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freifunk

Free and open wireless networks

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9 GSoC years

2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2019 2018 2017 2016

2025

5 projects

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Simplifying LibreMesh with OpenWrt-Native Solutions

LibreMesh has grown over the past decade with valuable community contributions, but some of its features now duplicate tools available in OpenWrt....

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qaul RPC user authentication layer

The qaul RPC user authentication layer project aims to implement a secure and scalable authentication system for the qaul network, enabling multiple...

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Deep Q Network-based Rate Adaptation for IEEE 802.11ac Networks

This project aims to enhance Wi-Fi rate adaptation by integrating Deep Q-Networks (DQN) with the ORCA and RateMan frameworks. Traditional rate...

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Social Media Archive Explorer

This project aims to build a static, user-friendly site that serves as an archive explorer for Freifunk’s historical social media twitter posts....

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Adding Wi-Fi Support to QEMU Simulations in LibreMesh

LibreMesh relies on continuous testing to ensure its robustness across various network conditions and hardware setups. Currently, testing new...

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2024

6 projects

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LibreMesh Cable Purpose Autodetection

When a community network router ethernet port is acting as a gateway to the Internet or as a border to neighboring networks, the network...

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eBPF performance optimisations for a new OpenWrt Firewall

Project Description While the Linux network stack evolved throughout the past years with support for new protocols and features, it has become more...

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New Transmit Power Control approach for IEEE 802.11ax Wifi chips

Implementation of a novel TPC algorithm in the user space to develop a dynamic power controller, and then in the mac80211 subsystem of the Linux...

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Project Libremesh Pirania, new release.

After the publication of the New Pirania API, a lot has been gained with Pirania in Libremesh. Many communities could be used and even today they use...

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qaul BLE Module for Linux with BlueR

Qaul is an internet-independent wireless mesh communication app. With qaul, you can communicate directly from one device to another. This project...

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Visualise community data

The Freifunk project collects a snapshot of data from community groups every hour. This has been going on since 2014, and so far the project has...

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2023

6 projects

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LuCI Migration to JavaScript based Framework: Improved UX and Performance on OpenWrt-based Devices

LuCI is a framework used to build web interfaces for configuration and monitoring on embedded devices such as WiFi routers, etc. In the old CBI based...

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Qaul Matrix Bridge

Qaul is an Internet independent wireless mesh communication app. With qaul, you can communicate directly from one device to another. The aim of this...

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OpenWRT PPA Part 2

Original project proposal: https://projects.freifunk.net/#/projects?project=openwrt_ppa_part_2&lang=en Currently, compiling OpenWRT packages for a...

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Joint Power and Rate Control in User space for Freifunk OpenWrt Mesh & Access Networks

The IEEE 802.11 specification for Wireless Local Area Networking (WLAN) has been widely deployed worldwide due to its low cost and convenience in...

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Automation tools for LibreMesh firmware build and monitoring

Create a set of automated tasks to install services on a Raspberry Pi to meet the needs of small community-network with an administration/tech team,...

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Implementation of Web Interface of Retroshare

RetroShare is a C++ software program that comprises a headless lib called "libretroshare". This lib is utilized to implement Retroshare application...

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2022

8 projects

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Implement elRepo.io unit testing

ElRepo.io is an Android app that combines the RetroShare JSON API with a Flutter frontend aimed to share content into the RetroShare F2F network....

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Call a Friend

I will be working on converting the app source codes from java to kotlin, I’ll remove the extra features that the mentor suggests to be removed and...

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Traffic Monitoring and Classification via XDP/eBPF

1. Analysis of different approaches to run XDP and eBPF on openWrt devices 2. Integration of the tools and drivers into OpenWrt 3. Description of...

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Try LibreMesh without having a router

LibreMesh is a framework for creating OpenWrt- based firmware for Wireless mesh nodes. LibreMesh works in a decentralized way and is used as a base...

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Complete the Retroshare Web Interface

This proposal seeks to develop the Web Interface of Retroshare application. The primary goal is to develop as many features as in the RetroShare Qt...

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Minstrel-TX Rate Control in User space

Considering the wide deployment of IEEE 802.11 wireless networks and their shared use of the ISM band, there have been significant efforts in...

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TX-Power Control in WiFi Networks

Wireless communication and in particular WiFi networks are becoming more and more important. Research already focuses on improving reliability,...

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Videoodyssee : System Refactoring

Improving the video upload workflow and reimplementing the video processing pipeline using a better and maintainable CI/CD tool to support parallel...

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2021

7 projects

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OpenWRT PPA

Building a platform to support users and compile openwrt packages on the fly by building an executable, code ready docker image , ready to be...

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OpenWrt Device Page

Create an overview of OpenWrt supported devices to simplify user choice of acquiring new devices

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Irdest Android Client

irde.st is a software suite that allows users to create an internet-independent, decentralized & ad-hoc wireless mesh network. It removes all the...

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LibreMesh Pirania UI

This proposal seeks to improve the implementation of the administration interface of the Pirania captive portal which is implemented in LibreMesh.

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Retroshare Mobile

RetroShare provides a decentralized, encrypted connection with maximum security between nodes where they can chat, share files, mail, etc. Retroshare...

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Updation of the Json Schema to latest version (2020-12)/draft7 along with the form generation and validation with the updated schema of the tools

Updating the JSON schema to the latest version (2020-12)/draft7 and updating the tools which uses JSON schema to generate forms and validate form...

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Android native app for network selection capability in LibreMesh routers

One practical barrier for the usage of local network web-based applications (such as the LimeApp) in Android devices is that browsers don't allow the...

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2019

10 projects

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Unit testing LibreMesh

Integrate a testing and mocking framework to LibreMesh and provide the functionality needed to easily write new tests for actual or new code. Add...

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Designing RetroShare for Android with chat backend improvements

Retroshare is a highly sophisticated communication platform which is accessible only on desktops. This project aims to develop a mobile application...

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RetroShare port web interface to JSON API

Retroshare has an existing WebUI interface which covers the basic functionality of the client. However it has limited functionality and does not make...

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WireGuard Tunneling for BMX7

BMX7 offers plugins which are used for the distribution of small files, settings up tunnels or offer stats of the network structure. Currently the...

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Load-correlated distributed bandwidth analysis for LibreMesh networks

Performance tests are key for identifying the bottlenecks and optimize the network topology. The main indicator is the bandwidth, but also other...

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Build a qual.net network simulator to enable automated testing

qual.net’s Rust rewrite will enable improved modularity, performance, and security, but rewriting an entire system in a new and rapidly evolving...

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ConTest - Wireless resource allocation algorithm testing framework

This project provides a framework for reproducible wireless resource allocation algorithm testing. This will ease the benchmarking and the...

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OpenWrt Firmware Wizard

The Project has 3 sub-parts which are described as: Initial Firmware Retrieval: People who want to update their device, often do not know what...

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qaul.net HTTP API

Regarding the development of an API for the qaul.net rewrite along with a configuration and message management system.

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Library to export/import public datasets to Retroshare network

I would to create a reference library capable to interact bidirectionally with RS and outside it, engaging people to create apps, bots, and other...

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2018

12 projects

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Kernel space SOCKS proxy for Linux 4.x

Currently no open source SOCKS proxy available for recent kernel versions. In fact router proxification depends on user-space proxy applications....

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Design network agnostic communication protocol

My goal is to design a new protocol for qaul.net. The current protocol is very heavily coupled to olsr which is used for all networking tasks. To...

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Local Phone App

The project consists of constructing an android app which allows a quick exchange of contact data through a QR-code and thus serverless p2p voice- as...

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Better map for nodewatcher

The idea is to replace the original map with a new one that looks better and represents nodes in a better way. Currently the map is very basic and...

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LibreNet6

https://projects.freifunk.net/#/projects?project=libremesh_librenet6_integrations&lang=en LibreMesh already does extensive use of IPv6 technology, we...

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VRConfig - Visual Router Config for OpenWrt

Improve the usability and beginner-friendliness of OpenWrt's LuCI Web Interface by creating a picture-based visual router configuration

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nodewatcher: Build system rework and package upstreaming

Nodewatcher currently uses Dockerized OpenWrt firmware builders which are manually generated. Currently, their generation is slow and complicated...

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Realizing a decentralized WiFi Controller

Decentralized WiFi controller DAWN is a decentralized WiFi controller. So far the daemon concentrates on load balancing to distribute the network...

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Re-write the Turnantenna code

Turnantenna is now a prototype, and the code was written for a specific driver and for a specific motor. My project includes: • 1 more motor, in...

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Easily Expandable Wireless Intrusion Detection System

While analyzing already available Open Source Wireless Intrusion Detection Systems (WIDS), we realized that there is no full-featured solution yet....

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LibreMesh ground routing user friendly interface

Create a user interface for lime-hwd-ground-routing that is easy to use and understand.

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OpenWLANMap App

The goal of this project is to develop a new OpenWLANMap wardriver app to replace the old one, which is not working anymore in order to save and...

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2017

12 projects

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Spectrum Analyzer

I believe that Community Networks' Operating Systems could use the Spectrum Analysis a lot to make better decisions on how they use the...

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LibreMesh Attended Sysupgrade

Performing updates on routers is quite different from full Linux distribution. It's not sustainable to do release upgrade via a packet manager....

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Powquty Live-Log

PowQuty provides statistics from measurements taken by a USB oscilloscope. The statistics provide information about the power distribution network,...

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Add MPTCP support in LEDE/OpenWRT trunk

Create an MPTCP supported OpenWRT/LEDE trunk and ensure its operation in a multipath Wi-Fi aggregation environment. The trunk should contain the...

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lime-webui: port to LuCI2

Make an inventory of all LuCI components that LibreMesh uses and that will not be compatible with LuCI2. Analyze which dependencies must be replaced...

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netjsongraph.js: visualization of netjson data

NetJSON is a great work attracted some interest from around the world, but there are a lot of defects. And I’m a front-end developer and now focus on...

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geolocator (Software defined GPS)

A dynamical and flexible geolocator, which should give a GPS position based on WiFi information for devices which doesn't have GPS hardware but WiFi....

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OpenWRT/LEDE Configuration Management

Improve the proof-of-conecpt version of a OpenWRT/LEDE configuration software.

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Improving nodewatcher data representation capability

Currently nodewatcher has very limited overview of used IP space without more precise division of existing and used subnets. This could be improved...

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Implementing Pop-Routing in OSPF

Prince is a network daemon that continuosly monitors the network topology and sets the timers for OLSRv2, it is developed in C and we ...

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Extending LoxiGen and ONOS to enable SDN control of wireless switches via OpenFlow

LoxiGen is a tool by the Floodlight project to generate OpenFlow libraries for several programming languages including Java and C. The goal of this...

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RetroShare Improvements

The aim of this proposal is to improve RetroShare incrementally during the summer in the following work lines: Semi-automatic RetroShare friendship...

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2016

8 projects

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SWOON: Simultaneous Wireless Organic Optimization within Nodewatcher

In modern urban areas it is very common to experience a lot of Wi-Fi spectrum congestion in the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands. High density of...

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Implementing Pop-Routing

OONF (OLSRv2) is a link state routing protocol. It works sending periodical messages to his neighbors with the aim of transmitting information about...

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A schema-based configuration system for OpenWrt

I'd like to create an alternative to OpenWrt's UCI configuration system, improving on the following points: Structured (JSON-based) configuration...

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Provide a cryptographic implementation for Qaul.net

The Qaul,net project provides a mesh-wifi network for people to connect and share information to other people on the network, helping them avoid...

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DynaPoint - A dynamic access point validator and creator for OpenWrt/LEDE

Find an easily configurable solution for making the wireless access ssid in OpenWrt/LEDE dependent on a set of network conditions.

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netifd extension: external device handlers

In this project, we will extend netifd by a generic device handler interface, which is exposed via the ubus IPC system to enable interaction with...

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Monitoring and quality assurance of open wifi networks: the client view

Running a huge open wifi network that is split into different network areas needs monitoring to assure an appropriate quality of service to it's...

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OpenWrt - poWquty (poWer quality)

Sustainable energy production and consumption are crucial for a prospering life on earth. Decentralized energy production is one of the next big...

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