the same entity. @@ -77,13 +79,11 @@ - Lots of different devices (disparate connectivity and software openness). - Lots of different link technologies (wireless, wired, fiber). * Community-Lab testbed architecture ** Overall architecture -This architecture applies to all testbeds using the CONFINE software. Since -all CONFINE software and documentation is released under Free licenses, anyone -can setup a CONFINE testbed. +This architecture applies to all testbeds using the CONFINE software. # Move over overlay diagram less overlay connections plus overlay network. - A testbed consists of a set of nodes managed by the same server. - Server managed by testbed admins. - Network and node managed by node admins (usually node owners). - Node admins must adhere to a set of conditions.