Perhaps a bit technical but I thought I'd throw it out there. j ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Eggert, Lars <lars@netapp.com> Date: Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:50 AM Subject: [IRTF-Announce] IRTF-cosponsored event: 3rd MANIAC Challenge To: "irtf-announce@irtf.org" <irtf-announce@irtf.org> Hi, the IRTF is a co-sponsor of the 3rd MANIAC Challenge on the Saturday before IETF-87 in Berlin. Lars -- ** Call for Short Papers for the 3rd MANIAC Challenge ** Co-located with the 87th IETF meeting in Berlin, Germany July 27 - August 2, 2013 http://2013.maniacchallenge.org Sponsored by: Google, ISOC, IETF, IRTF, ANR, and BMBF The MANIAC Challenge is a competition to better understand cooperation and interoperability in ad hoc networks. Competing teams students/researchers come together to form a wireless ad hoc network, while simultaneously connected to a backbone of access points. The organizers will generate traffic coming from the backbone, destined to somewhere in the network. A hop-by-hop bidding contest decides the path of each data packet towards its destination. Each team usually consists of two to three people. Teams will be judged based on how much of the traffic they relay gets to its destination. To get their traffic across the network, each team must rely on other teams willingness to forward traffic for them. We have developed software and an API over Android to allow teams to program their nodes, in particular override forwarding decisions made by the routing protocol and participate in the hop-by-hop bidding contest. ------------------------------------------------ Topic of 3rd MANIAC Challenge: Mobile Offloading ------------------------------------------------ The specific focus of the MANIAC Challenge 2013 is on developing and comparatively evaluating strategies to offload infrastructure access points via customer ad hoc forwarding using handhelds (e.g., smartphones, tablets). The incentive for customers is discounted monthly fees, and the incentive for operators is decreased infrastructure costs. The idea is to demonstrate scenarios/strategies that do not degrade user experience while offering significant mobile offloading on the infrastructure. Details about the scenario and competition rules are available at http://2013.maniacchallenge.org/rules-setup. ---------- Submission ---------- We solicit the submission of short papers (max. 2 pages IEEE double-column format) describing strategies for mobile offloading. After being peer-reviewed, authors of selected submissions will be invited to participate in the MANIAC Challenge and to attend the IETF meeting. We highly encourage authors to continue the development of the offloading strategy during the review time. Please, submit your short paper via email to maniac2013@lists.fu-berlin.de. ------------- Participation ------------- Author participation will consist in attending the MANIAC Challenge in Berlin, Germany, July 27 - 28, 2013. Authors are also invited to attend the IETF/IRTF meeting July 28 - August 2, 2013. Participation in the MANIAC Challenge is free of charge. Registration costs (at full-time student rate) for the IETF/IRTF meeting are sponsored by ISOC. Authors bring an implementation of the strategy described in the paper submitted by the author, running on the common API and the common hardware used for the event: the Nexus 7 tablet. The MANIAC API and software will be released with the notification of acceptance. Hardware will be provided by the organizers if necessary. Each participant will then concurrently run its strategy during the contest, taking place on July 27th at the Freie Universität Berlin. The following day, a workshop will take place at the IETF venue, where we will summarize and discuss the results of the contest. The winners of the MANIAC Challenge 2013 will be announced during the IRTF Open Meeting, which is part of the IETF/IRTF week with high visibility. The IRTF Open Meeting usually will be attended by more than 100 experts from industry and academia working on Internet Engineering. Winners will take home some prizes to be determined with sponsors. Competing teams will be provided complimentary IETF registration enabling them to attend the 87th IETF meeting in Berlin, July 28 - August 2nd. Details about the submission and participation are available at http://2013.maniacchallenge.org/participation/ ------------ Mailing List ------------ If you are interested in the MANIAC Challenge 2013, please subscribe to the mailing list maniac2013-info@lists.fu-berlin.de. We will inform you about updates. https://lists.fu-berlin.de/listinfo/maniac2013-info#subscribe --------------- Important Dates --------------- - Deadline for short paper submission: May 5, 2013 - Notification of acceptance: May 12, 2013 - Release of API and software: May 12, 2013 - MANIAC challenge dates: July 27 - 28, 2013 - IETF/IRTF meeting: July 28 - August 2, 2013 ---------------- MANIAC Co-Chairs ---------------- - Emmanuel Baccelli (INRIA) - Oliver Hahm (INRIA) - Felix Juraschek (Freie Universität Berlin) - Thomas Schmidt (HAW Hamburg) - Heiko Will (Freie Universität Berlin) - Matthias Wählisch (Freie Universität Berlin) ------- Contact ------- For questions, please contact maniac2013@lists.fu-berlin.de -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- -