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On 9th of February 2017, the annual Spectrum Challenge of University of Thessaly was held as the final competition between eleven teams that attented the HY448 class. In this competition the teams demonstrated their USRP-based radio design that could best use a given communication channel in the presence of other dynamic users and interfering signals. The Challenge was not focused on developing new radio hardware, but instead was targeted at finding strategies for guaranteeing successful communication in the presence of other radios that may have conflicting co-existence objectives. The Spectrum Challenge entailed head-to-head competitions between each team’s radio protocol and an opponent’s in a structured testbed environment based on the NITOS infrastructure.

 

Teams competing
Teams competing in the Semifinals of the Challenge

 

Results of each match are being analysed
Results of each match are being analysed

 

Isotropic Thunders, winners of the Challenge
Isotropic Thunders, winners of the Challenge

 

The Spectrum Challenge event included a poster session, where the teams had to defend their ideas in front of the research personnel of NITLab. Two awards were given to two selected teams. The Best Idea Award following the votes of the attendants was given to Phantomades and the Spectrum Challenge Award was given to the winning team, Isotropic Thunder.

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Phantomades team, winners of the best innovative idea as voted by the NITlab team

This was the 3rd year of a successful Spectrum Challenge that was inspired by the DARPA Spectrum Challenge.

Poster Session  
Poster Session