I see that a number of people are keen to find a way to better-use nodes which may not be up 24/7, but are up a lot.
One solution is for each node to maintain some metadata with their reference, basically 24 values, each the probability that they will be online in each hour of the day (relative to GMT). This data could be passed around with the nodes reference, and factored into the contact probability for that node. I assume that many nodes that are not up 24/7, will be up at reasonably predictable hours of the day. Having said that, I am really not sure if this is worth the effort. Ian. -- Ian Clarke ian@[freenetproject.org|locut.us|cematics.com] Latest Project http://cematics.com/kanzi Personal Homepage http://locut.us/
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