The problem with Freenet performance right now is not altruism with regards to store space. 99% of users use opennet, and on opennet, fast nodes tend to get connected to fast nodes, hence there is a clear incentive for having a big store etc; if a node is not good at answering requests it will tend to get diverted to slower peers. One of the biggest right now is probably churn - lots of people try Freenet, figure out that it's slow and then go away, and this in itself slows down the network and breaks storage, but also the fact that many nodes run very much less than 24x7 and this is a problem for storage.
Trading storage of individual blocks is not likely to help matters because we want blocks to move to wherever is closest to their locations, modulo demand. Having said that, there may be useful quid-pro-quo systems in other areas e.g. load management. Perhaps a new node should only have limited access until it proves itself? This might help to prevent flooding and DoS attacks, but it would make new nodes even slower than they already are ... On Wednesday 25 March 2009 10:13:30 David Cabanillas wrote: > Name David Cabanillas > Email davidcabanillas75 at gmail.com > Project Title FreeSwap > Benefits to the Freenet Community The proposal wants to assure that the > nodes offer free space without either presence of altruistic participants > nor general norms. > Expected Results > o Improve the data storage process assuring that the nodes offer > free space to store information. > The idea is not rely on altruistic nodes. My approach is to use > a bartering mechanism at the moment to > include new data in the system. When a node wants to add a > content X in the system, it should accept store a > content from the system. Apart from the advantage that apply a > "quid pro quo" policy (i.e bartering) this approach avoid > a massive stored content from malicious nodes. > > Project Schedule - How long will the project take? When can you begin work? > Do you have any other commitment for the summer? > > I expect to work during 3-4 months. The idea is to start the project on May > and to finish on September. A short > description about the scheduling: > o In May review the architecture in special interest in how the > data is added to the system > o From Jun to August deploy the system > o In September to test and review the performance of the system > > Right now, I'm in a period of time where I have not many tasks to do. > This is good because I can read books and I may make many other things but > the bad point is that > the incoming funds have fallen :( > > Bio - Who are you? What makes you the best person to work on this project? > > I'm from Barcelona (Spain) during the last years have been doing my PhD. in > artificial > intelligence. I have experience in Java and some other languages. In the > future I want > to work as teacher in some University/school. When I have free-time I put on > my trainers > and I run during kilometers around my city. To me run is a way to escape. > > With respect the project I believe that this project is a good opportunity > to me in many aspects: > To work in a project very related with my academical and research work is > good for my curriculum and > it could be a personal experience. But the most important point is that I > want to show me that I'm > capable to work in an exciting project > > > -- > bye > --david > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090326/07d8cf34/attachment.pgp>
