On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 07:32:51AM -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > On July 16, 2003 11:50 pm, Zlatin Balevsky wrote: > > Possible improvements over using a fixed number of reference points and > > straight lines between them would be : > > Once ng is fully working, this is worth playing with. We need to optimize it > for good estimations with a minimum of data. Maybe we can get the 'shape' > of the initial curve from a global estimator and change its co-efficients to > make the node look better and adjust as we route. Think we want to > consider more than 10 points.
Indeed - one great thing about NG routing is that we can make this kind of change locally and easily see whether it has a positive or negative effect by monitoring the mean difference between estimated and actual routing times. A developer could then only check it into CVS if it has a positive effect. Ian. -- Ian Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coordinator, The Freenet Project http://freenetproject.org/ Founder, Locutus http://locut.us/ Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ian/
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