Browsing by Author "Baig Viñas, Roger"
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A technological overview of the guifi.net community network
Vega d'Aurelio, Davide; Baig Viñas, Roger; Cerdà Alabern, Llorenç; Medina Medina, Esunly; Meseguer Pallarès, Roc; Navarro Moldes, Leandro (2015-12-24)
Article
Open AccessThis work presents a technological analysis of guifi.net, a free, neutral, and open-access community network. Guifi.net consists of more than 27,000 operational nodes, which makes it the world’s largest community network ... -
Advances in wireless community networks with the community-lab testbed
Navarro Moldes, Leandro; Baig Viñas, Roger; Barz, Christoph; Bonicioli, Joseph; Braem, Bart; Freitag, Fèlix; Vilalta i Balaguer, Ivan (2016-07)
Article
Open AccessBeyond traditional telecom providers, citizens and organizations pool their own resources and coordinate in order to build local network infrastructures to address the digital divide in many parts of the world. These ... -
Cloud-based extension for Community-Lab
Selimi, Mennan; Florit López, Jorge Luis; Vega d'Aurelio, Davide; Meseguer Pallarès, Roc; López Berga, Ester; Khan, Muhammad Amin; Neumann, Axel; Freitag, Fèlix; Navarro Moldes, Leandro; Baig Viñas, Roger; Escrich, Pau; Moll, Agusti; Pueyo, Roguer; Vilalta, Ivan; Aymerich, Marc; Lamora, Santiago (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyCommunity-Lab is an open, distributed infrastructure for researchers to carry out experiments within wireless community networks. Community networks are an emergent model of infrastructures built with off-the-shelf ... -
Cloudy in guifi.net: Establishing and sustaining a community cloud as open commons
Baig Viñas, Roger; Freitag, Fèlix; Navarro Moldes, Leandro (Elsevier, 2018-10)
Article
Open AccessCommons are natural or human-made resources that are managed cooperatively. The guifi.net community network is a successful example of a digital infrastructure, a computer network, managed as an open commons. Inspired by ... -
Community network clouds as a case for the IEEE Intercloud standardization
Baig Viñas, Roger; Freitag, Fèlix; Moll, Agustí; Navarro Moldes, Leandro; Pueyo Centelles, Roger; Vlassov, Vladimir (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015)
Conference report
Open AccessThe IEEE P2302 Intercloud WG conducts work since 2011 on the project Standard for Intercloud Interoperability and Federation with the goal to define a standard architecture and building components for large-scale ... -
Community networks and sustainability: a survey of perceptions, practices, and proposed solutions
Micholia, Panagiota; Karaliopoulos, Merkouris; Koutsopoulos, Iordanis; Navarro Moldes, Leandro; Baig Viñas, Roger; Boucas, Dimitris; Michalis, Maria; Antoniadis, Panayiotis (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018-03-21)
Article
Open AccessCommunity network (CN) initiatives have been around for roughly two decades, evangelizing a distinctly different paradigm for building, maintaining, and sharing network infrastructure but also defending the basic human ... -
Deploying clouds in the Guifi community network
Baig Viñas, Roger; Dowling, Jim; Escrich, Pau; Freitag, Fèlix; Meseguer Pallarès, Roc; Moll, Agustí; Navarro Moldes, Leandro; Pietrosemoli, Ermanno; Pueyo, Roger; Vlassov, Vladimir; Zennaro, Marco (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015)
Conference report
Open AccessThis paper describes an operational geographically distributed and heterogeneous cloud infrastructure with services and applications deployed in the Guifi community network. The presented cloud is a particular case of a ... -
Development and management of collective network and cloud computing infrastructures
Baig Viñas, Roger (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-11-18)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessIn the search and development of more participatory models for infrastructure development and management, in this dissertation, we investigate models for the financing, deployment, and operation of network and cloud computing ... -
Experiences with distributed heterogeneous clouds over community networks
Selimi, Mennan; Freitag, Fèlix; Martí, Daniel; Pueyo, Roguer; Escrich, Pau; Baig Viñas, Roger (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2014)
Conference lecture
Restricted access - publisher's policyCommunity networks [1] are decentralized and self-organized communication networks built and operated by citizens and for citizens. They are an emergent model of infrastructure that aims to satisfy a community's demand for ... -
guifi.net, a crowdsourced network infrastructure held in common
Baig Viñas, Roger; Roca Tió, Ramon; Freitag, Fèlix; Navarro Moldes, Leandro (2015-10-29)
Article
Open AccessThe expression “crowdsourced computer networks” refers to a network infrastructure built by citizens and organisations who pool their resources and coordinate their efforts to make these networks happen. “Community networks” ... -
On edge microclouds to provide local container-based services
Baig Viñas, Roger; Pueyo Centelles, Roger; Freitag, Fèlix; Navarro Moldes, Leandro (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017)
Conference report
Open AccessEdge computing has been proposed to enable more user-centric cloud-based services. Nowadays, edge computing is operational in industrial and consumer-oriented scenarios. An important limitation of today's solutions, however, ... -
On the Guifi.net community network economics
Cerdà Alabern, Llorenç; Baig Viñas, Roger; Navarro Moldes, Leandro (2020-02-26)
Article
Restricted access - publisher's policyHow costs are distributed among the participants is a key question in the management and viability of shared resources. Although all cost-sharing mechanisms are subjective and thus it is eventually up to the participants ... -
On the sustainability of community clouds in guifi.net
Baig Viñas, Roger; Freitag, Fèlix; Navarro Moldes, Leandro (Springer, 2015)
Conference report
Open AccessThe Internet and cloud services are key enablers for participation in society. The need for Internet access in areas underserved by commercial telecom operators has often been a motivation to develop community networks. Many ... -
WiBed, a platform for commodity wireless testbeds
Escrich, Pau; Baig Viñas, Roger; Dimogerontakis, Emmanouil; Carbo Sole, Eloi; Neumann, Axel; Fonseca, Alexander; Freitag, Fèlix; Navarro Moldes, Leandro (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
Conference report
Open AccessTestbeds are a stage between the simulation and the production stages. To this end they must be as close as possible to production environments (i.e. real hardware, on the field deployments) while also keeping the traits ...