Friendly clustering: the winning strategy of the maniac challenge 2009

We intend to demonstrate our strategy Friendly Clustering which was designed and implemented for the MANIAC Challenge. The MANIAC Challenge is a competition to develop cooperation strategies for mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs). MANETs usually comprise battery-powered nodes which may act selfishly by dropping packets destined to other network nodes in order to save energy. The detection of such behavior is important to exclude these nodes from the forwarding decision to minimize packet loss. For the demo, the strategy will compete against different variants of selfish and uncooperative behavior in a MANIAC competition round carried out on the DES-Testbed at the Freie Universitaet Berlin. Friendly Clustering won the Performance Award in the MANIAC Challenge 2009.