On Tuesday 05 August 2008 18:31, Michael Rogers wrote: > Matthew Toseland wrote: > > Well, a small world network has a low diameter almost by definition ... > > Exactly - MAX_DEPTH is set to 10, which is probably higher than the > diameter of the network, to make sure the success rate is very close to > 100%, because success rate isn't what I'm trying to measure. > > > you're sure it won't skew the results? > > Depends on what you're trying to measure. I'm interested in (1) how many > nodes an effectively unlimited search visits before finding the data,
Which you measure via the HashSet. > and (2) the length of the return path. Right. You show both of these outcomes? > If you also want to measure how > well a particular HTL scheme approximates an unlimited search then I > think you might need to run a separate set of simulations, otherwise you > won't be able to separate failures-due-to-HTL-scheme from > failures-due-to-caching-scheme. > > > Could you make the proposed change and re-run > > and see if it makes any difference to the outcome? (I'd expect more hops, > > more failures, so a more pronounced difference??) > > Sorry, I've lost access to those 50 PCs so I doubt I'll get it done any > time soon. > > >>> Also, do you use the request rate code? > >> No, there are no bandwidth limits in these simulations and the network > >> only handles one request at a time - I had to strip out as much as > >> possible to be able to simulate more than 100 nodes. > > > > Okay so it's just left-over code. > > Ah, sorry, I see what you mean now - I thought you were talking about > throttling. > > The request rate of a key represents its popularity. Requests for each > key are generated by a Poisson process with rate proportional to the > key's popularity, and each request runs to completion before the next > request starts. > > Cheers, > Michael -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20080805/ec024ef8/attachment.pgp>
