Well, I'd not want to expose that kind of level of detail, but simply communicate "on battery" vs. "on the grid". But yes, adding such a flag to the respective GNUnet message is (part of) the plan.
On 09/14/2017 08:34 PM, Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote: > That issue with battery consumption is indeed problematic. > > I'm not an expert on network stuff, but I wonder if there is a way to > make a distinguished "packet" that tells GNUnet (or GNU Ring) the peer's > power level, power supply health (if applicable), and based on this, > transfer the "hard work" to more capable peers (this is based on [1]). > > [1] <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6972>. > > Christian Grothoff <[email protected]> writes: > >> Well, I may be able to partially answer that question: Speaking for the >> GNUnet side, I personally simply don't think GNUnet is quite ready for >> GNU Ring at this time. >> >> Specifically, we need to make GNUnet easier to install and particular >> self-configuring in terms of the network stack (NAT traversal, etc.). >> For GNU Ring in particular, I've heard people being concerned about >> battery consumption, so we also need to work on the GNUnet-on-mobile >> scenario where peers can indicate that they are on a mobile phone and >> should not be routing traffic for others, least we drain people's >> batteries (and get terrible network performance on top of it). >> >> Once those things are fixed, I would hope the GNU Ring hackers will have >> time for a chat, and we'll find out if we could benefit from an >> integration. Until then, I would encourage them to prioritize other >> issues, even though I would of course like them to use GNUnet >> eventually. Now, if someone wants to see that happen, I'd very much >> look forward for people helping out with the issues mentioned in the >> previous paragraph -- but note that none of them are doable quickly. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> GNUnet-developers mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnunet-developers >> >
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