On November 21, 2003 12:01 pm, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> On November 21, 2003 06:41 am, Ian Clarke wrote:
>
> > It seems that we aren't seeing the hoped-for specialization in NGR.
> > Rather than futzing about with all sorts of ideas while trying to test
> > them in the chaotic real network, we need a simple simulator to help us
> > test these ideas.
>
> 
> One idea to test on that simulator is are we specializing by key or
> for fast connections.  It seems to me that, by far, the largest chunks
> of the NG estimator are from transmission time...  When I did the
> first stabs at NG I was only basing it on search times and, if 
> memory serves, it was getting much better numbers.
> 
> Maybe we should be normallizing to a size that does not give
> a number much greater than transmission time?
than search time.  

Ed - who is pressing the enter key too quickly

> This implies that the simulator needs to be able to simulate
> both fast and slow nodes.

>
> > The simulator would model a set of Freenet nodes and use the actual
> > Estimator code from Freenet, but feeding samples from the simulator into
> > it.  Initially it would be very simple, each hop would be assumed to
> > take a uniform time, nodes would never QR, and all data is the same
> > size, and transfer rates are always the same.  This would at-least allow
> > us to gain a more intuitive understanding of how best to achieve
> > specialization in NGR.  This would also provide a useful distraction
> > from meddling with the real network so that we can allow it to settle
> > into a steady-state.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Ian.
> >
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