Supporting cloud deployment in the Guifi.net community network

Author

Jimenez, Joaquin ; Baig, Roger ; Escrich, Pau ; Khan, Adnan M. ; Freitag, Felix ; Navarro, L. ; Pietrosemoli, Ermanno ; Zennaro, Marco ; Payberah, Amir H. ; Vlassov, Vladimir

Author_Institution

Fundacio Privada per la Xarxa Lliure, Oberta i Neural Guifi.net. Mas l´Esperana, Barcelona, Spain

fYear

2013

fDate

28-31 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Community networking is an emerging model of a shared communication infrastructure in which communities of citizens build and own open networks. Community networks offer successfully IP-based networking to the user. Cloud computing infrastructures however, while common in today´s Internet, hardy exist in community networks. We explain our approach to bring clouds into the Guifi.net community network. For this we have started integrating part of our cloud prototype into the Guifi.net community network management tools. A proof-of-concept cloud infrastructure is currently under deployment in the Guifi.net community network. Our long term vision is that the users of community networks will not need to consume cloud applications from the Internet, but find them within the community network.

Keywords

IP networks; Internet; cloud computing; Guifi.net community network management tools; IP-based networking; Internet; cloud computing infrastructures; cloud deployment; open networks; proof-of-concept cloud infrastructure; shared communication infrastructure; Cloud computing; Communities; Operating systems; Prototypes; Virtual machining; cloud computing; community networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Information Infrastructure Symposium, 2013

Conference_Location

Trento

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GIIS.2013.6684361

Filename

6684361