Ninux.org is a

wireless community network Wireless community networks (WCNs) or wireless community projects or simply community networks, are non-centralized, self-managed and collaborative networks organized in a grassroots fashion by communities, NGO's and cooperatives in order to provi ...

in Italy, a free, open and experimental computer network. The main idea is that users build their own computer network without central control or property, as opposed to traditional Internet service providers (ISP), where a single entity owns and manages the network. The initiative is based on the Ninux manifesto, the Wireless Commons Manifesto and the Picopeering Agreement. In these agreements participants agree upon a network that is free from discrimination, in the sense of

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. With 352 active nodes and 2216 planned nodes, it is one of the top ten wireless community networks in the world in number of active nodes. Ninux is part of the international movement for open wireless radio networks. For more information on such projects around the world, see

. Since 2013, Ninux is an experimental member of the NaMeX

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in Rome.

History

It was born in Rome around 2002 and now spanning all over Italy. Its name currently stands for "Neighborhood Internet, Network Under eXperiment". In fact, Ninux.org has been testing devices, auto-built antennas and routing protocols while exchanging knowledge with the other Community Networks in Europe. Ninux has participated since its early editions in the organization of the Battlemesh. Member since 2014 of the Community-Lab.netCommunity-Lab.net
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References

External links

An analysis of the Ninux wireless community network
L. Maccari, IEEE 9th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), 2013.
Detecting Incidents in Wireless Mesh Networks using Flow and Routing Information
Lothar Braun, Alexander Klein, Leon Aaron Kaplan, Georg Carle
COMPUTER SCIENCE 2011 Conference
TU-Berlin, 2011.
Analysis of commons based organisations and a collaborative environment for the "Bottom-up Broadband" initiative in Europe
Adriana Marti Hoppmann, Llorenç Cerdà Alabern, Llorenç (Catalan).
An interview with Freifunk and Ninux in the International Summit of Wireless Community Networks in Berlin, 2013A reference in free open networks and one of the first organisations in Italy to implement IPv6
*Wireless Networking in the developing world. A practical guide to planning and building low-cost telecommunications infrastructure, 3rd edition, Feb. 201
Ninux is part of the CONFINE FP7 FIRE Integrated Project for research in community networksdraft-funkfeuer-manet-olsrv2-etx-00
Packet Sequence Number based ETX Metric for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, 2010. *{{youtube, xztMyUXfS9M, Ninux Day 2009 Video Internet service providers Community networks Wireless network organizations