RESEARCH TOPICS AND SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Topic 1:  Infrastructure management model for community network clouds

  • Sparks in the Fog: Social and Economic Mechanisms as Enablers for Community Network Clouds. Khan, Amin M and Felix Freitag. ADCAIJ: Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal 3 (8). 2014. doi:10.14201/ADCAIJ201438112.
  • Incentive-Based Resource Assignment and Regulation for Collaborative Cloud Services in Community Networks. Khan, Amin M., Umit Cavus Buyuksahin, and Felix Freitag. Journal of Computer and System Sciences.2014. doi:10.1016/j.jcss.2014.12.023.

Topic 2: Platform and application services in community network clouds

  • Towards Application Deployments in Community Network Clouds. Mennan Selimi and Felix Freitag. In the International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2014), Guimaraes, Portugal, June 30 – July 3, 2014.
  • Distributed Storage and Service Discovery for Heterogeneous Community Network Clouds. Mennan Selimi, Felix Freitag, Roger Pueyo Centelles and Agusti Moll. 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC2014), London, UK, December 8-11, 2014.
  • Stay-Away, protecting sensitive applications from performance interference. Navaneeth Rameshan, Leandro Navarro, Enric Monte, Vladimir Vlassov. The 15th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference (Middleware ’14). Bordeaux, December 8-12, 2014.
  • GlobLease: A Globally Consistent and Elastic Storage System using Leases. Ying Liu, Xiaxi Li and Vladimir Vlassov. The 20th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems(ICPADS 2014), Hsinchu, Taiwan, Dec 16–19, 2014.
  • TROBADOR: Service Discovery for Distributed Community Network Micro-Clouds. Mennan Selimi, Felix Freitag, Roger Pueyo Centelles, Agustí Moll, Luís Veiga. The 29th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA2015), Gwangju, Korea, March 25-27, 2015.
  • ProRenaTa: Proactive and Reactive Tuning to Scale a Distributed Storage System. Ying liu, Navaneeth Rameshan, Enric Monte, Viadimir Vlassov and Leandro Navarro. The 15th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2015), Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, May 4-7, 2015.
  • Integration of Assisted P2P Live Streaming Service in Community Network Clouds. M. Selimi, N. Apolonia, F. Olid, F. Freitag, L. Navarro, A. Moll, R. Pueyo, L. Veiga. The 7th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2015).

Topic 3: Development of a community cloud toolkit

  • Supporting Cloud Deployment in the Guifi.net Community Network. Javi Jimenez, Roger Baig, Pau Escrich, Amin M. Khan, Felix Freitag, Leandro Navarro, Ermanno Pietrosemoli, Marco Zennaro, Amir H. Payberah, Vladimir Vlassov. The 4th Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (GIIS 2013).
  • Deploying PaaS for Accelerating Cloud Uptake in the Guifi Community Network. Javi Jimenez, Pau Escrich, Roger Baig, Felix Freitag, Leandro Navarro. IEEE International Workshop on the Future of PaaS 2014, colocated within IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2014).
  • Cloud-based extension for Community-Lab, Mennan Selimi, Jorge L. Florit, Davide Vega, Roc Meseguer, Ester Lopez, Amin M. Khan, Axel Neumann, Felix Freitag, Leandro Navarro, Roger Baig, Pau Escrich, Agusti Moll, Roger Pueyo, Ivan Vilata, Marc Aymerich, and Santiago Lamora. IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2014), Paris, France, September 10-12, 2014.
  • Deploying Clouds in the Guifi Community Network. Roger Baig, Jim Dowling, Pau Escrich, Felix Freitag, Roc Meseguer, Agusti Moll, Leandro Navarro, Ermanno Pietrosemoli, Roger Pueyo, Vladimir Vlassov, Marco Zennaro. IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Network Management (IM 2015), Ottawa, Canada, May 11-15, 2015.

Topic 4: Network and service architecture for community network clouds

  • Community Clouds. Amin M. Khan, Felix Freitag, Leandro Navarro. In Encyclopedia of Cloud Computing. Editors: San Murugesan and Irena Bojanova. Wiley-IEEE, 2015. ISBN-13: 978-1118821978; ISBN-10: 1118821971
  • Towards Distributed Architecture for Collaborative Cloud Services in Community Networks. Amin M. Khan, Mennan Selimi and Felix Freitag. 6th International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS-2014).  Salerno, Italy, September 9-11, 2014.
  • The Cloudy Distribution in Community Network Clouds in Guifi.net. Felix Freitag, Roger Baig, Rodrigo Carbajales, Pau Escrich, Jorge Florit, Agusti Moll, Leandro Navarro, Ermanno Pietrosemoli, Roger Pueyo, Mennan Selimi, Vladimir Vlassov, Marco Zennaro. IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Network Management (IM 2015), Ottawa, Canada, May 11-15, 2015.
  • Cloud Services in the Guifi.net Community Network. M. Selimi, Amin M. Khan, E. Dimogerontakis, F. Freitag, R. Pueyo. To be published in Elsevier Computer Networks, 2015.

Topic 5. Sustainability of community ICT infrastructures

  • Analysis of the Social Effort in Multiplex Participatory Networks, Davide Vega, Roc Meseguer, Felix Freitag. 11th International Conference on Economics of Grid, Cloud, Systems and Services (GECON 2014), Cardiff, UK, September 16-18, 2014.
  • Crowdsourcing tools for designing, deploying and operating network infrastructure held in commons. Roger Baig, Ramon Roca, Felix Freitag, Leandro Navarro. Computer Networks.Special Issue on Crowdsourcing in Elsevier Computer Networks, 2015.
  • On the Sustainability of Community Clouds in Guifi.net. Roger Baig, Leandro Navarro, Felix Freitag. Submitted to the 12th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds,Systems and Services (GECON 2015), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, September 15-17, 2015.