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Dissemination, training, standardization activities in year 2

Deliverable/Milestone: D5.4

Date: 17 September 2013

Version: 1.0

D5.4 Dissemination, training, standardization activities in year 2

Editor: Christoph Barz (FKIE)

Deliverable nature: Report (R)

Dissemination level: Public (PU)

Contractual Delivery Date:

15/11/2013

Actual Delivery Date

Suggested Readers: Project partners

Number of pages: 39

Keywords: dissemination, training, standardization

Authors:

Peer review:

Christoph Barz (FKIE)Felix Freitag (UPC)Blaine Tatum (OPLAN)Bart Braem (iMinds)L. Aaron Kaplan (Funkfeuer)Joseph Bonicioli (AWMN)

Leandro Navarro, Roc Meseguer

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This document describes progress achieved between M13 and M24 regarding the CONFINE project’s dissemination, training, and standardization activities. This deliverable D5.4 supplements deliverable D5.3 which describes the progress until M12.

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Execu t ive Sum m ary In Work Package five, (WP5), the CONFINE consortium carries out dissemination, training and standardization activities in order to promote the project results.

The strategy underlying the dissemination activities is to reach in an effective way, a broad audience and large number of stakeholders. Dissemination is supported by a set of information, coordination and knowledge management tools. At the beginning of the project, a public website, a public Wiki and a CONFINE leaflet were created. They have been regularly updated with news and technical information on the evolution of the project. During the second year of the project, scientific and technical project results have been published and presented to different kinds of audiences, including researchers, industry, citizens, and governments. The CONFINE project organized the scientific international workshop on community networks (CNBuB 2012 and CNBuB 2013), co-located with the IEEE WiMob 2012 and 2013 Conferences. CONFINE also hosted and co-organized the International Summit for Community Wireless Networks (IS4CWN 2012), the leading international event for community network activists.

CONFINE promoted its first open call for projects in different ways in order to reach a widespread audience of researchers interested in experimental research in community networking using the Community-Lab testbed. The open call was presented by CONFINE members at several conferences. It was announced in several newspapers and journals. A total of 36 applications were received before the deadline expired. Applications came mainly from academia, but also from SMEs and other communities, nearly all of them from Europe, with one from New Zealand and another indirectly from Venezuela. After the selection process based on 24 independent experts, five new participants with experiments have joined the project.

The second open call, with the largest share (75%) of the budget for open calls opens from September 2nd to October 19th 2013. It has been promoted similarly to the first open call. Two categories of activities are expected: A) Innovative experiments with the testbed, and B) Innovative expansion of the testbed to other community networks.

The training activities in the second year of the project extended their effort to the support of the five new partners selected in the open call. By means of generic Web based tutorials and specific support through email and video conferencing each new partner was helped to get started with the tools of the Confine project. Other training activities that already started in the first year continued and were intensified, such as the demonstration of the Community-Lab testbed at several conferences and gatherings. Within the academic activity, experiments in the Community-Lab testbed were carried out in several Master theses. Community-Lab has also been brought into on-going PhD theses which investigate different research questions of the testbed.

The project contributed to standardization bodies with developments and results obtained from the building of the experimental facility. CONFINE partner FKIE contributed its work on DLEP (Dynamic Link Exchange Protocol) and OLSRv2 (Optimized Link State Routing version 2) to the IETF Mobile Ad hoc Network Working Group protocol. Furthermore, the consortium has played a significant role in the OLSR (Optimised Link State Routing) protocol standardization process.

This document builds upon and updates deliverable D5.3.

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Tab le o f Con t ent s1. DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES ............................................................................................................. 5

1.1. INTERNET-BASED ACTIVITIES ......................................................................................................... 5 1.2. BROADER MEDIA DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES ............................................................................. 6 1.3. CONFINE PRESENTATIONS ............................................................................................................. 6 1.4. SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS ............................................................................................................. 8 1.5. MAJOR CONFINE-HOSTED, ORGANIZED AND ATTENDED EVENTS ............................................... 9 1.6. OPEN CALL ORGANIZATION ......................................................................................................... 11 1.7. OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE .......................................................................................................... 15

2. TRAINING ACTIVITIES ...................................................................................................................... 16

3. STANDARDIZATION ACTIVITIES ...................................................................................................... 17

3.1. STANDARDIZATION ACTIVITIES IN YEAR 2 ................................................................................... 18

4. CONCERTATION ACTIVITIES ............................................................................................................ 20

4.1. PARTICIPATION IN CONCERTATION ACTIVITIES .......................................................................... 20 4.2. INTERACTION AND SYNERGIES WITH EU MULTIDISCIPLINARY INITIATIVES ............................... 20

5. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS .................................................................................... 22

6. APPENDIX ........................................................................................................................................ 23

6.1. OPEN CALL 2 ANNOUNCEMENTS ................................................................................................ 23 6.2. OPEN CALL 2 WEB PAGE .............................................................................................................. 27 6.3. MAILING LISTS AND WEBS FOR OPEN CALL 2 PROMOTION ....................................................... 30 6.4. STATISTIC OF VISITS OF CONFINE WEB SERVER .......................................................................... 33 6.5. LETTER OF SUPPORT FOR RELATED PROJECT PROPOSALS .......................................................... 37

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1. DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

Dissemination of CONFINE activities aims at reaching a broad spectrum of social groups. Among the targets are: the community networks in Europe and other initiatives overseas, the scientific 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‐based material (direct and indirect), articles in professional journals, articles in mass media, TV/radio comment, Exhibitions – exhibiting, Conferences – speaking, Conferences ‐ arranging and Closed‐group ‘invitation only’ briefings.

The following sections describe progress made in dissemination achieved between M13 and M24 of the project.

1.1. INTERNET-BASED ACTIVITIES

This section outlines Internet-based activities undertaken to promote the CONFINE project. Further details are given in deliverable D5.1. Besides maintaining the activities started in year 1 a feed aggregator and several blogs have been newly established to provide the community with recent progress updates. This has been identified as a crucial means for keeping the community involved in the project.

1.1.1. MAINTAINANCE OF THE INTERNET-BASED ACTIVITIES FROM YEAR 1

The website of the CONFINE project1 is a publicly-available repository for CONFINE material. The website hast been maintained and kept up to date in year 2 of the project. It has been used for example to inform about the second open call. The CONFINE web site includes all open call documentation. Current access statistics are presented in the appendix (section 6.4).

1.1.2. FEED AGGREGATOR

The public CONFINE Wiki has been used for on-going documents and other public information. External parties were able to follow the project progress and get first hand insight into current activities and decisions. Editing is allowed for participants of the consortium partners. Tutorials and material related to the usage of the Community-Lab testbed have been updated during the development process of the testbed.

In order to provide more recent updates of the CONFINE progress to the community, a feed aggregator called planet2 has been set up for the project. This feed aggregator collects the RSS/atom feeds of different project partners that talk about CONFINE in their respective blogs, and then shows all these posts with a single feed on the central CONFINE Web page.

The planet is integrated in the CONFINE project's main page. Thus, it shows posts from the project's "official" blog but provides easy access to others' posts related with CONFINE.

1http://confine-project.eu/2https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_%28software%29/

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participants dedicated to reporting CONFINE progress: Funkfeuer3, AWMN4, guifi.net5, Ivan Vilata i Balaguer6, and another personal blog7. For example, since mid-year 2 Funkfeuer on principle documents everything that they do in their blog.

1.2. BROADER MEDIA DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

1.2.3. MEDIA REPORTS AND PRESS RELEASES

Partners in the CONFINE project are regularly appearing in media reports and documentary films. A couple of recent examples are:

• heise.de Article8 about the CONFINE project as an alternative to the conventional Internet architecture, June 2013.

• Barcelona TV, Wi-Fi ciutadà i xarxes comunitàries, alternatives a les operadores per connectar-se a Internet9 (Wireless Summit, October 2012, published on Feb 24, 2013).

• Barcelona TV, Text in catalan, video in English Ben Scott: Internet no va ser dissenyada per accedir-hi igual que a la xarxa telefònica10 (Internet was not designed to be used as the phone network) (Wireless Summit, October 2012, published on Feb 24, 2013).

1.2.4. PROMOTIONAL VIDEO

In D5.3, the consortium outlined its intention to commission a promotional video for the CONFINE project. The OPLAN Foundation engaged Grace Productions, a UK-based, award-winning TV production company. Grace produced a detailed storyboard for an appropriate video, together with a detailed statement of costs. With the Foundation having expended considerable effort, Grace's proposal proved unacceptable to the CONFINE partners - it was viewed as being too expensive. Unfortunately, this has led to delays in the production of the video.

The consortium fully supports the notion of having a promotional video, a concept also supported by the team of reviewers. The management board decided to prepare videos in a bottom-up manner, producing local videos that can be integrated into the public web site.

1.3. CONFINE PRESENTATIONS

The CONFINE project has actively been presented by different project partners to different audiences (municipalities, engineering students, politicians, community network activists, computer activists, …).

Among the recent presentations were:

• “Sustainable communities: networks, clouds and markets”, Keynote speech by Leandro Navarro at the GECON 13 conference (Conference on the Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services).

3https://confine.funkfeuer.at/4https://confine.awmn.net/5http://blogs.guifi.net/confine/6http://savemanos.wordpress.com/?cat=26966797https://elvil.net/drupal/en/tag/confine-project8http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Abhoer-Skandal-Tempora-Forscher-basteln-an-neuer-Internetstruktur-1902403.html9http://www.btv.cat/btvnoticies/2013/02/24/wi-fi-guifinet-internet-operadores/10http://www.btv.cat/btvnoticies/2013/02/24/benscott-internet-neutralitat-transparencia-telecomunicacions-newamericafoundation/

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D5.4 Dissemination, training, standardization activities in year 2 • Community-Lab, demo and announcement of the open call at the IEEE Peer-to-Peer

Conference, Sept 11, 2013.• Community-Lab presentation (+ CONFINE Open call II) to the Erasmus Mundus Master in

Distributed Computing in Fejan, Sweden, August 21, 2013.• CONFINE presentation (+ Community-lab, Open call II) to EUWIN network of excellence at

its inaugural event for experimental research in Bologna, Italy Jul 8-9, 2013.• CONFINE presentation at INTERREG IVC e-CREATE Project workshop , Amarante, Portugal,

17 - 19 April 2013.• CONFINE presentation (+ Community-lab, Open call II) to EUWIN11 network of excellence at

its inaugural event for experimental research in Bologna, Italy, 8th -9th July 2013.• CONFINE presentation (+ Community-lab, Open call II) to JCSD201312 Spanish network on

Distributed and Concurrent Systems at its annual workshop in San Sebastián, Spain, 19 th

-21st June 2013.• Presentation about the CONFINE project to the local community network Wireless

Antwerpen13, 30th May 2013.• Presentation about the OLSRv2 activities in CONFINE at the Wireless Community Weekend

201314, Berlin (DE), 10th May 2013.• Demo, presentations and a video about the CONFINE, Community-Lab.net, OLSRv2, and

WiFIX at Wireless BattleMesh 201315, Aalborg (DK), 15th -21st April 2013.• CONFINE presentation at INTERREG IVC e-CREATE Project workshop16 , Amarante, Portugal,

17 - 19 April 2013.• CONFINE presentation to EMDC17 students at the Winter event in Vall de Nuria, Spain, 7th

February 2013. • CONFINE and open calls presentation to researchers and PhD students at Computer

Science Department of Universidad de Chile18, 31st January 2013.• CONFINE and open calls presentation to research groups, start-ups and companies located

in PMT19, Dec 21, 2012. • Presentation at the Falling Walls20 Conference, Berlin, 9th November 2012• Presentation of community networking for a broad audience at the University of Antwerp,

8th November 2012• Presentation at the FIRE engineering week in Brussels, 6th November 2012

Accepted presentations include:• A survey on community networks, to be presented on the Wireless Summit 2013, Berlin,

October 2013• A community network mapper, to be presented on the Wireless Summit 2013, Berlin,

October 2013

11http://www.euwin.org/12https://sites.google.com/site/jcsd2013/13http://www.wirelessantwerpen.be/14http://berlinwebweek.de/2013/01/09/freifunk-wireless-community-weekend-10-5-2013/15http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV6/16http://www.e-create-project.eu/index.php?id=workshop-in-val-sousa17http://www.kth.se/en/studies/programmes/master/em/emdc18http://dcc.uchile.cl/19http://www.pmt.es/20http://falling-walls.com/

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D5.4 Dissemination, training, standardization activities in year 2 1.4. SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

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

Wireless Mesh Software Defined Networks (wmSDN), Detti A., Pisa C. Salsano S., Blefari-Melazzi N. Accepted for the Second International Workshop on Community Networks and Bottom-up-Broadband (CNBuB), October 2013.

A Monitoring system for Community-Lab, Rameshan N., Navarro L., Tsalouchidou I., Accepted for the 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2013), Spain, November 2013.

A Questionnaire based Examination of Community Networks, Avonts J., Braem B., Blondia C., Accepted for the Second International Workshop on Community Networks and Bottom-up-Broadband (CNBuB), October 2013.

A Case for Research with and on Community Networks, Newsletter ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 43 Issue 3, July 2013.

An analysis of the Ninux wireless community network, Maccari L. Accepted for the Second International Workshop on Community Networks and Bottom-up-Broadband (CNBuB), October 2013.

Experimental Evaluation of Wireless Mesh Networks: A Case Study and Comparison, Cerdà-Alabern L., Neumann A., Escrich P., Accepted at the New Information Communication Science and Technology for Sustainable Development: France-China international workshop (NICST’2013), France, September 2013.

NHDP and OLSRv2 for Community Networks, Barz C., Niewiejska J., Rogge H. Accepted for the Second International Workshop on Community Networks and Bottom-up-Broadband (CNBuB), October 2013.

Software Defined Networking for Community Network Testbeds, Dimogerontakis E., Vilata I., Navarro L. Accepted for the Second International Workshop on Community Networks and Bottom-up-Broadband (CNBuB), October 2013.

PACE: Simple Multi-hop Scheduling for Single-radio 802.11-based Stub Wireless Mesh Networks , Ribeiro F. et al. Accepted for the Second International Workshop on Community Networks and Bottom-up-Broadband (CNBuB), October 2013.

Receiver-driven routing for community mesh networks, Neumann A., Navarro L., Escrich P., and Baig R., in 5th International Workshop on Hot Topics in Mesh Networking (IEEE HOTMESH 2013), Madrid, Spain, June 2013.

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D5.4 Dissemination, training, standardization activities in year 2 Effort-Based Incentives for Resource Sharing in Collaborative Volunteer Applications. Davide Vega, Roc Meseguer, Felix Freitag and Sergio Ochoa. 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD 2013).

Geo-localized messages irradiation using smartphones: An energy consumption analysis. Moreno, D, Ochoa SF, Santos R, Meseguer R. 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD 2013).

Deploying applications with Community-Lab in wireless community networks. Marc Aymerich, Roger Baig, Pau Escrich, Ivan Vilata, Axel Neumann, Davide Vega, Ester Lopez, Felix Freitag, Leandro Navarro. To be published in The Fourteenth International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (IEEE WoWMoM 2013).

Support Service for Reciprocal Computational Resource Sharing in Wireless Community Networks. Ümit Büyüksahin, Amin Khan, Felix Freitag. To be published in The 5th International Workshop on Hot Topics in Mesh Networking (IEEE HOTMESH 2013), co-located with WoWMoM 2013.

Clouds of Small Things: Provisioning Infrastructure-as-a-Service from within Community Networks, A. M. Khan, L. Sharifi, L. Veiga, and L. Navarro, in /2nd International Workshop on Community Networks and Bottom-up-Broadband (CNBuB'2013), within IEEE WiMob/, 2013.

Towards Incentive-Based Resource Assignment and Regulation in Clouds for Community Networks. Amin M. Khan, Umit Cavus Büyüksahin and Felix Freitag, in 10th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems and Services (GECON 2013), September, 2013.

Incentives for Dynamic and Energy-Aware Capacity Allocation for Multi-Tenant Clusters. Xavier León and Leandro Navarro, in 10th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems and Services (GECON 2013), September, 2013.

Community Home Gateways for P2P Clouds. Pau Estrich, Roger Baig, Ivan Vilata, Axel Neumann, Marc Aymerich, Ester López, Davide Vega, Roc Meseguer, Felix Freitag and Leandro Navarro. Accepted for the Demo track of the IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P 2013), September, 2013.

Waterwall: a cooperative, distributed firewall for mesh networks, Maccari L. Cign R. L. Accepted for publication on EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking.

1.5. MAJOR CONFINE-HOSTED, ORGANIZED AND ATTENDED EVENTS

1.5.1. IS4CWN 2012 – INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT FOR COMMUNITY WIRELESS NETWORKS

CONFINE co-organized and hosted the 2012 International Summit for Community Wireless Networks (IS4CWN 2012)21. This event was held in Barcelona, Spain in October 2012. Over eighty delegates attended more than 30 events held over a four day period. Constituencies represented include academia, industry and third- sector groups. By origin, attendees were broadly spread,

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partners, and many external parties. The summit was held in early October.

1.5.2. CNBUB 2012 - COMMUNITY NETWORKS AND BOTTOM-UP-BROADBAND WORKSHOP

The date for the IS4CWN, on 4th - 7th October 2012, just prior to the CNBuB workshop, was selected such that the participants of the IS4CWN 2012 had the chance to attend the CNBuB workshop and WiMob conference, thereby offering a unique opportunity to bring together practitioners of community networks and researchers.

In order to bring CONFINE to the academic community, the CONFINE consortium organized the First International Workshop on Community Networks and Bottom-up-Broadband (CNBuB 2012)22 on 8th October 2012. This event was co-located with the 8th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2012), also held in Barcelona.

CNBuB 2012 on October 8th 2012 in Barcelona, Spain, brought research issues of community networks to a broader networking research audience. In CNBuB 2012, 8 scientific papers were presented, 5 of them from the CONFINE project. The workshop was attended by approximately 40 persons.

1.5.3. CNBUB 2013 - SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON COMMUNITY NETWORKS AND BOTTOM-UP-BROADBAND

CNBuB 201323 has been organized to take place on October 7th 2013 in Lyon, France, co-located again with the WiMob conference. 6 out of 7 papers come from CONFINE partners. The acceptance rate was below 30%.

1.5.4. BATTLEMESH V6

As previously with the Battlemesh v524, CONFINE members participated in the Battlemesh v625 in Aalborg in May 2013. There the progress of the project was presented to participating activists

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demo of the Community-Lab testbed, DLEP, a presentation of the WiFix effort as one of the selected experiments from the first open call, and a brief introduction of the Open Call 2.

The effort contributed by Guifi.net members of the project in setting up the Battlemesh testbed, has given birth to a mesh testbed in the UPC campus using a similar set-up.

As in previous editions, participation in the Battlemesh has created opportunities for direct contact with numerous developers of community network software (e.g. OpenWRT and mesh routing protocols), raising awareness and interest amongst this audience.

While the Battlemesh is attended primarily by developers, IS4CWN is attended by managing activists and promoters of initiatives. For CONFINE, both groups are important for the dissemination of the project. It is therefore anticipated that CONFINE will attend and contribute to both conferences also in the coming years.

1.6. OPEN CALL ORGANIZATION

One of the objectives of the CONFINE project is to make the experimental infrastructure (Community-Lab) available for execution of innovative experiments. A significant part of the project budget (20% or nearly 1 Million €) is reserved for contributions from new partners that are not part of the initial project consortium. To ensure this, the project includes two open and competitive calls for innovative experiments or expansion to other community networks.

1.6.1. FIRST OPEN CALL

Deliverable 5.3 was largely written during the open period of the first open call. This has since closed, and 36 applications were received before the deadline expired. Applications were received from academia, business and other communities. The majority from Europe, but also elsewhere.

Prior to the call opening, a great deal of promotion of the first open call was undertaken by consortium members. Amongst other activities, this included:

• During the participation in conferences and on local presentations of the CONFINE project by the different partners

• Prominent coverage of the open call on a number of consortium members' websites (e.g. the OPLAN Foundation, iMinds)

• Information for applicants is published on the CONFINE website

• Further dissemination of the Open Call via mailing lists and Webs of institutions (mailing lists and Webs are given in the annex of this deliverable)

• A specific email account for enquiries relating to the open call has been set up. This is complemented by a telephone number providing further support.

The call was originally scheduled to remain open between 20th September and 19th October 2012. However, in order to maximise contributions, and properly deal with applicant's questions, it was extended until 31st October 2012.

Five small proposals (around €50,000 each) have been retained:

Open Source P2P Streaming for Community Networks - OSPS (UNITN)

The goal of the OSPS experiment is demonstrating that Community Networks can support advanced multimedia services such as real-time video and TV distribution. The study of efficient

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topic but its result will also leave to the community a new service to increase the value of the network and better serve the community. Both these effects can be obtained on the basis of a previous FP7 project, namely NAPA-WINE, through the Open Source P2P streaming software PeerStreamer. The availability of both an open source code base and an application built with flexibility and network awareness in mind empowers the researchers to experiment with different configurations and use cases. The trend followed by mainstream video sharing platforms is to use cloud-based services to globally re-share videos that the users update on the platform. P2P video distribution instead generates mesh- like traffic by its nature, and, if the distributed content is locally created and of local interest the traffic is localized and self-contained in the Community Network without the need to use third-party platforms. This observation adds a further reason and curiosity for such experiments.

The project will produce a stable version of the application tailored for Community Networks that will remain available to users and to CONFINE in particular. Furthermore, the experiments will give useful indications on design and dimensioning of the networks as well as on the best practices to implement streaming services with various delay constraints on top of Community Networks. Finally, additional preliminary tests on related topics, such as privacy and security protection, will be orchestrated exploiting resourced external to this project1, thus creating additional value for both CONFINE (more experiments and testing) and for PAF-PFE (access to the experimental facilities).

Contact for the experiment: Renato Lo Cigno

Confidentiality in the open CONFINE world (UL)

When users connect to a community network (CN), the gateway to the Internet is shifted from a trusted home domain to a domain controlled by a potentially untrustworthy operator. The owner of a guest Access Point is able to learn private information of an associated user and link it to a concrete individual (e.g., by analyzing cookies, queries, visited URLs, unencrypted session data, or fingerprinting physical devices). A wide availability of easily deployable malicious software allows an increasing number of non-experts to perform rogue activities. The awareness of the described threats raises the necessity for appropriate techniques that ensure data protection and confidentiality. With our proposal we aim to tackle the above mentioned issues by evaluating and analyzing to which extent existing privacy-preserving routing techniques applied on the Internet can be transferred and tailored to the needs of community-based networks.

To this end we want to test which of the available privacy-preserving routing techniques can be efficiently deployed in the community-based networks on the example of the CONFINE testbed. We put our focus on lightweight methods developed by ourselves that are specially designed for environments with limited resources, lack of a central point of trust, and that are able to deal with a high churn rate. Therefore we will deploy our prototypes concretely on the CONFINE testbed and evaluate their applicability, performance, stability, self-adaptation and will use our existing tools for automated instantiation, measurements, data collection, and evaluation that were successfully used for long-term experiments on the PlanetLab testbed. Here we benefit from our comprehensive research experience in the area of data protection, privacy-preserving routing, and node lookup services in untrustworthy environments.

Contact for the experiment: Andriy Panchenko

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D5.4 Dissemination, training, standardization activities in year 2 Anonymous communication with unobservability (FUB)

Whistleblower laws protect individuals who inform the public or an authority about governmental or corporate misconduct. Despite these laws, whistleblowers frequently risk reprisals and sites such as WikiLeaks emerged to provide a level of anonymity to these individuals. However, as countries increase their level of network surveillance and Internet protocol data retention, the mere act of using anonymizing software such as Tor, or accessing a whistleblowing website through an SSL channel might be incriminating enough to lead to investigations and repercussions. As an alternative submission system we propose an online advertising network called AdLeaks. AdLeaks leverages the ubiquity of unsolicited online advertising to provide complete sender unobservability when submitting disclosures. AdLeaks ads compute a random function in a browser and submit the outcome to the AdLeaks infrastructure. Such a whistleblower’s browser replaces the output with encrypted information so that the transmission is indistinguishable from that of a regular browser. Its back-end design assures that AdLeaks must process only a fraction of the resulting traffic in order to receive disclosures with high probability.

We have implemented the AdLeaks system design and we have evaluated it through mathematical analysis and micro-benchmarks. We propose to study its scalability and practical applicability within the CONFINE testbed in order to validate our results empirically and to clarify necessary assumptions.

Contact for the experiment: Volker Roth

Exploitation of information Centric network principles in wireLess cOmmunity NEtworks (CLONE) (CNIT)

Wireless Community Networks (WCNs) are multi-hop mesh networks built by volunteers using off-the-shelf WiFi devices. WCNs are used to share the cost of Internet access, but also to support the distribution of community information and services. Anyway, such social goals may clash with the severe impairments provided by the multi-hop wireless channel, which reduces the quality of experience and, therefore, the attractiveness for new users to join the WCN. Several mechanisms have been proposed so far to face the effects of these impairments. Conversely, this project wishes to relieve the causes, rather than effects: we exploit the instruments of an Information Centric Network (ICN), namely in-network caching and routing-by-name, to shorten the multi-hop path through a dynamic replication of information and services, on community devices. Following an evolutionary approach, ICN functionality is deployed over IP, without compromising the operating regime of IP-based community services.

To evaluate the effectiveness of our concepts in a practical use-case, we prototype a community web hosting service, named WSaaS, that uses storage and computation resources of community user’s hosts, to dynamically replicate Web pages of community users. It is easy to recognize, that this service behaves as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), actually offered by Cloud Computing, where Software is just a Web Server. We use Community-Lab facility to carry out comparative experimentations, ICN vs. IP, showing performance improvements obtained both for basic point-to-point data transfer and within the community web hosting use-case. The exploitation of ICN over Wireless Community Networks is a research topic not yet addressed neither by the literature, nor by on-going European projects. Therefore this project is a pioneer of this research area. Moreover, the CLONE project would establish a connecting link between the CONFINE and CONVERGENCE FIRE projects, where CNIT is coordinator.

Contact for the experiment: Andrea Detti

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Wi-Fi network Infrastructure eXtension (WiFIX) (INESCP)

IEEE 802.11 (also known as Wi-Fi) is a pervasive and ubiquitous technology but with limited radio range, making the coverage of large geographical areas difficult. Multiple Wi-Fi access points can be used to enable connectivity towards a wired infrastructure. However, Wi-Fi-based Wireless Mesh Networks (hereafter WMNs) are a more cost-effective and flexible solution to extend wired network infrastructures. WMNs are part of the Future Internet concept and are the enablers of the community networks considered in CONFINE, capable of providing city-wide flexible and cost-effective Wi-Fi coverage to wireless terminals. INESC TEC has defined a solution for WMN, named Wi-Fi network Infrastructure eXtension (WiFIX), that considers (1) unicast, multicast, and broadcast routing, (2) channel assignment, and (3) multi-hop medium access control aspects, in order to support existing and new applications on top. WiFIX overcomes the disadvantages of existing WMN solutions, namely by: I) reducing routing signalling overhead; ii) considering a new approach for multicast/broadcast traffic diffusion that takes advantage of Wi-Fi built- in unicast data rate control and delivery guarantee; iii) defining a topology-aware channel assignment algorithm that increases WMN performance and scalability; iv) considering a multi-hop scheduling mechanism overlaid on the 802.11 MAC, which enables efficient and fair WMN multi-hop medium access;

WiFIX has been evaluated against state of the art solutions, and its higher efficiency and better performance have been demonstrated using theoretical analysis, ns-2/ns-3 simulations, and small-scale laboratory testbeds. This action aims to complement such evaluations with real-world, large-scale WMN experiments. For that purpose, we will leverage the available WiFIX Linux implementation and the real-world, large-scale Community-Lab testbed. The major objective is to validate existing theoretical and simulation results, and complement the experimental results achieved so far.

Contact for the experiment: Rui Campos

1.6.2. SECOND OPEN CALL

The second open call is open from September 2, 2013 until October 19, 2013 with an expected extension of the call until the end of October 2013 as was done last year. The budget available in this open call is up to EUR 750 K€ European Commission funding, the remaining budget from the first open call of approximately 1 Million € (20% of the project funding). The expected requested funding per proposal should normally be in the order of EUR 50 to 100 K€. Therefore this will offer funding for up to 8-15 proposals, usually with 1 but up to 2 participants.

Two types of participation are expected:

i) experiments relevant to community networks that make use of the existing Community-Lab testbed.

ii) expansion of the Community-Lab testbed over other community networks that bring added value to the testbed.

The minimum duration of the participation is 12 months from February 2014, and the maximum duration is 20 months, until end of the project in September 30, 2015.

An independent evaluation of the submitted proposals will select the most innovative experiments and testbed expansions which will be executed within the project.

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proposed experiment, it will be included in the project consortium for a time period corresponding to the duration of preparation, integration, execution, and evaluation of the work proposed.

Dissemination channels of the open call are listed in the appendix in section 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3.

1.7. OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

The project relies heavily on open source software. Moreover, the project partners agreed in the Description of Work to prefer sharing software. Due to using open source software licences, and following the consortium agreement, most software has been published immediately in a publicly accessible code repository at Redmine26 repository administered by the CONFINE partner Pangea. A backup version is hosted in Github27. For the node DB and related tools, there is a separate repository on github28. The software is publicly available for download.

26http://redmine.confine-project.eu/27https://github.com/confine-project/28https://github.com/FFM/

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2. TRAINING ACTIVITIES

During the second year, the 5 new partners selected in the first open call joined the project consortium. As part of the training activities, support was dedicated to allow the new partners to start working with the CONFINE tools. The selected research projects were very diverse. Thus, instead of a generic support, it was opted to provide a rather partner specific support.

Some of the open call partners were instructed via tutorials available at the CONFINE Wiki. These tutorials show how to use the VCT tool in order to set up and code experiments. Specific questions were discussed and answered either by mail or video conference calls. Since the open call projects will finish in the third year of the CONFINE project, it is expected that project specific support will have to continue.

Following the idea of opening the Community-Lab testbed to other user and contributor groups in the long term, a number of Web based tutorials have been prepared that explain how to set up, configure and customize a CONFINE node on a contributed device. Since ways for the sustainability of the testbed include to approach other user groups, we expect that a stronger interaction with external users towards the third and fourth year of the project will define the exact cases of training and support that are needed for this engagement.

Several demonstrations of different aspects of the Community-Lab testbed were given to the research community within the demo track of academic conferences: Demonstrations were given at WoWMoM 201329 in Madrid, Spain in June 2013, P2P 201330 in Trento in September 2013, and 16th ACM MSWiM 201331 in Barcelona in November 2013.

A demonstration of the Community-Lab testbed with hands-on sessions was given at this year's Battlemesh v6 in Aalborg in April 2013. Through this demo, the wireless network activists were reached.

The Community-Lab will also be part of sessions in IS4CWM 2013 in Berlin in October 2013, which will allow to bring the testbed closer to the community network activists.

Regarding academic activities, UPC presented the Community-Lab testbed to several student groups. Among these were computer science students from UPC, students from the Erasmus Mundus Master in Distributed Computing32, and students from the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate in Distributed Computing33. A number of Master theses carried out during the last semester were related to the Community-Lab testbed. Different aspects of community networks are researched in on-going PD theses which include experiments on the Community-Lab testbed.

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3. STANDARDIZATION ACTIVITIES

The CONFINE Project Partners identified the following key technologies for community networking, which will be subject to the standardization efforts of CONFINE:

DLEP will allow to access link layer information like signal quality and neighbours in range for radio/WIFI on Ethernet connected devices. It will also enable remote configuration of the radio without the need for direct access to the device. Thus, enhancing the visualization mechanism in the research node by providing link layer information via DLEP instead of direct WIFI device access will enable high granularity in access control to sensitive network information (respecting privacy) while still supporting a large set of network experiments that need access to link layer information (e.g. cross layer routing experiments).

An important routing protocol widely used in community networks which is capable of citywide deployments is Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR). OLSRv234 has been designed as a successor in a modular way, decoupling the Neighborhood Discovery Protocol35 (NHDP) from the actual routing protocol. One of the advantages is that the neighborhood discovery can be reused by other protocols like Simplified Multicast Forwarding36 (SMF). SMF can benefit from NHDP in terms of more efficiency than the simple flooding mode.

BMX637 (the successor of BMXD, an evolution of the original BATMAN38 protocol) incorporates a new, unconventional approach for disseminating node-individual data between entities of a community network infrastructure. BMX6 already provides the concepts (and an actively used implementation) to let each node individually define the routing policy/algorithm for its packets. This concept should be extended, tested, and finally standardized to enable the concurrent support of (per-user) individual routing, security, and trust policies under the preamble of collaborative networking.

Finally the consortium agrees that there is a strong need for a consolidated node database (nodeDB), which is at the core of most community networks. A nodeDB is usually the central database where the important information regarding IP address assignments, contact data, node information and device information is stored. By providing an application programming interface (API) to this database, multiple services can be built on top of this nodeDB. For instance, services such as automatic provisioning of voice over IP (VoIP) accounts for users of the network. Thus, one of the main values of a nodeDB is that a large multitude of services can be built on top of it.

However, most community networks as well as wireless ISPs implemented their own nodeDB rendering it incompatible with other networks. For example, CONFINE partner AWMN has already deployed a separate database39 that will host the planning process of the nodes in Attica. Therefore there is a strong need for unifying access to these databases. The CONFINE project will produce specifications (including security and privacy considerations) for a common nodeDB language which can be implemented independently in most legacy nodeDBs thereby allowing for means of data exchange and thus supporting the concept of federations. The outreach effect will be that applications written for one nodeDB will be able to work on any other nodeDB which implemented the common language and API.

34http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-manet-olsrv2-19/35http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6130/36http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6621/37http://bmx6.net/38http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-openmesh-b-a-t-m-a-n-00 39http://confine-wind.awmn.net

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bring it to the standardization process. This can either be done as an informational RFC at the IETF (as a first step) or through the W3C consortium.

During year one, CONFINE has already contributed to standardization bodies, primarily due to the results obtained from the building of the experimental facility.

3.1. STANDARDIZATION ACTIVITIES IN YEAR 2

In year 2 of the project, the efforts of standardizing the DLEP protocol in the IETF MANET WG have been pursued:

In November 2012, CONFINE partners published an alternative, personal draft draft-rogge-stateless-rfc5444-dlep-0040 at the IETF, in order to demonstrate alternative concepts to the DLEP draft 03, which was the current draft at that time. It demonstrated a simpler, more robust protocol mechanism than the original draft as a basis for the discussion with the authors of the official WG draft. In March 2013, the next release of the official draft was published (DLEP draft 04) which is the latest version41. Since then, the CONFINE members have been in contact with the authors to further improve the draft. Unfortunately, the authors took little effort to update their draft. At the IETF 87 in Berlin, Germany, CONFINE members met with the authors to speed up the standardization process again.

As planned, additional efforts have been spent in the standardization of MANET routing protocols. The main focus has been put on extensions of the OLSRv2 protocol, the proactive protocol of the IETF MANET WG. However, the reactive protocol development in the WG has also been monitored and new draft releases have been reviewed. Regarding the OLSRv2 extensions, first ideas and a preliminary specification of a compression schema for the OLSRv2 packet format RFC 5444 have been presented to members of the WG. The motivation for this effort is that while the new type length value based packet format of OLSRv2 is much more flexible than the old binary packet format of OLSRv1, it is less compact than its predecessor. While for IPv6, the address compression of RFC 5444 moderates the overhead, it is still significant for IPv4 (see CONFINE D5.4). A schema based compression will eliminate this disadvantage while still providing the new flexibility.

Not only the packet format of OLSRv2 has been subject to the standardization efforts of CONFINE. The consortium published three versions of an ETT Metric Draft “Packet Sequence Number based directional ETT Metric for OLSRv2”. This results in a metric that calculates link costs proportional to the airtime of a packet including retransmissions. Thus, it does not only take into account the link quality, but also the transmission speed of the link. This allows for heterogeneous link types in a single routing domain (e.g. supporting long distance, low speed backup links). So far, the draft got a lot of feedback which has been integrated into the latest version 03 of the draft42.

As future work, the IETF standardization of an enhanced dual stack operation with IPv4 and IPv6 is planned. CONFINE has developed a special extension of the standard protocol to improve the support of dual-stack interfaces with both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. The standard Neighborhood Discovery Protocol (NHDP) and OLSRv2 protocols only specify the handling of a single address type, which would require to run the protocol two times. To reduce the overhead of running the OLSRv2 protocol twice without rewriting the whole protocol, two changes have been integrated into OLSRv2 / NHDP. The work on dual stack operation also addresses auto / self configuration aspects. In addition, there have been first discussions with the authors of the draft “Multi-

40http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-rogge-stateless-rfc5444-dlep-00/41Checked at 06.09.201342http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-rogge-baccelli-olsrv2-ett-metric-02/

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cooperation and submitting a common draft.

Regarding the standardization of BMX6, the work in year 2 was primarily focused on maturing the protocol (see section 1.4) and providing additional documentation44. In the long term, this will be the basis for the standardization process in the next years.

43IETF MANET draft-dearlove-manet-olsrv2-multitopology-01, http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dearlove-manet-olsrv2-multitopology/44http://bmx6.net/projects/bmx6/wiki/

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4. CONCERTATION ACTIVITIES

4.1. PARTICIPATION IN CONCERTATION ACTIVITIES

The CONFINE project presented Community-Lab at the FIRE engineering workshop45 in Ghent, 6-7 November 2012, Belgium.

At this workshop, a set of FIRE experimental facilities were introduced together with projects with experiments that use these facilities. Among these projects, the Clouds for Community Networks project was presented, which uses CONFINE's Community-Lab infrastructure. It showed one of the use cases for Community-Lab.

Additional presentations with concertation aspects which are also listed in section 1.3 were:

• Community-Lab presentation (+ CONFINE Open call II) to the Erasmus Mundus Master in Distributed Computing in Fejan, Sweden, August 21, 2013, by Leandro Navarro.

• CONFINE presentation (+ Community-lab, Open call II) to EUWIN network of excellence at its inaugural event for experimental research in Bologna, Italy Jul 8-9, 2013 by Leandro Navarro (UPC) Slides.

• CONFINE presentation at INTERREG IVC e-CREATE Project workshop , Amarante, Portugal, 17 - 19 April 2013 by Rui Campos (INESC TEC).

The consortium plans to continue participating in future FIA events and future networks concertation meetings.

4.2. INTERACTION AND SYNERGIES WITH EU MULTIDISCIPLINARY INITIATIVES

CONFINE has taken up work for connecting the different testbed sites of CONFINE via the FEDERICA infrastructure46. The successful federation of the CONFINE testbed sites will open new opportunities to federate with the experimental facilities of other FIRE projects. The different CONFINE community testbeds have been federated via the FEDERICA infrastructure. Unfortunately, due to technical problems in the FEDERICA network, the connectivity has been disrupted for some periods during year 2. However, the problems are now resolved with a change in the tunnel set-up and the preparation of backup links via the Internet. Towards this end, the relevant FIRE projects which particularly aim at the federation of experimental facilities will be contacted in order to coordinate activities.

There is an excellent interaction with developers of OpenWRT initiative47. OpenWRT developers participated in CONFINE developer meetings and are subscribed to the [email protected] mailing list. The OpenWRT Linux distribution is the base on which the community device and research device software of CONFINE is built. Some of the customized developments for CONFINE, like enhancements to LXC, have provided feedback to OpenWRT.

CONFINE has also been in touch with the OpenAIRE project, a European FP7 project which focuses on open access infrastructure for European research. An open access publication strategy has been discussed with OpenAIRE and has been proposed to the project partners, while information

45http://www.ict-fire.eu/events/fire-engineering-workshop.html46 http://www.fp7-federica.eu/47 https://openwrt.org/

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mailto:[email protected]

http://www.e-create-project.eu/index.php?id=workshop-in-val-sousa

https://wiki.confine-project.eu/_media/pub:confine-euwin.pdf

http://www.euwin.org/

paper has been published on the EU CORDIS website by means of the OpenAIRE system. In the future, the projects will further collaborate to increase publication visibility of CONFINE publications. Also, the OpenAIRE project is planning to feature the CONFINE project in its newsletter as an example of an ICT project which it supports and which chooses open access publications.

Following the recommendations of the first year review to promote the concept of community networking in the area of first response and disaster management, the CONFINE project has supported the national project proposal PRIMEKOMS. The Fraunhofer FKIE is applying for a tender from the German BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) in the area of civil security. Goal of the Project will be to identify and analyse potentials, risks and other general conditions for the use of social media for crisis communication. To overcome the problem that centralized communication infrastructure may have been affected by the disaster, part of the project will analyse, how community networks might be integrated into these disaster recovery scenarios.

The CONFINE consortium sees this as a great chance to discuss these opportunities with many German authorities for civil protection and disaster management. Besides others, the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment is part of the consortium and the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance and the Federal Ministry of the Interior are associated partners. This will be the basis to promote the concept of community networks for first response and disaster management on an international level.

The Letter of Support from the CONFINE consortium for PRIMEKOMS is depicted in the annex in section 6.5.

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5. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

The CONFINE project's dissemination activities in the second year have successfully addressed different stakeholders. The consortium brought community networks research to the academic audience through the organization of the CNBuB 2012 and CNBuB 2013 workshops. The interaction with the international promoters of community networks took place in the IS4CWN 2012 event. The presentation of CONFINE to the community network activists was achieved through CONFINE's participation in the BattleMeshv6. In addition, a large number of presentations were given at several events and scientific papers were published in the context of the CONFINE project.

Training activities in the second year were conducted in different directions. An important effort was dedicated to provide support to the five open call partners to allow them to get familiar with the tools of the CONFINE project. Another effort addressed informing the academic research community, networking activists and community network participants on the status and evolution of the Community-Lab testbed. To address the first group, demonstration of different aspects of the Community-Lab testbed were given within the demo track of three academic conferences. The Battlemesh v6 was attended by consortium members to interact with networking activists and hands-on sessions were given. In the IS4WCN 2013 the Community-Lab testbed will be present in several sessions to reach community network participants. The testbed has furthermore been presented to several student groups. Several Master thesis conducted experiments in Community-Lab and research questions of Community-Lab are investigated in an on-going PhD thesis.

In terms of standardization, the consortium has extended its activities at the IETF and put a strong focus on the OLSRv2 standardization. For example, an ETT Metric Draft “Packet Sequence Number based directional ETT Metric for OLSRv2” was submitted to the IETF.

The CONFINE project interacted through concertation meetings and bilateral interchanges with other European and international projects. A national tender from the German BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) in the area of civil security involving several important German authorities has been supported by CONFINE in order to promote the idea of community networking in the area of first response and disaster management and to get in touch and promote the idea to the German authorities.

The lessons learned from the organization of the first open call were incorporated into the second, larger open call. It was extended also to cover the expansion of the Community-Lab testbed over other community networks that bring added value to the testbed, while experiments relevant to community networks that make use of the existing Community-Lab testbed are in the main focus of the second call.

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6. APPENDIX

6.1. OPEN CALL 2 ANNOUNCEMENTS

Open Call announcement in English for international publications

Open Call announcement in “Internet Computing” - September 2012

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D5.4 Dissemination, training, standardization activities in year 2 Open Call announcement in a Spanish version

Open Call announcement in “El Pais” - Wednesday, September 11, 2013

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D5.4 Dissemination, training, standardization activities in year 2 Open Call announcement in an English version for Belgium and Greece

Open Call announcement in Belgian“De Tijd” - Friday, September 13, 2013

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D5.4 Dissemination, training, standardization activities in year 2 Open Call announcement in Greece “Echo (ΗΧΏ)” - Tuesday, September 3, 2013

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6.2. OPEN CALL 2 WEB PAGE

Open Call 2Connected communities: A future internet, built by the people for the peopleThe EU-funded CONFINE project is organizing two open calls to offer our experimental facilities to external experimenters from academia, industry, and other community networks. This second (and last) open call will close on Saturday October 19, 2013, at 17:00h Brussels time.

The CONFINE project is designing, building and operating a distributed testbed to support experimental research in community networking: Community-lab.net. More details are described in the paper “A case for research with and on community networks” SIGCOMM CCR 2013 among several publications and papers. Topics of interest for this open call are around community networking, on aspects such as but not limited to:

• Wireless mesh networks • Wireless MAC and routing protocols • Services and applications for community networks • Cross-layer designs • Hybrid networks with wireless and optical fibre links • Tools for bootstrapping and running community networks • Performance modelling and evaluation • Quality of service provisioning • Quality of experience in community networks • Community network security and privacy • Large-scale management and data collection infrastructures • Incentive models for encouraging users and businesses to participate in community

networks • Socio-technical-economic experiments for community networks • Legal aspects of community networks • Increasing public awareness about the potential of community networks • Engaging citizens and local administrations in community network developments

Check the expected characteristics of the testbed for 2013 to make sure experiments proposed can be supported by our testbed. If you are interested in applying to this call and receiving funding for your participation, please find the information for the open call below. A (growing) list of frequently asked questions is available.

• Budget available in this open call: In this call, up to EUR 750 K€ Commission funding will be made available. The requested funding per proposal should normally be in the order of EUR 50 to 100 K€.

• Total number of proposals: The CONFINE project will offer funding for up to 8-15 proposals.

• Number of partners per proposal: The target number of partners per experiment is usually 1 but can be up to 2.

• Types of participation: We are looking for:

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http://confine-project.eu/faq-open-call-2/


http://wiki.confine-project.eu/milestones:confined

http://confine-project.eu/publications/

http://www.sigcomm.org/ccr/papers/2013/July/2500098.2500108

http://Community-lab.net/

D5.4 Dissemination, training, standardization activities in year 2 • i) experiments relevant to community networks that make use of the existing

Community-Lab testbed. • ii) expansion of the Community-Lab testbed over other community networks that

bring added value to the testbed. • Duration of the participation: The minimum duration is 12 months from February 2014,

and the maximum duration is 20 months, until end of the project in September 30, 2015. • Submissions: Proposals should be submitted in English and the submission is accepted

only electronically, in a single PDF file, to the following email address: [email protected].

• Deadline: This open call will close on Saturday October 19, 2013, at 17:00h Brussels time. • Contact: Felix Freitag, UPC, phone: +34 934011609, Email (preferably) for information (not

submissions): [email protected]

Yes, I’m interested! If you are planning to submit a proposal in response to CONFINE’s 2nd open call, please read carefully the following information on how to prepare your proposal:

• General Information and Requirements • Guide for applicants (DOC or PDF format), with a template for a proposal. Check the FAQ

for recommendations about length of sections. • Consortium Agreement • Frequently asked questions

General Information and RequirementsCall identifier: Confine-2

One of the objectives of the CONFINE project is to make the experimental infrastructure (Community-Lab) available for execution of innovative experiments.

The growth of the is can be achieved by new A) INNOVATIVE EXPERIMENTS WITH THE TESTBED, and B) INNOVATIVE EXPANSION OF THE TESTBED TO OTHER COMMUNITY NETWORKS .

New contributions can come from organisations that are not part of the initial project consortium. To ensure this, the project is issuing this open and competitive call for innovative experiments or expansion to other community networks. An independent evaluation of the submitted proposals will to select the most innovative experiments and testbed expansions which will be executed within the project.

Once an organisation (or a group of organisations – up to two partners), is selected to perform the proposed experiment, it will be included in the project consortium for a time period corresponding to the duration of preparation, integration, execution, and evaluation of the work proposed. The duration (including preparation and evaluation) of the funded activity must not be less than 12 months from February 2014 and the maximum duration is 20 months, until end of the project in September 30, 2015.

Proposals for category A, user experiments, have to demonstrate technological expertise, scientific novelty and quality.

Proposals for category B, expansions of the testbed, have to demonstrate technological expertise, scientific relevance or potential, and quality.

In addition, the participating organisations must be eligible for participation in the EC Framework Programme 7 (FP7) – related and further useful information can be found in Cordis. Estimations of

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http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/participate_en.html


http://confine-project.eu/files/2012/08/CONFINE-CA-20111022.pdf


http://confine-project.eu/files/2013/08/Guide_for_applicants.pdf

http://confine-project.eu/files/2013/08/Guide_for_applicants.doc

http://confine-project.eu/oc2-general-info/

the submitted proposal. Following the selection of experiments, an updated resource and project plan will be developed through negotiations between the proposing partner(s), the project coordinator and the project General Assembly, as well as with the consent of the EC Project Officer. Successful negotiations with additional partners will lead to an amendment to the project Grant Agreement.

The selected partner(s) will be added in the project consortium as additional partner(s), which will be realised by signing the necessary accession forms to the project Grant Agreement and Consortium Agreement. Consequently, the additional partners will participate in the project in accordance with all relevant FP7 rules and procedures. In particular the additional partners will be required to respect the consortium management procedures, e.g., with respect to project meetings, reporting, etc.

The proposal must state precise costs for the experiment in terms of personnel and other costs following the financial rules for EC FP7 projects. Although the maximum EC contribution for individual experiments is set by the European Commission at 200,000 € per experiment, the requested funding per experiment should normally be in the order of 50,000 €, up to a max of 100,000 €, e.g. in proposals with 2 partners. The additional partners will receive the contribution in accordance with standard FP7 payment rules: covering 50 or 75% of eligible costs, depending on the type of organization, and considering direct and indirect costs. Check the FAQ for a simple explanation if you don’t have experience in EC projects.

The proposals will be evaluated by independent experts, who will be briefed by the consortium about the selection criteria. Annex II of the Guide for applicants shows a template of an evaluation form. The selection criteria will include:

• Degree of innovation • Scientific excellence (category A), scientific relevance or potential (category B) • Relevance to community networks or to the CONFINE testbed, • Degree of end-user involvement, • Qualifications of the organizations performing the experiment and previous results

supporting the participation • Consideration of socio-economic and other relevant non-technical aspects, • Openness of the results, including licenses, that facilitate its public adoption, • Expected impact of the results.

Summary of the main points:

• Categories of participation: A) Innovative experiments with the testbed, B) Innovative expansion of the testbed to other community networks

• Duration: minimum 12 months from February 2014, maximum 20 months, until end of the project in September 30, 2015.

• Contribution: typically 50,000, up to 100,000 € • The proposer (typically 1, up to 2 orgs):

• Must be eligible for participation in the EC FP7 • Must respect the consortium management procedures

• The objective is to select the best eligible proposals to cover the budget, with a majority of funding for the first category (A: innovative experiments) (for reference, in the range of 70% for category A and 30% for category B).

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6.3. MAILING LISTS AND WEBS FOR OPEN CALL 2 PROMOTION

The second open call was call was published in various public and non-public mailing lists. Among the public mailing lists were:

[email protected] (02.09.2013) (GI - Newsletter future Internet)

[email protected] (02.09.2013) (GI - Fachgruppe Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme (KuVS))

[email protected] (02.09.2013) (GI - Fachbereich Sicherheit)

[email protected] (02.09.2013) (information-security related news, announcements of relevant events)

[email protected] (02.09.2013) (Mailing list for the scientific community interested in computer security)

Open Call announcement on “Fire Group” and “Likedin” - Tuesday, September 3, 2013

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D5.4 Dissemination, training, standardization activities in year 2 Open Call announcement on “http://apc.org” - Friday, September 6, 2013

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September 2, 2013


6.4. STATISTIC OF VISITS OF CONFINE WEB SERVER

In the following the statistics48 from the CONFINE confine-project.eu web site, not including the wiki.confine-project.eu web site, are presented.

The following table shows the page views by targeted URL. Please note that the open calls have been the top target on the web site.

Label Pageviews

/index 5595

open-call-1 2917

2012 1676

project-partners 791

project-details 563

publications 564

2013 340

category 267

open-call-2 293

frequently-asked-questions-confine-open-call-1 268

open-calls 249

2011 233

oc2-general-info 58

faq-open-call-2 40

tag 34

rel 23

Page URL not defined 19

wp-content 3

/open-call1 2

/start 3

open.calls 2

web 3

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Europe. However, there was a significant number of visits also from other continents.

Label Visits Actions Metadata: code

Europe 5065 11957 Europe

North America 1877 3670 North

America

Asia 276 470 Asia

South America

131 248 South America

Oceania 43 63 Oceania

Unknown 35 57 Unknown

Africa 32 43 Africa

Central America 8 16 Central

America

Finally, the subsequent table shows the number of visits and actions by HTTP referer links by HTTP referer. Please note that the top referers are EC and concertation related, followed by project partners and CONFINE related event sites.

Label Visits Actions Maximum actions in one visit

www.ideal-ist.eu 145 328 18

www.ict-fire.eu 100 289 20

ec.europa.eu 88 121 12

pangea.org 87 135 12

battlemesh.org 72 128 7

people.ac.upc.edu 60 146 9

wiki.confine-project.eu 56 149 13

www.linkedin.com 47 89 17

www.facebook.com 40 50 4

www.adleaks.org 39 60 12

dsg.ac.upc.edu 30 39 3

www.hardware.no 30 35 4

www.heise.de 29 38 4

community-lab.net 28 56 8

2013.wirelesssummit.org 22 46 8

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D5.4 Dissemination, training, standardization activities in year 2 6.5. LETTER OF SUPPORT FOR RELATED PROJECT PROPOSALS

Version 1.0 – 17/09/2013

The CONFINE project

September 2013

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