On Wednesday 06 February 2008 09:32, Michael Rogers wrote:
> On Feb 5 2008, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> >> I was under the impression that the random walks for swapping were long 
> >> enough to reach any node with roughly equal probability - I believe that 
> >> was Oskar's intention. If the random walks aren't escaping from local 
> >> clusters then we'll never be able to smooth out the clusters...
> >
> > Yes and no - in the case of poorly connected networks, the sheer capacity 
> > of the limited connections between the two networks produces a bias, 
> > doesn't it?
> 
> Good point - so even if there's no explicit swap limit it might be hard for 
> locations to move between clusters...
> 
> Here's an updated simulation with looping random walks and swap limits. The 
> last column of the output shows the fraction of swaps accepted - if you 
> multiply the swap limit by 4, all swaps are accepted so there's effectively 
> no limit.
> 
> The swap limit does prevent the subnets from completely segragating (even 
> without randomly resetting the locations), but there still are many columns 
> with 10-20% or 80-90% red nodes.

"Red" nodes?
> 
> Is this good or bad? It limits the impact of Sybil attacks, but on the 
> other hand it suggests that some "natural" topologies might never become 
> properly routable...
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
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