I'll look into this. I need a project badly.
Should fit in well with my BS in whatever degree.
Also I managed to create a demo of that key exchange idea I posted some
time agao. Just needs a little clean up.
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 15:53:27 Ian Clarke wrote:
> If there is anyone out there thinking of doing some kind of research
> project (for school/university) and who migh be interetsed in doing
> something Freenet related, I have a perfect suggestion.
>
> One important issue is that of document longevity in Freenet. The
> current approach basically removes documents on the basis of which was
> least recently accessed, although a bias against large files was
> introducted in version 0.3.
>
> So one very important question is how long does a document last in
> Freenet (assuming no requests for that document), and how is this
> affected by differences in the size of the document and the HTL with
> which it was inserted.
>
> The best way to approach this question would probably be to use one of
> the simulations (although none, that I am aware of, currently
> incorporate the size bias). Experiments could be conducted with the
> simulation, and then the same experiment could be repeated on the actual
> network (by inserting files, and after a measured amount of time,
> attempting to request them - and noting the percentage of successes for
> different file sizes, and different HTLs). This would allow the
> simulation's accuracy to be measured.
>
> Any takers?
>
> Ian.
>
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