Browsing by Author "Baig Viñas, Roger"
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Advances in wireless community networks with the community-lab testbed
(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 ... -
A technological overview of the guifi.net community network
(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 ... -
Cloud-based extension for Community-Lab
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ...
