CRAWDAD metadata: vt/maniac (v. 2008-11-01)

The dataset comprises of routing and topology traces collected during the Mobile Ad hoc Networks Interoperability And Cooperation (MANIAC) Challenge, held on November 25-26th 2007 in conjunction with IEEE Globecom 2007.
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[Dataset] vt/maniac (v. 2008-11-01)

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version v. 2008-11-01
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bibtex
@MISC{vt-maniac-2008-11-01,
  author = {Amr Hilal and Jawwad N Chattha and Vivek Srivastava and Michael S Thompson and Allen B MacKenzie and Luiz A DaSilva and Pallavi Saraswati},
  title = {{CRAWDAD} data set vt/maniac (v. 2008-11-01)}, 
  howpublished = {Downloaded from http://crawdad.cs.dartmouth.edu/vt/maniac},
  month = nov,  
  year = 2008
}
					
metadata last modified2008-12-18
summary
The dataset comprises of routing and topology traces collected
during the Mobile Ad hoc Networks Interoperability And
Cooperation (MANIAC) Challenge, held on November 25-26th 2007
in conjunction with IEEE Globecom 2007.
release date2008-11-01
measurement start 2007-11-25
measurement end 2007-11-26
authorsAmr Hilal
Jawwad N Chattha
Vivek Srivastava
Michael S Thompson
Allen B MacKenzie
Luiz A DaSilva
Pallavi Saraswati
web site http://www.maniacchallenge.org/dataset.html
wiki go to the wiki page for this data set
keyword802.11, MANET
measurement purposesNetwork Performance Analysis
Routing Protocol
Energy-efficient Wireless Network
network type802.11 ad-hoc
environment
The dataset comprises of routing and topology traces collected
during the Mobile Ad hoc Networks Interoperability And
Cooperation (MANIAC) Challenge, held on November 25-26th 2007
in conjunction with IEEE Globecom 2007. 

The MANIAC Challenge is an NSF-funded competition to better understand 
cooperation and interoperability in ad hoc networks. Competing teams of 
students/researchers come together to form an ad hoc network. It has been 
held once in 2007 and the next challenge is in 2009
network
In the MANIAC Challenge 2007, the organizers generated traffic 
destined to each team. Teams were judged based on how much of the traffic 
destined to them made it through the network, how little energy they 
consumed in forwarding traffic and a subjective evaluation of the quality 
of their solution's design.
collection
In the MANIAC Challenge competition, an adhoc network comprising of 
nodes from all participating teams was formed and data was logged 
during three runs of the competition.

The data included traces for the routing tables generated at each node 
for each time instant during the tests, and topology traces generated 
from the route logs to record topology changes at each time instant.
tracesets included vt/maniac/2007 (v. 2008-11-01)

[Traceset] vt/maniac/2007 (v. 2008-11-01)

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version v. 2008-11-01
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the initial version.
bibtex
@MISC{vt-maniac-2007-2008-11-01,
  author = {Amr Hilal and Jawwad N Chattha and Vivek Srivastava and Michael S Thompson and Allen B MacKenzie and Luiz A DaSilva and Pallavi Saraswati},
  title = {{CRAWDAD} trace set vt/maniac/2007 (v. 2008-11-01)}, 
  howpublished = {Downloaded from http://crawdad.cs.dartmouth.edu/vt/maniac/2007},
  month = nov,  
  year = 2008
}
					
metadata last modified2008-12-18
summary
The data comprises of routing and topology traces collected
during the Mobile Ad hoc Networks Interoperability And
Cooperation (MANIAC) Challenge, held on November 25-26th 2007
in conjunction with IEEE Globecom 2007.
release date2008-11-01
measurement start 2007-11-25
measurement end 2007-11-26
measurement purposesNetwork Performance Analysis
Routing Protocol
Energy-efficient Wireless Network
methodology
The MANIAC Challenge is an NSF-funded competition to better 
understand cooperation and interoperability in ad hoc networks. 
Competing teams of students/researchers come together 
to form an ad hoc network. The organizers generated traffic 
destined to each team. Teams were judged based on how much of 
the traffic destined to them made it through the network, 
how little energy they consumed in forwarding traffic and a subjective 
evaluation of the quality of their solution's design. 

To get their traffic across the network, each team relied on 
other teams' willingness to forward traffic for them. We  
developed a software and an API to allow the teams to program their nodes 
and override forwarding decisions made by the routing protocol. 

We also developed network monitoring and management software 
to keep track in real-time of topology changes and traffic loads 
experienced by each node during the competition. 

In the MANIAC challenge, traffic was sent to participant nodes 
from reference nodes in the network. Teams were given the tools 
to monitor and manipulate traffic flowing around and through them, 
respectively. As teams participated and forwarded, they consumed 
resources (lose points), but as traffic affiliated with them reached 
its destination, they received points. The overall goal of 
the competition was to have the most points at the end of the competition.

More details about the MANIAC Challenge, including conference
papers analyzing the data collected, can be found at
www.maniacchallenge.org.

The data included traces for the routing tables generated at each
node for each time instant during the tests, and topology traces
generated from the route logs to record topology changes at each
time instant.

Each of the three runs of the competition lasted around 20 minutes. 
A total of 16 network nodes participated in the tests with IP addresses 
of the form 10.10.0.x, where x (the fourth octet) is in the set 
{21, 22, 24, 25, 40-51}.
parent datavt/maniac (v. 2008-11-01)
traces included vt/maniac/2007/routing (v. 2008-11-01)
vt/maniac/2007/topology (v. 2008-11-01)

[Trace] vt/maniac/2007/routing (v. 2008-11-01)

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version v. 2008-11-01
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bibtex
@MISC{vt-maniac-2007-routing-2008-11-01,
  author = {Amr Hilal and Jawwad N Chattha and Vivek Srivastava and Michael S Thompson and Allen B MacKenzie and Luiz A DaSilva and Pallavi Saraswati},
  title = {{CRAWDAD} trace vt/maniac/2007/routing (v. 2008-11-01)}, 
  howpublished = {Downloaded from http://crawdad.cs.dartmouth.edu/vt/maniac/2007/routing},
  month = nov,  
  year = 2008
}
					
metadata last modified2008-12-18
summary
The routing tables at each node that participated in each test during MANIAC 2007.
derivedfalse
release date2008-11-01
measurement start 2007-11-25
measurement end 2007-11-26
configuration
The routing logs contain snapshots of the routing tables at each
node that participated in each test at each time instant. 

The routing logs for each test are collected together.
format
In each test, a separate file is assigned for each node 
(the file name includes the node number which is the 4th octet of 
the node's IP address, expressed in decimal).

Each entry in the route logs starts with the time instant at which
the routing table was generated, followed by the routing table itself, 
as in this example:

10:48:29
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
10.10.0.48 10.10.0.43 255.255.255.255 UGH 2 0 0 eth0
10.10.0.49 10.10.0.43 255.255.255.255 UGH 2 0 0 eth0
10.10.0.50 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 1 0 0 eth0
10.10.0.51 10.10.0.50 255.255.255.255 UGH 2 0 0 eth0
10.10.0.22 10.10.0.43 255.255.255.255 UGH 2 0 0 eth0
10.10.0.40 10.10.0.43 255.255.255.255 UGH 2 0 0 eth0
10.10.0.25 10.10.0.43 255.255.255.255 UGH 2 0 0 eth0
10.10.0.24 10.10.0.43 255.255.255.255 UGH 2 0 0 eth0
10.10.0.41 10.10.0.43 255.255.255.255 UGH 2 0 0 eth0
10.10.0.42 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 1 0 0 eth0
10.10.0.43 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 1 0 0 eth0
10.10.0.46 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 1 0 0 eth0
10.10.0.47 10.10.0.43 255.255.255.255 UGH 2 0 0 eth0
10.10.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
note
Because the logging process was started before the competition
actually started, you will find the routing logs spanning a time
period larger than the actual 20 minutes of the competition runs.
The topology files that were generated from these logs were
adjusted to reflect the approximate start and end times of the tests.
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[Trace] vt/maniac/2007/topology (v. 2008-11-01)

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version v. 2008-11-01
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bibtex
@MISC{vt-maniac-2007-topology-2008-11-01,
  author = {Amr Hilal and Jawwad N Chattha and Vivek Srivastava and Michael S Thompson and Allen B MacKenzie and Luiz A DaSilva and Pallavi Saraswati},
  title = {{CRAWDAD} trace vt/maniac/2007/topology (v. 2008-11-01)}, 
  howpublished = {Downloaded from http://crawdad.cs.dartmouth.edu/vt/maniac/2007/topology},
  month = nov,  
  year = 2008
}
					
metadata last modified2008-12-18
summary
Trace of network topology and connectivity changed over the duration of the tests during MANIAC 2007.
derivedfalse
release date2008-11-01
measurement start 2007-11-25
measurement end 2007-11-26
configuration
The topology files show how the network topology and connectivity 
changed over the duration of the tests.
format
We generated a separate topology file for each test, each providing 
a snapshot of the network topology at each time instant. A sample 
entry in a topology file is as follows:

09:51:21
       21   22   24   25   40   41   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   51
21,1  0,0 48,4 49,3  0,0 49,3 49,3 48,2 48,3 48,2 49,2  0,1 48,2  0,1  0,1 48,2 48,3
22,1 45,3  0,0 45,2  0,0 51,2 45,2 45,2  0,1  0,1  0,1 45,2 45,2 45,2 45,3 45,2  0,1
24,1  0,0 43,2  0,0  0,0 45,2  0,1 43,2  0,1 47,2  0,1 43,2  0,1 45,2 43,2 45,2 45,3
25,1  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0
40,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0
41,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0
42,1  0,0  0,0  0,1  0,0  0,1  0,1  0,0  0,1  0,1  0,1  0,1  0,1  0,1 50,2  0,1  0,1
43,1 50,2  0,1  0,1  0,0  0,1  0,1  0,1  0,0  0,1  0,1 45,2  0,1  0,1 45,2  0,1  0,1
44,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0
45,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0  0,0
46,1  0,1 45,2 45,2  0,0 45,2 45,2  0,1 48,3 49,2  0,1  0,0 45,2  0,1  0,1  0,1 50,2
47,1  0,0  0,0  0,1  0,0  0,1  0,1  0,1  0,1  0,1  0,1 42,2  0,0  0,1 50,2  0,1  0,1
48,1  0,1 45,2 45,2  0,0 51,2 45,2  0,1  0,1  0,1  0,1  0,1 45,2  0,0  0,1  0,1  0,1
49,1  0,1 45,2 45,2  0,0 45,2 45,2 48,2  0,0  0,1  0,1  0,1 45,2  0,1  0,0  0,1 50,2
50,1  0,1 45,2 45,2  0,0  0,1 45,2  0,1  0,1  0,1  0,1  0,1  0,1  0,1  0,1  0,0  0,1
51,1 48,2  0,1 45,2  0,0  0,1 45,2  0,1  0,1  0,1  0,1 45,2  0,1  0,1 45,2 48,2  0,0

An entry in a topology file starts with the time instant at which
topology the snapshot was taken. A table showing the connections
between each pair of nodes in the network follows, where the row
represents the source node and the column represents the destination node.

Column and row headers contain the node identifiers for destination 
and source, respectively (as before, nodes are identified
by the fourth octet of their IP address, expressed in decimal). Row
headers also contain a flag next to the node identifier. This flag,
which can have a value of 0 or 1, indicates whether this node
logged a routing table at that particular time instant.

The reason we introduced this flag is to distinguish between the
case of a node that logged an empty routing table (flag value of 1)
and a node that did not log a routing table at all (flag value of 0) at
a particular time instant, where in both cases all the entries in the
row corresponding to that node will have the value of 0,0.
A general entry in the table that describes the route from node x
(the row) to node y (the column) is in the format (gw, hops). The
first field, gw, represents the gateway that node x uses to reach
node y, while the hops entry represents the number of hops in the
route.

An entry that has a value 0,0 indicates that node x had no route
to node y at that particular time instant. An entry that has a value
0,1 indicates that node x can reach node y directly (with no
gateway and in 1 hop) at that particular time instant. An entry that
has a value of a,b means that node x can reach node y through
gateway a and in b hops.

Note that routes between nodes x and y can be asymmetric. In
other words, it is not necessary that node y reaches node x using
the same route that x used to reach y. You may find, in some cases,
that node x could reach node y in 3 hops while node y could reach
node x in 2 hops or even had no route to node x.
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[Author] Amr Hilal

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emailamr.hilal@vt.edu
institutionVirginia Tech
departmentECE Department
positionPhD student
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[Author] Jawwad N Chattha

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emailchattha@vt.edu
institutionVirginia Tech
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[Author] Vivek Srivastava

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emailvivs@vt.edu
institutionVirginia Tech
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[Author] Michael S Thompson

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emailmichael.thompson@bucknell.edu
institutionBucknell University
departmentDept. of Electrical Engineering
positionAssistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
phone+1 570-577-3853
fax+1 570-577-1449
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[Author] Allen B MacKenzie

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emailmackenab@vt.edu
institutionVirginia Tech
departmentWireless @ Virginia Tech, Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
positionAssistant Professor
address302 Whittemore Hall (0111); Blacksburg, VA 24061
phone+1 540-231-3565
fax+1 540-231-3362
web site http://www.ece.vt.edu/mackenab/
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[Author] Luiz A DaSilva

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emailldasilva@vt.edu
institutionVirginia Tech
departmentWireless @ Virginia Tech, Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
positionAssociate Professor
phone+1 703-538-8302
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[Author] Pallavi Saraswati

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emailpallavi05@vt.edu
institutionVirginia Tech
departmentECE Department
positionGraduate student
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