On Sunday 05 October 2008 08:31, Daniel Cheng wrote: > 2008/10/4 Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org>: > > On Saturday 04 October 2008 02:23, Daniel Cheng wrote: > >> 2008/10/4 Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org>: > >> > On Friday 03 October 2008 17:27, Michael Rogers wrote: > >> >> Can't remember whether this has been raised before, but a random walk > >> >> terminates at a given node with probability proportional to the node's > >> >> degree; does this mean high-degree nodes are more likely to receive swap > >> >> requests than low-degree nodes? Seems like that could be disruptive in > >> >> two ways: > >> >> > >> >> 1) When a high-degree node changes its location, many other nodes are > >> >> affected. > >> > >> If you/vive/oskar are looking at the the degree thing... please review > >> this as well: > >> http://code.bulix.org/20bjpk-68537 > >> > >> This patch remove the opennet location from swapping -- > >> essentially seperating the darknet and openet. > > > > Why would that be beneficial? You're still treating them as the same for > > routing purposes? > > darknet links are stable, opennet links are not. > swapping should depends on (and only depends on) something stable, > or the location won't be stable.
Possibly. But then we have to figure out how to route between independant networks, which we haven't solved yet. > > >> >> 2) There might be some correlation between degree and other properties: > >> >> high-degree darknet nodes might belong to committed users with large > >> >> stores, in which case it's particularly disruptive if those nodes keep > >> >> moving. > >> >> > >> >> Just a thought. > >> > > >> > I don't know. This looks like a question for vive/oskar. > >> >> > >> >> Cheers, > >> >> Michael -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 827 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20081006/e0913630/attachment.pgp>
