CNBuB 2015 workshop impressions

CNBuB 2015 in its 4th edition was held in August 26, 2015 in Rome.

We had the presentation of 6 papers addressing the network and service level of community networks:

Experimental Evaluation of BMX6 Routing Metrics in a 802.11an Wireless Community Mesh Network Llorenç Cerdà, Alabern, Axel Neumann and Leonardo Maccari Federation tools: An […]

Summer Course at Mekelle Institute of Technology, Ethiopia

In July 2015 CONFINE has participated in a project promoted by the Centre de Cooperació per al Desenvolupament de la UPC consisting in a course of 30 hours entitled Linux Routers and Community Networks, and deploying a WiFi mesh network in the Campus of Mekelle Institute of Technology, Ethiopia. In the following link there is […]

4th CNBuB in Rome, Italy, August 24-26, 2015, colocated with FiCloud 2015

4th CNBuB with FiCloud 2015

The forth edition of our CNBuB workshop is colocated with FiCloud 2015.

It will take place in Rome, Italy, between 24-26 of August, 2015.

This year the CfP of CNBuB has been extended with more emphasis on services in community networks. http://research.ac.upc.edu/CNBuB2015/ We encourage you to consider CNBuB for […]

3rd CNBuB at WIMoB 2014

The 3rd Workshop on Community Networks and Bottom-up-Broadband (CNBuB) took place in Larnaca, Cyprus, the 8th of October 2014. 6 scientific papers were presented on different areas of research, ranging from networking to applications, from Internet architectures at the last mile to federation. The workshop helped to present several community network topics to the audience, […]

Participation in the 2nd GAIA Meeting in Cambridge

We presented Community-Lab in the 2nd meeting of the IRTF GAIA WG in Cambridge, October 20-21, 2014. A complete session of three presentations was dedicated to community networks: The Community-Lab testbed, the Guifi.net community network, and clouds in community networks.

Call to fund experiments from SME (Fed4FIRE)

Community-Lab is part of the Fed4FIRE federated testbeds. As part of that there’s a call to fund experiments from SME (typically European but other countries may apply). See below. You can get up to 25,000 € with a quite lightweight application.

2ndFed4FIRE competitive call for SME Experimenters – An instrument for SME’s to get involved […]

Special session on community networks and services in GECON 2015

We presented in GECON 2014 a paper on the participatory analysis in Guifi, in order to raise a discussion on how community clouds need to be designed regarding their economic and social components. You can find our paper […]

Participating in the Fed4FIRE-GENI Reseach Experiment Summit (FGRE 2014)

We participate in the Fed4FIRE-GENI Reseach Experiment Summit (FGRE 2014) to learn in hands-on sessions the tools and testbed facilities available through the Fed4FIRE project. Community-Lab has adopted SFA and is one of the testbeds integrated in Fed4FIRE. Fed4FIRE users can chose Community-Lab through tools like jFed.

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3rd CNBuB in Larnaca, Cyprus, October 8th, 2014

3rd CNBuB in Larnaca, Cyprus, October 8th, 2014

We organize the third edition of the CNBuB workshop.

Again co-located with WiMob, it will take place in Larnaca, Cyprus, October 8th, 2014.

The CfP of CNBuB has been extended regarding the topics related to clouds in community networks, especially:

Clouds for community networks Interoperation of […]

CONFINE endorses the Battle of the Mesh v7

The Wireless Battle of the Mesh is an event that aims to bring together people from across the globe to test the performance of different routing protocols for ad-hoc networks, like Babel, B.A.T.M.A.N., BMX6, OLSR, and 802.11s. Of course, new protocols (working on OpenWRT ) are always welcome!

This year the even will take […]