On Feb 20, 2008, at 8:17 AM, Michael Rogers wrote: > On Feb 7 2008, Matthew Toseland wrote: >>> Perhaps a node should only attempt to reduce its own stress (in >>> Robert's terms), rather than the product of its stress and the >>> other node's stress? >> >> That's an interesting idea. Wouldn't it result in much slower >> network evolution? Simulate it, if it looks promising we should ask >> Oskar. > > The results seem pretty similar to the current method, at least in > terms of minimising the distance between neighbours (I haven't > tested routing yet). > > Cheers, > Michael
A non-obvious ramification of this change (but one which is probably good) would be that nodes with fewer peers get a better shot at having a valid position. Right now, whenever a node with a bunch of peers looks to swap with a node with only one or two; it will pretty much *always* get the position it wants (because each peer is weight the same & the general position is looked at). This is the effect which Zothar previously brought to mind; that darknet-only nodes (fewer connections) tend to roam a lot more. -- Robert Hailey
