https://www.netcommons.eu/?q=blogs/merkouris en https://www.netcommons.eu/?q=content/netcommons-eucnc-2018 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>In the week of 18-21 June, netCommons participated in the EuCNC 2018 conference, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. This was the <span>27</span>th<span> edition of a successful series of technical conferences in the field of telecommunications, sponsored by IEEE ComSoc and EURASIP, and financially supported by the European Commission, focusing on communication networks, systems, and services/applications. </span></p><p>The project contributions were multi-fold including: (a) a technical tutorial about community networks (CNs), their potential role in the future telecoms landscape and crucial considerations and analysis of their economic sustainability; (b) a position paper iterating critically on the priorities of the 5G vision and the questions it has left open, and describing how CNs could provide answers to them; and (c) a poster presentation of the AppLea mobile farming application, developed in the context of the project for the community served by the Sarantaporo CN, Greece.</p><p>All contributions well well received in a event with a strong technological flavor and considerable industry participation.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-featured-image field-type-image field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Image:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div id="file-358" class="file file-image file-image-jpeg"> <h2 class="element-invisible"><a href="/?q=file/358">fb_img_1529514550503.jpg</a></h2> <div class="content"> <img class="panopoly-image-original" src="https://www.netcommons.eu/sites/default/files/styles/panopoly_image_original/public/fb_img_1529514550503.jpg?itok=XkjuJ8LL" alt="" /> </div> </div> </div></div></div> Mon, 25 Jun 2018 12:31:10 +0000 merkouris 473 at https://www.netcommons.eu