Liberouter: Towards autonomous neighborhood networking

We present the Liberouter framework, a complete communication system design (and its implementation) to enable neighborhood networking without relying on the Internet infrastructure for information exchange. The core is a low-cost router platform that serves as WLAN access points, individual or (dis)connected ones, and offers message storage and relaying in combination with a distributed app store. It allows bootstrapping Android devices to become additional routers (and thus expand the network) and install applications. It also instruments other mobile devices to assist in message forwarding and offers web-based access to content of the neighborhood stored locally.