Community network (CN) initiatives have been around for roughly two decades,
evangelizing a distinctly different paradigm for building, maintaining, and sharing network …

The concept of open access (OA) plays a central role in the ongoing academic and political
debate on the appropriate regulatory framework for next-generation access networks in …

The era of 5G networks is approaching fast and its commercialization is planned for 2020.
However, there are still numerous aspects that need to be solved and standardized before …

Commons are natural or human-made resources that are managed cooperatively. The guifi.
net community network is a successful example of a digital infrastructure, a computer …

Community networks have flourished around the world as a complementary model for
enabling access to the Internet and its services. Nevertheless there is still an on-going …

In view of cost-effective implementations, scalable infrastructure and elastic capacity on
demand, virtualization and cloud computing are now becoming the cornerstones of any …

A horizontal view of newly emerged technologies in the field of network function
virtualization (NFV), introducing the open source implementation efforts that bring NFV from …

" Net neutrality" and Internet" fast-lanes" have been the subject of raging debates for several
years now, with various viewpoints put forth by stakeholders (Internet Service Providers …

In this paper we investigate a number of network virtualization models for OpenFlow
networks. Specifically, we investigate three sub-modules of the system-the control channel …

Passive optical network (PON) provides enough bandwidth for combining multiple service
providers׳ in addition to the fiber to the home (FTTH) network. Multiple optical line terminals …