Welcome to SpoVNet

SpoVNet (Spontaneous Virtual Networks) is a research project in the "Baden-Württemberg Support Programme for Information Technology" (BW-FIT) funded by Baden-Württemberg Stiftung GmbH. It was launched in 2006 and is now in its second funding period.

From 2006 to 2009, the universities of Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Stuttgart (IPVS, IKR) and Tübingen participated in SpoVNet. Since 2010, the universities of Karlsruhe, Mannheim und Stuttgart participate in SpoVNet.

A couple of Open Source Projects originated in SpoVNet.

Current events

News Item June 29th 2010
SpoVNet organizes the second "Workshop on Architectures, Services and Applications for the Next Generation Internet". It takes place on Juni 29, 2010, in Karlsruhe.
News Item August 21st 2009
The Ariba Group attended this year's ACM SIGCOMM 2009 in Barcelona to present the demo "Reconnecting the Internet with ariba: Self-Organizing Provisioning of End-to-End Connectivity in Heterogeneous Networks".
News Item June 7th 2009
The first Software Release of UNISONO is open for download.
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Important Dates

2010-06-29 // Workshop 2010
The second "Workshop on Architectures, Services and Applications for the Next Generation Internet" will take place at Karlsruhe. more…

2010-01-01 // SpoVNet 2.0
SpoVNet starts its second funding period. Main focus are higher flexibility and the transfer to users.

2009-11-20 // Inspection by the advisory board
The scientific advisory board rates the SpoVNet project as successful and is impressed by the SpoVNet demonstrator.

2008-07-17 // Workshop 2008
The first "Workshop on Architectures, Services and Applications for the Next Generation Internet" took place at Karlsruhe. mehr…

2008-10-24 // Inspection by the advisory board
The scientific advisory board recommends the continuation of the SpoVNet project.

2008-04-01 // Workshop of BW-FIT projects
SpoVNet convinces reviewers in a talk and with several demonstrators. The project will be continued.

2006, September // Project SpoVNet initiated.