Hi all.
I have recently "discovered" the concept of Community Networks. They are "large scale, self-organized and decentralized networks, built and operated by citizens for citizens." They are "also self-owned and self-managed by community members, self-growing in links, capacity and services provided." A paper explaining them can be found here: <http://www.sigcomm.org/ccr/papers/2013/July/2500098.2500108> http://www.sigcomm.org/ccr/papers/2013/July/2500098.2500108 Some examples: <http://funkfeuer.at/> http://funkfeuer.at/ https://wlan-si.net/ http://www.bogota-mesh.org/en I would like to know your opinion about this: do you think this is a good idea? Can they be a good place for developing experiments? I think this can be a good solution for developing countries. In addition, regarding TCM-TF, can they be a new scenario where traffic optimization could be interesting? I mean, they do not have too much bandwidth, and they connect to the Internet through a single link in many cases (a bottleneck). One of the services considered is VoIP. Thanks a lot! Jose
