On Monday 28 July 2003 04:21 pm, Toad wrote: > > One other thing, I read on article in Scientific > > American (May 2003, pages 60-69)about scale-free > > networks that was quite interesting. Intuitively, it > > seems that freenet is a type of scale-free network > > itself. One of the weaknesses of these types of > > networks is that they are vulnerable to attacks on hub > > nodes. My concern is the global mean traffic stat > > Freenet is intended to have all nodes hub nodes... it's not strictly > scale free. Theory suggests logarithmic scaling; some simulations > suggest O(n^0.27) or so.
I just read that article. Actually it had little to do with Freenet. (except as a compairson) Their definition of 'scale-free' was not 'infinitely scalable', but rather 'a network where the number of links per node follows a power law distribution'. So by this definition, the regular internet is 'scale-free' and Freenet is not. This is something Freenet tries to avoid precisely because it is easy to attack a hub, or central server. Move along noting to see here. _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
