European Research7th Framework Programme

Project title: Community Networks Testbed for the Future Internet.

Dissemination, training, standardizationactivities in year 4

Deliverable number: D5.6

Project Acronym: CONFINEProject Full Title: Community Networks Testbed for the Future Internet.Type of contract: Large-scale integrating project (IP)contract No: 288535Project URL: http://confine-project.eu

Editor: Leandro Navarro, UPCDeliverable nature: Report (R)Dissemination level: Public (PU)Contractual Delivery Date: Setember 30, 2015Actual Delivery Date September 30, 2015Suggested Readers: Project partnersNumber of pages: 29Keywords: WP5, dissemination, training, standardization, concertation, com-

munity networks, testbed, experimentationAuthors: Leandro Navarro, UPC

Felix Freitag, UPCAxel Neumann, UPCChristoph Barz, Fraunhofer FKIEHenning Rogge, Fraunhofer FKIEBart Braem, iMinds

Peer review: Llorenc Cerda, UPC

Abstract

This document describes progress achieved between M37 and M48 regarding the CONFINE project’sdissemination, training, and standardization activities. This deliverable D5.6 supplements deliverableD5.5 which described progress made until M36.

Contents

1. Dissemination activities 41.1. Internet-based activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

1.1.1. Maintenance of the internet-based activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.2. Broader media dissemination activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.3. Project Presentations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.4. Scientific Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

1.4.1. Special issue on Community Networks in the Computer Networks Journal . . 121.5. Major hosted, organized and attended events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

1.5.1. CNBuB - International Workshop on Community Networks and Bottom-Up-Broadband . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

1.5.2. BATTLEMESH v8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151.5.3. GECON 2015 - Track 3. Community Nets and the Sharing Economy . . . . . 151.5.4. WONS 2016 Special Track on Community Networks and Services . . . . . . 161.5.5. GAIA working group and workshops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161.5.6. Broadband Europe - Connected Communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

1.6. Related events with project participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181.6.1. SAX 2015 meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181.6.2. Athens Wireless Summit 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

1.7. Open-source software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

2. Training activities 202.1. Summer Course at Mekelle Institute of Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

3. Standardization activities 22

4. Concertation activities 244.1. Participation in EU activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244.2. Interaction and synergies with other initiatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

5. Conclusions 25

A. Annex 26A.1. Web statistics: visits to the confine-project.eu site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

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1.1. The project web site: http://confine-project.eu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.2. The project wiki: http://wiki.confine-project.eu . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.3. The testbed web site: http://community-lab.net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.4. Treemap of slices (experiments) per group (organisation) with area corresponding to

number of slivers (virtual machines running on Research Devices). . . . . . . . . . . 61.5. Treemap of nodes (Research Devices) per resource provider (organisation) with area

corresponding to number of slivers running in each. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.6. Table of groups that can be resource providers (contributing nodes) or resource users

(“contributing” or performing experiments). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.7. Call for papers, special issue Elsevier Computer Networks Journal . . . . . . . . . . 131.8. CNBuB 2014 web page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131.9. CNBuB 2015 web page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141.10. The CNBuB 2014 venue, during a CONFINE presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141.11. The CNBuB 2015 venue, during a CONFINE presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141.12. Final session of the WBMv8, Maribor, Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151.13. Announcement of GECON2015 track in Community Networks and the Sharing Econ-

omy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161.14. The GAIA WG one day meeting in San Jose (USA) co-located with ACMDEV 2014. 171.15. The DGCONNECT Connected Communities workshop in Brussels 25/6/2015 . . . . 171.16. The SAX 2015 meeting, talk and discussion about EU projects, 11/7/2015 . . . . . . 18

2.1. Course at Mekelle Institute of Technology, Ethiopia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

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1.1. Scientific Publications in year 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

A.1. Page views by targeted URL (top 15) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26A.2. Top countries in number of visits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27A.3. Top continents in number of visits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27A.4. Top referer links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

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Executive Summary

In Work Package Five (WP5) the CONFINE consortium carries out dissemination, training and stan-dardization activities in order to promote the project results. This document builds upon and updatesdeliverable D5.5 which described progress made in the previous three years.As with the first three years of the project, dissemination activities in the fourth year have success-fully addressed different stakeholders. The consortium brought community networks research to theacademic audience through the organization of the CNBuB series of workshops. The presentationof CONFINE to the community network activists was achieved through CONFINE’s participationin the BattleMesh series of workshops with the adoption of the Community-Lab testbed (WiBed) asthe substrate for their experiments. In addition, a long list of presentations were given by attendingevents, preparing and presenting numerous scientific papers. The series of CNBuB, Battlemesh andGAIA workshops, and the special issue of Elsevier Computer Networks journal, show that communitynetworking has become a visible and mature field.Regarding training activities in the fourth year were focused to several student groups and to com-munity network members for the deployment of experimental services that can be a path to futuresustainability of the testbed though more involvement of the communities themselves. Several Mas-ter thesis conducted experiments in Community-Lab and research questions of Community-Lab areinvestigated in on-going PhD theses at several member and partner research organisations.In standardization, activities at the IETF had a strong focus on the OLSRv2 standardization. TheGAIA WG from IRTF has resulted in a published and revised draft document on community net-works. Its global scope on connecting everyone has brought us into ICT for Development and inconnection and discussion with small to large industry efforts, governments, and diverse business andsustainability models.Concertation has developed at many levels, with the European Geant network, with other FIRE, CAPSand with other national or FP7 projects using our testbed. A promising collaboration is developing inthe context of the Broadband Europe program with the Connected Communities initiative to supportinnovative local projects for the deployment of high speed broadband which can be later replicatedacross the European Union.In summary, the time is ripe for community networking infrastructures to provide mature ways toconnect everyone in a sustainable manner. The CONFINE team has made major efforts and contribu-tions to understand, develop and evaluate technologies and models through experimentation, as wellas show, define and coordinate how communities can empower themselves to be online.

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1. Dissemination activities

Dissemination activities of CONFINE aims at reaching a broad spectrum of social groups and stake-holders. Among the targets are: the community networks in Europe and other initiatives globally, thescientific community, university engineering students, local and civic governments and policy makers,entrepreneurs, companies and network operators.The dissemination media channels available include some or all of the following: Web/Internet-basedmaterial (direct and indirect), articles in professional journals, articles in mass media, TV/radio com-ment, Exhibitions – exhibiting, Conferences – speaking, Conferences - arranging and Closed-group‘invitation only’ briefings.The following sections describe progress made in dissemination achieved between M37 and M48 ofthe project.

1.1. Internet-based activities

This section outlines Internet-based activities undertaken to promote the CONFINE project, initiallydefined in deliverable D5.1.

1.1.1. Maintenance of the internet-based activities

The project website is a publicly-available repository for the project outcomes. The website as inFigure 1.1 has been maintained and kept up to date in year four of the project. It has been used forexample to inform about open calls, publications, events. It includes a Planet section that collectsthe RSS/Atom feeds of different project partners that talk about CONFINE in their respective blogs.Current access statistics are presented in an appendix.

Figure 1.1: The project web site: http://confine-project.eu

The public project wiki in Figure 1.2 has been used for ongoing documents and other less formaland more detailed public information for users of the testbed. External parties can follow the project

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progress and get first hand insight into current activities and decisions. Editing is allowed for au-thorized participants from the initial consortium, open call participants, and even external invitedparticipants. Tutorials and material related to the usage of the Community-Lab testbed have beenupdated during the development process of the testbed.

Figure 1.2: The project wiki: http://wiki.confine-project.eu

The public testbed website as in Figure 1.3 is both a web portal for public information about thetestbed, its availability, links to useful information and overall details, and an entry point to login inthe testbed controller to prepare an experiment, etc. This includes the map with the location of thetestbed nodes embedded in the diverse community networks as shown in the next figure.

The community-lab.net portal also shows graphs that illustrate the level of usage of the testbed at agiven time. The following Figure 1.4 shows the experiments (slices) per group of users. For instancethe large green region on the right corresponds to iMinds, and the experiments iMinds-mlab-NDT-LSand iMinds-mlab-NDT2 that are large in number of slivers (both are installed in all operational nodesin the testbed).

The following Figure 1.5 shows an overall picture of the Research Devices offered in the testbed percontributing organization, and its size proportional to its level of usage (number of slivers).

The following table in Figure 1.6 shows an overall view of the status of resource contribution andconsumption by experiments grouped by user groups that correspond to registered organisations.

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Figure 1.3: The testbed web site: http://community-lab.net

Figure 1.4: Treemap of slices (experiments) per group (organisation) with area corresponding tonumber of slivers (virtual machines running on Research Devices).

1.2. Broader media dissemination activities

Partners in the CONFINE project are regularly appearing in media reports and documentary films.Some recent examples of video materials are at http://confine-project.eu/video/ with contributionsfrom several participants.As part of its dissemination activities, during year three the CONFINE consortium commissioned thewriting of a book on community networks. Authored by noted author Armin Medosch, the book isentitled “The Rise of Network Commons”1.The book returns to the topos of the wireless commons that the author worked on during the early2000s. This new version combines research from the CONFINE project, together with research con-ducted for the author’s previous book – Freie Netze (2004).At the time of this writing, several chapters and a total of 11 articles (blog entries) have been com-pleted, and is publicly available at http://www.thenextlayer.org/node/1231.

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Figure 1.5: Treemap of nodes (Research Devices) per resource provider (organisation) with areacorresponding to number of slivers running in each.

1.3. Project Presentations

The CONFINE project has actively been presented by different project partners to different audiences(such as municipalities, engineering students, politicians, community network activists, industry, gov-ernment, standarisation organisations and computer activists).

Among the main presentations during the last year we have:

• UPC, guifi.net presentation, GAIA workshop Cambridge University, 20-21 October 2014, Cam-bridge.

• UPC presentation, Dagstuhl affordable internet, 16-20 Nov 2014, Saarbrucken.

• guifi.net presentation, Dagstuhl affordable internet, 16-20 Nov 2014, Saarbrucken.

• UPC, guifi.net participation in Go-Local workshop, TIER group, 2-3 Dec 2014, Berkeley.

• UPC, guifi.net participation in GAIA workshop ACM-DEV conference, 2-3 Dec 2014, SanJose.

• UPC, presentation research results in Middleware 2014 conference, 10-12 Dec 2014, Bordeaux.

• UPC, Participation in a workshop with Yochai Benkler on “The Wealth Of Networks”, orga-nized by IGOP/P2P-Value, 25 Feb 2015, Barcelona.

• UPC, presentation research results in European Master in Distributed Computing, Winter event,4-6 Feb 2015, Nuria.

• UPC, participation in NetFutures event, 25 March 2015, Brussels.

• UPC, poster and short paper at the Seventh International Conference on Information and Com-munication Technologies and Development ICTD 2015 conference, 14-18 May 2015, Singa-pore.

• UPC, keynote and several presentations of research results in National workshop in DistributedSystems, 10-12 Jun 2015, Malaga.

• UPC, participation in the Connected Communities workshop (Broadband Europe), 24-25 June2015, Brussels.

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Figure 1.6: Table of groups that can be resource providers (contributing nodes) or resource users(“contributing” or performing experiments).

• guifi.net presentation and discussion about CONFINE results and implications, in the annualguifi.net conference, 11-12 July 2015, Olot.

• iMinds presentation of CONFINE at RIPE NCC and follow up with different communities, 21November 2014, Amsterdam

• iMinds presentation of two papers at IM 2015, 11-15 May 2015, Ottawa

• iMinds presentation of community networks at RIPE70 (700 registered attendees), 11-15 May2015, Amsterdam.

• iMinds presentation of two papers at CNBuB ’15, 26 August 2015, Rome

• Fraunhofer FKIE presentation of one paper at CNBuB ’15, 26 August 2015, Rome

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1.4. Scientific Publications

Conferences and journals are considered to be an important means to disseminate the project’s knowl-edge to the scientific community. With the consolidation of results, CONFINE aims at publishing itsresults at major scientific international conferences, workshops and journals. For the initial resultson the Community-Lab testbed development of the second year, workshops and conferences weretargeted. In the following the academic papers accepted for publication are listed:

Authors Title PublicationA. Neumann, Lopez, E.,and Navarro, L.

Evaluation of mesh routing protocolsfor wireless community networks

Computer Networks, 2015.

R. Baig, Roca, R., Freitag,F., and Navarro, L.

guifi.net, a crowdsourced network in-frastructure held in common

Computer Networks, 2015.

L. Baldesi, L. Maccari, R.Lo Cigno

Improving P2P Streaming in WirelessCommunity Networks

Computer Networks, 2015.

M. Selimi, Amin M. Khan,E. Dimogerontakis, F. Fre-itag, R. Pueyo

Cloud Services in the Guifi.net Com-munity Network

Computer Networks, 2015.

C. Barz, C. Fuchs, J. Kirch-hoff, J. Niewiejska, H.Rogge

OLSRv2 for Community Networks:Using Directional Airtime Metric withExternal Radios

Computer Networks, 2015.

P. Millan, C. Molina,E. Medina, D. Vega, R.Meseguer, B. Braem, C.Blondia

Time Series Analysis to Predict LinkQuality of Wireless Community Net-works

Computer Networks, 2015.

D. Vega, Meseguer, R., Fre-itag, F., and Ochoa, S. F.

Motivating the non-technical participa-tion in technical communities

XIII Jornadas de Concurren-cia y Sistemas Distribuidos(JCSD’15), Malaga, Spain,2015.

Y. Liu, Rameshan, N.,Monte, E., Navarro, L., andVlassov, V.

ProRenaTa: Proactive and ReactiveTuning to Scale a Distributed StorageSystem

CCGrid 2015, 2015.

D. Vega, Meseguer, R., andFreitag, F.

Analysis of the Social Effort in Multi-plex Participatory Networks

Economics of Grids, Clouds,Systems, and Services, vol.8914, J. Altmann, Vanmeche-len, K., and Rana, O. F.Springer International Publish-ing, 2014, pp. 67-79.

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R. Meseguer, Molina, C.,Ochoa, S. F., and Santos, R.

Energy-Aware Topology Control Strat-egy for Human-Centric Wireless Sen-sor Networks

Sensors, vol. 14, pp. 2619-2643, 2014.

D. Vega, Meseguer, R.,Cabrera, G., and Marques,J. Manuel

Exploring local service allocation inCommunity Networks

Wireless and Mobile Comput-ing, Networking and Commu-nications (WiMob), 2014 IEEE10th International Conferenceon, 2014.

A. Monares, Ochoa, S. F.,Santos, R., Orozco, J., andMeseguer, R.

Modeling IoT-Based Solutions UsingHuman-Centric Wireless Sensor Net-works

Sensors, vol. 14, no. 9, pp.15687-15713, 2014.

N. Rameshan, Navarro, L.,Monte, E., and Vlassov, V.

Stay-Away, protecting sensitive appli-cations from performance interference

ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middle-ware 2014, 2014.

P. Millan, Molina, C., Med-ina, E., Vega, D., Meseguer,R., Braem, B., and Blondia,C.

Tracking and predicting link quality inwireless community networks

Wireless and Mobile Comput-ing, Networking and Commu-nications (WiMob), 2014 IEEE10th International Conferenceon, 2014.

A. Abujoda, A. Sathiasee-lan, A. Rizk, P. Papadim-itriou

Software-Defined Crowd-Shared Wire-less Mesh Networks

Wireless and Mobile Comput-ing, Networking and Commu-nications (WiMob), 2014 IEEE10th International Conferenceon, 2014.

L. Baldesi, L. Maccari, R.Lo Cigno

Improving P2P Streaming inCommunity-Lab Through LocalStrategies

Wireless and Mobile Comput-ing, Networking and Commu-nications (WiMob), 2014 IEEE10th International Conferenceon, 2014.

P. Millan, Molina, C.,Meseguer, R., Ochoa, S. F.,and Santos, R.

Using a History-Based Approach toPredict Topology Control Informationin Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Internet and Distributed Com-puting Systems, vol. 8729,Springer International Publish-ing, 2014, pp. 237-249.

P. Escrich, Baig, R., Di-mogerontakis, E., Carbo,E., Neumann, A., Fonseca,A., Freitag, F., and Navarro,L.

WiBed, a platform for commoditywireless testbeds

Wireless and Mobile Comput-ing, Networking and Commu-nications (WiMob), 2014 IEEE10th International Conferenceon, 2014, pp. 85-91.

Braem B., Blondia C., LatreS.

Experiences from building an outdoortestbed for community wireless net-works

14th IFIP/IEEE Symposium onIntegrated Network and Ser-vice Management, 2015, pp 1-4.

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Braem B., Avonts J., Blon-dia C., Latre S.

Testing a community network testbedcontrol system

14th IFIP/IEEE Symposium onIntegrated Network and Ser-vice Management, 2015, pp 5-11.

Braem B., Bergs J., BlondiaC.

Comparing community networks to theInternet : an empirical study of BGPbehaviour

FiCloud 2015 : the 3rd Inter-national Conference on FutureInternet of Things and Cloud,2015, p. 788-793

Marin G., Navarro L.,Braem B., Blondia C.

Federation tools : an island connectiv-ity experiment with community-lab

FiCloud 2015 : the 3rd Inter-national Conference on FutureInternet of Things and Cloud,2015, p. 776-781

L. Cerda-Alabern, A. Neu-mann, L. Maccari

Experimental Evaluation of BMX6Routing Metrics in a 802.11an WirelessCommunity Mesh Network

FiCloud 2015 : the 3rd Inter-national Conference on FutureInternet of Things and Cloud,2015

P. Millan, C. Molina, E. Di-mogerontakis, L. Navarro,R. Meseguer, B. Braem, C.Blondia

Tracking and Predicting End-to-EndQuality in Wireless Community Net-works

FiCloud 2015 : the 3rd Inter-national Conference on FutureInternet of Things and Cloud,2015

J. Kirchhoff, J. Niewiejska,C. Fuchs, C. Barz, H. Rogge

Multicast Performance Comparison ofSMF and ODMRP using the CONFINETestbed

FiCloud 2015 : the 3rd Inter-national Conference on FutureInternet of Things and Cloud,2015

N. Apolonia, R. Sedar, F.Freitag, L. Navarro

Leveraging Low-power Devices forCloud Services in Community Net-works

FiCloud 2015 : the 3rd Inter-national Conference on FutureInternet of Things and Cloud,2015

D. Vega, M. Magnani, R.Meseguer, F. Freitag

Role and position detection in net-works: reloaded

The 2015 IEEE/ACM Interna-tional Conference on Advancesin Social Networks Analysisand Mining (ASONAM 2015)

R. Baig, F. Freitag, A. Moll,L. Navarro, R. Pueyo, V.Vlassov

Community Network Clouds as a Casefor the IEEE Intercloud Standardization

accepted for publication inIEEE Conference on Standardsfor Communications and Net-working (CSCN 2015)

R. Baig, F. Freitag, A.M.Khan, A. Moll, L. Navarro,R. Pueyo, V. Vlassov

Community Clouds at the Edge de-ployed in Guifi.net

accepted for publication in 4thIEEE International Conferenceon Cloud Networking (Cloud-Net 2015)

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A.M. Khan, F. Freitag, L.Rodriguez

Current Trends and Future Directionsin Community Edge Clouds

accepted for publication in 4thIEEE International Conferenceon Cloud Networking (Cloud-Net 2015)

R. Baig, F. Freitag, L.Navarro

On the Sustainability of CommunityClouds in Guifi.net

accepted for publication inthe 12th International Confer-ence on Economics of Grids,Clouds, Systems and Services(GECON 2015)

A.M. Khan, X. Vilaca, L.Rodriguez, F. Freitag

Towards Incentive-Compatible Pricingfor Bandwidth Reservation in Commu-nity Network Clouds

accepted for publication inthe 12th International Confer-ence on Economics of Grids,Clouds, Systems and Services(GECON 2015)

M. Selimi, N. Apolonia, F.Olid, F. Freitag, L. Navarro,A. Moll, R. Pueyo, L. Veiga

Integration of Assisted P2P LiveStreaming Service in CommunityNetwork Clouds

accepted for publication in the7th IEEE International Con-ference on Cloud Comput-ing Technology and Science(CloudCom 2015)

Table 1.1: Scientific Publications in year 4

1.4.1. Special issue on Community Networks in the Computer Networks Journal

A special issue on community networks in the prestigious Elsevier Computer Networks research jour-nal to be published in the last months of 2015 has been prepared. Guest editors from the CONFINEconsortium who organized this SI were Bart Braem (iMinds), Roger Baig (Guifi.net) and Felix Freitag(UPC). The special issue called for extended versions of papers presented at the CNBuB workshopsand was open for research papers on community networks from external researchers. We received 27submissions. Two review rounds with at least three reviews per paper were carried out. Finally, 10papers were accepted for publication. Final paper versions are submitted by the authors in September2015 to become preprints on-line available in 2015 and published together as a special issue with aneditorial note from the guest editors.

1.5. Major hosted, organized and attended events

CNBuB, Battlemesh and GAIA are the main events where the CONFINE consortium took a mainrole this year.It is worth noting that the three events target different audiences. All of them have global scopeand participation. Battlemesh is attended primarily by developers and community activists, CNBuBhas an academic focus, and GAIA has a very diverse audience, including industry, social groups,developers beyond the community networking domain.For CONFINE, each of the three groups are important target audiences for the dissemination of theproject. It is therefore anticipated that CONFINE members will keep attending and contributing toeach of the venues in the future.

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Figure 1.7: Call for papers, special issue Elsevier Computer Networks Journal

1.5.1. CNBuB - International Workshop on Community Networks andBottom-Up-Broadband

Following the success of the CONFINE-organised CNBuB 2012 (Barcelona), CNBuB 2013 (Lyon),CNBuB 20142 was held on October 8th 2014 in Larnaca, Cyprus, co-located with the 10th IEEEWiMob conference (Figure 1.10). CNBuB 20153 was held on August 26th 2015 in Rome, Italy(Figure 1.11). This fourth edition, instead of being co-located with the WiMob conference as in thefirst three editions, was colocated with FiCloud 2015, The 3rd International Conference on FutureInternet of Things and Cloud.

Figure 1.8: CNBuB 2014 web page

2See Figure 1.8, http://research.ac.upc.edu/CNBuB2014/3See Figure 1.9 http://research.ac.upc.edu/CNBuB2015/

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Figure 1.9: CNBuB 2015 web page

The colocation of the CNBuB workshops with major conferences brought research issues of commu-nity networks to a broader research audience. In CNBuB 2015, 6 scientific papers were presented, a33% acceptance rate. The workshop was attended by approximately 25 people.

Figure 1.10: The CNBuB 2014 venue, during a CONFINE presentation

Figure 1.11: The CNBuB 2015 venue, during a CONFINE presentation

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1.5.2. BATTLEMESH v8

As previously with the Battlemesh v5, v64 and v75, CONFINE members participated in the Bat-tlemesh in Maribor in August 2015 (see Figure 1.12). The event was also co-sponsored by CONFINEthrough equipment support (15 wireless routers) and personal effort from UPC and guifi.net (partic-ipants, presenters and testbed development and deployment) in setting up a local WiBed installationfor the experiments there. Among 18 communities represented and seven days of activities. Progressfrom the project was presented to participating activists representing community networks from Eu-rope and overseas.

Figure 1.12: Final session of the WBMv8, Maribor, Slovenia

Specifically the following activities were done in WBMv8: Presentation of the WiBed testbed forWiFi experiments (E. Dimogerontakis, I. Zavalishin UPC). Advances in BMX6 (A. Neumann, UPC).Experiments with multipath TCP and VPN on top (C. Pisa, CNIT and Ninux.org), NetJSON (F.Capoano, Ninux.org). Advances in OLSR2 (H. Rogge). As with previous year, the event has used theCONFINE testbed, specifically the WiBed component of the testbed for testing in a campus network,a smaller and more controlled environment than the rest of nodes embedded in community networks.As in previous editions, participation in the Battlemesh has created opportunities for direct contactwith numerous developers of community network software (e.g. OpenWRT and mesh routing proto-cols), raising awareness and interest amongst this audience.

1.5.3. GECON 2015 - Track 3. Community Nets and the Sharing Economy

In the 2015 edition of GECON6 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 15-17th September 2015, a new trackon community networks and the sharing economy was included, co-chaired by Felix Freitag (UPC)and Drazen Lucanin, Vienna University of Technology, Austria (see Figure 1.13). It shows howthrough the CONFINE project the research on community networks has become now part of researchconferences.

4http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV6/5http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV7/6http://www.gecon-conference.org/gecon2015/

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Figure 1.13: Announcement of GECON2015 track in Community Networks and the SharingEconomy

1.5.4. WONS 2016 Special Track on Community Networks and Services

Another example is the Special Track on Community Networks and Services in WONS 20167 inCortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, 20-22 January 2016, organized by Leonardo Maccari from the Universityof Trento. University of Trento was Open Call 1 partner in the CONFINE project.

1.5.5. GAIA working group and workshops

The Global Access to the Internet for All (GAIA) working group is an activity of the IRTF, chaired byArjuna Sathiaseelan (University of Cambridge), a CONFINE OC2 partner, and Matthew Ford (ISOC).It currently has 305 members (as mailing list subscribers) from industry, academia, non-profits andinterested individuals around the world.The WG has held several meetings all with CONFINE participation and presentations: 1st in IETF89 London 6/3/2014, 2nd in Cambridge Computer Lab 20-21/10/2014, 3rd in ACMDEV conferencein San Jose 4/12/2014 (see Figure 1.14), 4th in IETF-93 in Prague 22/7/2015. This has created awide awareness and discussion of the project activities and its partners all over the world. The WGhas produced, for over about a year of elaboration with contributions from GAIA WG members andcoauthored by several CONFINE members, an informational document about community networksand related infrastructures: “draft-irtf-gaia-alternative-network-deployments” with two published re-visions, the last in July 20158.

1.5.6. Broadband Europe - Connected Communities

The Connected Communities initiative is is part of the “Connected Digital Single Market” where aDigital Single Market and Broadband Infrastructure Investment are among the top priorities in theperiod of 2014-2020, with extensive actions in policy, regulation and financing. As a reference, the

7http://2016.wons-conference.org/8https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-irtf-gaia-alternative-network-deployments/

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Figure 1.14: The GAIA WG one day meeting in San Jose (USA) co-located with ACMDEV 2014.

planned public financing for investment needs to mobilise development where the market cannotdeliver is enormous. The main EU Financial Instruments for digital infrastructure in 2014-2020 are:

Figure 1.15: The DGCONNECT Connected Communities workshop in Brussels 25/6/2015

• European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) will invest in broadband and other digitalnetworks (estimated near e6Bn of ERDF)

• Connecting Europe Facility (CEF): complementary EU support (e150M) by means of financialinstruments

• European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) - Juncker’s Investment Plan with e16Bn EUguarantee

Although community networking is one of the considered models of development, this initiative iscritical for the impact and future sustainability of our work in CONFINE.

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1.6. Related events with project participants 1. Dissemination activities

CONFINE participated through UPC, guifi.net, and Sarantaporo.gr, in the recent Connected Commu-nities ’Experience Sharing’ Workshop in Brussels on the 25-26 of June 2015 (see Figure 1.15), andalso participates in the ongoing discussion forums that are part of the initiative where the activities andlessons learned in CONFINE are being shared to develop sustainable models for Broadband access toall in Europe.

1.6. Related events with project participants

1.6.1. SAX 2015 meeting

The guifi.net Foundation in collaboration with the Summer Camp Garrotxa organized the yearly SAXworkshop during the weekend of 10-12 of July 2015 in Olot, Girona. The event was also broadcastedlive on guifi TV9. Participants (85 local and many remote) came mostly from the guifi.net communitybut also from established and emerging Community Networks in other countries.

Figure 1.16: The SAX 2015 meeting, talk and discussion about EU projects, 11/7/2015

There were presentations about the evolution of the social, economic, legal and technological frame-work in the last year affecting community networks such as guifi.net. The common-pool resourcemodel for community networks was presented and discussed, with a specific discussion on the ex-perience in the last year around the conflict resolution mechanism, and the economic compensation.One presentation and debate discussed the support provided by national regulation agency, the localgovernment role in the regulation of access to public space and infrastructures, and the role of EU in-stitutions on the aspects of regulation and promotion of Broadband access infrastructures. There wasa presentation and balance on the experience of guifi.net in European research and innovation projectsand pilots such as Confine, Clommunity, BuB4EU, as well as future opportunities in the FIRE, CAPSor Broadband Europe (see Figure 1.16). There was a discussion on how to complement network in-frastructure with application services like web proxies, voice over IP, and community cloud servicesin the domain of cloud file and backup storage, video streaming, live streaming, service discovery.

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1.6.2. Athens Wireless Summit 2015

Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network (AWMN) in collaboration with Greek Free/Open Source Soft-ware Society (GFOSS) and Sarantaporo.gr Non Profit Association organized a two day event titled“Athens Wireless Summit 2015”. It took place during the weekend of the 26th and 27th of September2015 at Impact Hub Athens.The Athens Wireless Summit 2015 was a two day International event which aimed to bring peopletogether, from the academia, the world of commons, open source, wireless networks communities andall those involved or interested in wireless network technologies; in order to meet with each other,exchange views, experiences, explore possibilities for cooperation and synergies and to promote thebenefits of developing modern telecommunication infrastructures as an enhancement factor for theirregion.It included presentations, discussions, workshops, social events and exhibitions of wireless networktechnologies, the development of network infrastructures and shared services, the promotion of thesocial character on developing Community networks by citizens for citizens as well as developingnetworks of active people around these; with examples like the cooperation structures that exist orcan be developed between these communities in Greece and abroad.

1.7. Open-source software

The project relies heavily on open source software. Moreover, the project partners agreed in theDescription of Work to prefer sharing software. Due to using open source software licenses, andfollowing the consortium agreement, most software has been published immediately in a publiclyaccessible code repository at Redmine10 repository administered by the CONFINE partner Pangea. Abackup version is hosted in Github11. For the node DB and related tools, there is a separate repositoryon Github12. The software is publicly available for download.

10http://redmine.confine-project.eu/11https://github.com/confine-project/12https://github.com/FFM/

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2. Training activities

During the fourth year, as had been the case in previous years, UPC did a few academic presenta-tions of CONFINE. These included presentations of the Community-Lab testbed to several studentgroups, among others computer science students from UPC, students from the Erasmus Mundus Mas-ter in Distributed Computing1 and ¡ students from the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate in DistributedComputing2.One Master course carried out during the last semester included experiments made on the Community-Lab testbed (the WiBed campus network). Different aspects of community networks are researchedin on-going PhD theses which include experiments on the Community-Lab testbed.Similar to UPC, iMinds gave academic presentations on CONFINE to its Master students, both thelocal Flemish students and students in the international research Master on Computer Science. On-going research activities within iMinds are being influenced and driven by the outputs of CONFINE,including advanced mesh networking.

2.1. Summer Course at Mekelle Institute of Technology

In July 2015 CONFINE participated in a project promoted by the Centre de Cooperacio per al De-senvolupament3 (Cooperation for Development Centre) at UPC. The project consisted of giving a30 hours course entitled “Linux Routers and Community Networks”, and deploying a WiFi meshnetwork in the Campus of Mekelle Institute of Technology (MIT), Ethiopia 4.

Figure 2.1: Course at Mekelle Institute of Technology, Ethiopia.

The course was given by one professor participating in CONFINE and the project contributed provid-ing 4 outdoor routers (Ubiquiti Nanostations). The expertise acquired during the CONFINE project

1http://kth.se/emdc2http://emjd-dc.eu3http://www.upc.edu/ccd4http://www.mitethiopia.edu.et

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was put into practice, focusing the course on Community Networks. The course was very practical,which was very appreciated by the students and professors from MIT attending the course. After thecourse, the devices used in the laboratories were used to deploy a wireless mesh community networkin the Campus to provide WiFi access, a service that was missing before the course. 5

5More details about this activity: http://dsg.ac.upc.edu/mekelle2015

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3. Standardization activities

Standardization activities are a key area of focus for CONFINE since the consortium has direct inputinto the development of industry standards. The following activities have been done in year four.

In year 4 of the project, the following standardization efforts have been pursued in the IETF MANETWG:

The standardization of DLEP has been pushed forward based on the input of the DLEP Design Teamwhich included Fraunhofer FKIE. The new input was put into a series of new drafts. Since June 2015there have also been reviews by external people including one of the Routing Area directors, whichresulted in DLEP draft 151 on July 6th 2015.

Current discussion moved to the area of security. While most people in the IETF MANET group whohelp with the development of DLEP do not see any reason for heavy security mechanisms for thecommunication between Radio and Router, the Security Area Director suggested making the usage ofTLS mandatory for standard a compliant DLEP implementation. There has already been some workon supporting Transport Layer Security (TLS) in the upcoming DLEP Draft 16, but there has beenstrong resistance in the MANET group to make it mandatory. Currently, it is not clear how this issuewill be resolved.

The Directional Airtime Metric draft2 by the Fraunhofer FKIE received a minor update in April 2015.There has been a review of the one of the MANET group chairs during the IETF Meeting in Praguewhich was added as non-normative text and an additional appendix in end of July. On 1st September2015 the draft was forwarded to the IESG. This means that the work within the MANET group hasbeen completed and the draft is waiting for action by the steering group.

The Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) version 23 has been designed as a successor in a modularway, decoupling the Neighborhood Discovery Protocol4 (NHDP) from the actual routing protocol.One of the advantages is that the neighborhood discovery can be reused by other protocols like Sim-plified Multicast Forwarding5 (SMF). SMF can benefit from NHDP in terms of more efficiency thanthe simple flooding mode. The OLSRv2 multi-topology draft6 has passed last call too and is waitingfor a reaction from the IESG.

With the help of Fraunhofer FKIE a couple of major obstacles regarding the RFC5444 packet formatencoding have been resolved in the AODVv2 draft7, but there are still other issues that block the draftfrom last call.

Fraunhofer FKIE has also started to participate in the new RFC5444-usage draft8, which explains thedesigns behind RFC5444 in detail and explain how to use the packet format to protocol designers.The first private version of this draft has been released at the end of May 2015 and was accepted as a

1https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-manet-dlep-152https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-manet-olsrv2-dat-metric-063http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-manet-olsrv2-19/4http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6130/5http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6621/6http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-manet-olsrv2-multitopology-067https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-manet-aodvv2-118http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-manet-rfc5444-usage-00

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Working Group draft on the following IETF in Prague.The MANET working group has been discussing a re-charter, focusing more on extending the currentprotocols and looking deeper into configuration issues and multicast traffic in the future.As described previously, the GAIA IRTF working group has produced a Draft IRTF document withseveral CONFINE authors about community networks and related infrastructures: “draft-irtf-gaia-alternative-network-deployments” with two published revisions, the last in July 20159.BMX6 and BMX710 are evolutions of the original BATMAN routing protocol that incorporate newand unconventional approaches for disseminating and handling node-individual requirements andpreferences between routers of a community network infrastructure. BMX6 already provides theconcepts (and an actively used implementation) to let individual node administrators dynamically andindependently define the metric for routing their traffic. With BMX7 the protocol has been substan-tially redesigned for cleaner structuring of the data model, packet format, and message processing andto support new security features such as node authentication, next-hop validation, and entrusted multitopology routing. BMX7 has been implemented and published under the GPL license at bmx6.net andgithub.com and is provided as an OpenWrt routing package that has successfully participated in thecollective routing-protocol experiments executed at the 2015 Wireless Battle of the Mesh (WBMv8)conference in Maribor. Since the event, this new implementation has also been experimentally inte-grated in the qmp.cat and libre-mesh.org wireless firmware projects. In the future we plan to stan-dardize the core protocol components via an experimental RFC.

9https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-irtf-gaia-alternative-network-deployments/10http://bmx6.net/

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4. Concertation activities

4.1. Participation in EU activities

The project has collaborated with many other research activities. To name a few of the most relevant:FIRE Board (and FIRE Steering board), Federica for network interconnection, Clommunity aroundcommunity clouds, the Measurement-Lab global testbed and project, OpenAIRE around open accessto documents and open data sets, Commons for Europe and P2P-value on commons models, DCENTon digital social innovation, and M-Lab on global network measurements and open data sets.CONFINE initially used the FEDERICA infrastructure1 to interconnect the various testbed sites. Nowthe Community-Lab testbed is using the Geant production L2/L3 VPN service, provided by RedIRIS.This VPN connects separate islands in Europe (UPC, Guifi.net, iMinds, Fraunhofer) complementedwith a coordinated set of IP-IP tunnels among AWMN, Guifi.net and FunkFeuer.UPC participates in the FIRE Board/Steering group, representing CONFINE and Community-Lab.net, and coordinating with other testbeds for experimentation in Future Internet.Broadband Europe – Connected Communities: guifi.net, sarantaporo.gr and UPC are involved in thisDG CONNECT initiative that is key for the sustainability for citizen access to broadband and forcommunity networks as an infrastructure development model.CONFINE, represented by iMinds, has also been involved with the OpenAIRE project, a EuropeanFP7 project which focuses on open access infrastructure for European research. An open access pub-lication strategy has been developed with OpenAIRE, while information and advice was exchangedon publication dissemination. CONFINE was featured in the November 2013 OpenAIRE newsletter.A collaboration with the Measurement Lab (M-Lab), between iMinds and OTI (OC2 partner) has al-lowed to setup one of the largest experiments in Community-Lab, where all research devices performand contribute to M-Lab measurements about Internet access of the involved community networks.This has allowed comparisons between community networks and other ISPs.

4.2. Interaction and synergies with other initiatives

There is an excellent ongoing interaction with developers of OpenWRT initiative2. OpenWRTdevelopers participated in CONFINE developer meetings and are subscribed to the confine-devel@pangea.org mailing list. The OpenWRT Linux distribution is the base on which the com-munity device and research device software of CONFINE is built upon. Some of the customizeddevelopments for CONFINE, like LXC, have provided feedback to OpenWRT.

1http://www.fp7-federica.eu/2https://openwrt.org/

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5. Conclusions

As was the case in the first three years of the project, the CONFINE team has performed severalkey dissemination, training, standardization and concertation activities in the fourth year that havesuccessfully addressed different stakeholders: from researchers in the technology and social context,students, industry, social groups, governments at the European and global scope, in developed anddeveloping areas.In summary, the time is ripe for community networking infrastructures to provide mature ways toconnect everyone in a sustainable manner. The CONFINE team has made major efforts and contribu-tions to understand, develop and evaluate technologies and models through experimentation, as wellas show, define and coordinate how communities can empower themselves to be online.

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A. Annex

A.1. Web statistics: visits to the confine-project.eu site

In the following the statistics1 from the CONFINE confine-project.eu web site, not including thewiki.confine-project.eu or community-lab.net web site, are presented.The following table A.1 shows the page views by targeted URL (top 15 in number of pageviews).

Table A.1: Page views by targeted URL (top 15)Page URL Number of views/index 17342012 353project-partners 2192014 179publications 162project-details 147open-call-2 143related-publications 68category 56open-call-1 40video 38oc2-general-info 342013 19faq-open-call-2 15open-calls 15

The next two tables show the number of visits and actions per top countries in table A.2 and bycontinent in table A.3. Most visits came from Europe. However, there was a significant number ofvisits also from other continents, from a total of 74 countriesFinally, the subsequent table A.4 shows the number of visits and actions by HTTP referer links byHTTP referer (top 40). Please note that the top referer is EC related (ict-fire.eu), followed by projectpartners and CONFINE related event sites. with 873 direct visits, 797 from search engines and 474from other web sites.

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Table A.2: Top countries in number of visitsCountries VisitsUnited States 551Spain 281Greece 172Germany 169United Kingdom 119Italy 103Russian Federation 82France 70Brazil 49

Table A.3: Top continents in number of visitsContinents VisitsEurope 1270North America 559Asia 102Unknown 85South America 82Africa 32Oceania 13Central America 1

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Table A.4: Top referer linksSource VisitsKeyword not defined 762www.ict-fire.eu 64ranksonic.info 55semalt.semalt.com 42itc.ua 39wiki.confine-project.eu 20www.ikt.uni-hannover.de 16battlemesh.org 14graz.funkfeuer.at 14thenextlayer.org 13www.nesta.org.uk 13people.ac.upc.edu 12www.thenextlayer.org 9dsg.ac.upc.edu 8facebook.com 7confine 6http://confine-project.eu/ 6pangea.org 6redmine.confine-project.eu 5community-lab.net 4

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