The MANIAC Challenge
The Mobile Ad-hoc Networking Interoperability And Cooperation (MANIAC) Challenge is a multi-institution team competition with participants forming a real-world mobile ad hoc network. The objective of the competition is to observe the trade-offs experienced by teams in focusing towards delivery of their own packets versus cooperating in forwarding other teams' packets, essential in a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) to permit delivery across the network, at the expense of consuming their limited resources (battery life, bandwidth).
The competition was held on two days, 25th-26th November, 2007 along with IEEE GLOBECOM in Washington,DC.
The MANIAC winners are:
Strategy Award:
Ivan Klimek and Vladimir Sidimak
Technical University of Kosice - Dpt. of Computers and Informatics.
Performance Award:
Lin Li, Fan Li and Yu Wang
University of North Carolina at Charlotte - Computer Science.
Best Presentation award presented by the IEEE Globecom:
Lin Li, Fan Li and Yu Wang University of North Carolina at Charlotte - Computer Science