On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:56:58PM -0700, Mr . Bad wrote:
> >>>>> "IC" == Ian Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> IC> Not all complex systems are chaotic. I disagree that Freenet
> IC> is a chaotic system since it doesn't seem to be particularly
> IC> reliant on the initial configuration of the network (a chaotic
> IC> system would be).
>
> Really?! Are you saying that theoretically or from simulation?
Theory backed up by actual results.
> Seems
> to me that the combined initial state of each node's routing table is
> crucial for how the network ends up looking.
It depends on what you mean by "ends up looking". The way that we
choose to look at simulations is generally in terms of request success
rate, or the time required to satisfy requests, and from this
perspective, the network seems to behave in much the same way regardless
of initial state - which is random (success rate starts off low and
grows rapidly to about 98%, request time scales proportion to log(N)
where N is the network size etc etc).
Ian.
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