This work presents a technological analysis of guifi. net, a free, neutral, and open-access
community network. Guifi. net consists of more than 27,000 operational nodes, which makes …

This sixth volume in Christian Fuchs' Media, Communication and Society series draws on
radical Humanist theory to address questions around the digital public sphere and the …

With the advent of 5G, cellular networks require a high number of base stations, possibly
interconnected with wireless links, an evolution introduced in the last revision of 5G as the …

Due to the lack of centralized identity management and the broadcast nature of wireless ad
hoc networks, identity attacks are always tempting. The attackers can create multiple …

Community networks are IP-based computer networks that are operated by a community as
a common good. In Europe, the most well-known community networks are Guifi in Catalonia …

The advent of IEEE 802.11 in the late 1990s spurred the development of new network
paradigms. In particular, new technology enthusiasts saw the potential of WiFi to bring …

As mobile broadband subscriptions grow twice as fast as the fixed ones and the Internet of
Things comes forth, the 5G vision of the Internet of Everything (people, devices, and things) …

Contemporary innovation in infrastructures is increasingly characterized by a close
relationship between experts and lay people. This phenomenon has attracted the attention …

Decentralization, in the form of mesh networking and blockchain, two promising
technologies, is coming to the telecommunications industry. Mesh networking allows wider …

Betweenness centrality is a popular metric in social science, and recently it was adopted
also in computer science. Betweenness identifies the node, or the nodes, that are most …