Felix Freitag

TL;DR: This paper makes a case for research on and with community networks, while explaining the relation to Community-Lab, an open, distributed infrastructure for researchers to experiment withcommunity networks.

TL;DR: This paper discusses the case of guifi.net, a success case of a community network daily used by thousands of participants, focusing on its principles and the crowdsourcing processes and tools developed within the community, and the role they play in the ecosystem that is guFi.net.

TL;DR: A two-layer architecture for service discovery in Application Layer Networks (ALN) consisting of a service market in which complex services are translated to a set of basic services, which are distinguished by price and availability is proposed.

TL;DR: This work discusses two techniques that executes modified guest OSs: operating system-level virtualization and para-virtualization and presents a summary of resource management facilities for capacity planning and consolidation of server applications.

TL;DR: A framework for building a collaborative distributed community cloud system that employs resources contributed by the members of the community network for provisioning infrastructure and software services is proposed, tailored to the specific social, economic, and technical characteristics of community networks and requirements for community clouds.