Congratulations to the Cypriot Team!!!

George Michael, Philppos Hadjimichael and Paris Iona won the 2nd place in the MANIAC Challenge '09! The competition took place on March 8-9 at PerCom 2009 Galveston, Texas. The Cypriot Team came second among nine teams from different Universities from all over the world. What's important to note is that the group from the University of Cyprus was the only team with undergraduate students.

During the Competition

Congratulations guys!!!

MANIAC Challenge'09
MANIAC Challenge will next be held on March 8-9 at PerCom 2009 Galveston, Texas.

What is the MANIAC Challenge?
The MANIAC Challenge is an NSF-funded competition to better understand cooperation and interoperability in ad hoc networks. Competing teams of students/researchers will come together to form an ad hoc network. The organizers will generate traffic destined to each team. Teams will be judged based on how much of the traffic destined to them makes it through the network, how little energy they consume in forwarding traffic and a subjective evaluation of the quality of their solution's design.

Goal of MANIAC Challenge Project
This project establishes a multi-institution competition. The MANIAC Challenge, that allows us to study the tension between the desire of nodes to focus only on delivery of their team's packets (in order to preserve battery life and competitive advantage) and the need for nodes in a MANET to cooperate in order to permit the delivery of packets across the heterogeneous network.

Organizers
The principal investigators for the MANIAC Challenge are Dr. Luiz DaSilva and Dr. Allen MacKenzie, from Wireless @ Virginia Tech. Dr. Michael Thompson, of Bucknell University, is also a collaborator in this project.

This year, University of Cyprus sent a team of three students to the MANIAC Challenge, in Galveston, Texas. We wish all the best for the Cypriot team! Good Luck Cyprus!

For more information about the MANIAC Challenge: http://www.maniacchallenge.org