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Some have mutual agreement texts + similar to Free software liceses. +- The EU in its Digital Agenda regards CNs as fundamental for the + universalization of broadband networking. *##* + +** The CONFINE project +- EU-financed project with several partners: CNs, research institutions and + supporting NGOs. +- Mission: support the sustainable growth of CNs by providing the means to + conduct experimentally driven research. +- Supports other projects advancing or extending CNs via financed Open Calls + (now closed). +- Provides a testbed and associated tools and knowledge for researchers to + experiment on real CNs. *##* + +** Community-Lab +- CONFINE's testbed: an environment built with real hardware taking part in + real community networks to allow realistic experimental research on network + technologies and services. +- Mostly like PlanetLab: global scale, with experiments sharing resources on a + best effort basis, and as few hardwired management mechanisms as possible. +- Supporting the peculiarities of CNs: distributed ownership, fairness between + users, diversity but also instability. +- All Community-Lab's software and documentation is “free as in freedom” so + you can use it to setup your own CONFINE testbed. *##* + +** Community-Lab as community infrastructure + +- CONFINE can help physically extend CNs with new Community-Lab nodes. +- Nodes can also host services like web servers, video broadcast + stations, etc. +- Nodes can also be used as infrastructure for cloud infrastructure provided + and managed by the community for the community: Clommunity project. *##* + +* Architecture and technologies +** Testbed architecture +- Community-Lab 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 management network, + implemented as a VPN IPv6 overlay. +- Researchers define experiments (so called slices) in a server. +- Nodes use a REST API to get those definitions from servers and run several + of them simultaneously as VMs (so called slivers). *##* + +** Technologies +- Nodes are connected via Ethernet to normal community devices. +- Nodes are moderately powerful computers running OpenWrt with a daemon + written in Lua. Slivers are implemented as Linux containers. We are + working on safe node upgrade using kexec. +- The GUI and REST API in servers are implemented as Django applications. +- The management network overlay is a tinc mesh VPN. +- We use Git, Redmine, Jenkins and our Virtual CONFINE Tesbed (VCT) package + for development and testing. + +# Local Variables: +# mode: org +# End: ADDED slides,lightning.txt Index: slides,lightning.txt ================================================================== --- slides,lightning.txt +++ slides,lightning.txt @@ -0,0 +1,100 @@ +% Community-Lab: Exploring the Future Internet on Community Networks +% Ivan Vilata-i-Balaguer (Pangea/CONFINE project) +% FOSDEM 2014 + +# Community networks (CNs) + +- Broadband self-provision +- Similar to Free software: + - Open participation & management, + distributed ownership + + - Open, Free, neutral networks + - Mutual agreement texts +- Key for EU Digital Agenda + +# The CONFINE project + +- Partners: + - CNs: guifi.net, Funkfeuer, AWMN + - Research: UPC, FKIE, iMinds + - NGOs: Pangea, OPLAN + +- Support sustainable growth of CNs via research + (technologies & services) +- Help other projects boost CNs (Open Calls) + +- Provide a testbed for CNs: Community-Lab + +# Community-Lab + +- A testbed built on community networks +- Like PlanetLab: + - Global scale + - Experiments sharing resources + - Best effort + - Unbundled management +- 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 with Community-Lab nodes + +- Community-Lab for hosting services +- [Clommunity](http://clommunity-project.eu/): community clouds + +# Architecture and technologies + + +- Testbed + - Nodes, servers, management network + - Researchers, slices and slivers + +- Nodes: OpenWrt, Lua, LXC, kexec +- Servers: Django +- Management network: tinc +- Software development: Git, Redmine, Jenkins, VCT + +# 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) +- [Wibed](http://wiki.confine-project.eu/wibed:start) +- quick mesh project ([qMp](http://qmp.cat/)) +- Wireless Battle of the Mesh ([BattleMesh](http://battlemesh.org/)) +- International Summit for Community Wireless Networks + ([IS4CWN](http://wirelesssummit.org/)) + +# Future + +- Stabilization, maintainability, usability +- Federation with other testbeds + - PlanetLab & others (SFA) + - CONFINE / CONFINE +- Open Community-Lab to external users + - Community members + - Networking developers + - Internship students… + +# Thank you! + +Meet us at the CONFINE stand in the K building! + +More info: + +- +- + +© 2014 Associació Pangea +[Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike][cc-by-sa] + +[cc-by-sa]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ + "Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International — CC BY-SA 4.0"