"Small world" is primarily a property of the connection topology - the network, stripped of all location information. Swapping takes the network and assigns locations so that it is routable.
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:08:10PM -0600, David Sowder (Zothar) wrote: > I'm trying to resolve something in my mind about the small world model > and how it relates to Freenet. My understanding has been that the > relation was in Freenet node location distances and my assumption was > that the swapping algorithm was intended to optimized the "small world > model" of an arbitrary set of connections such that, in my mind, it > would theoretically settle on all nodes having a small world > distribution of peers: increasing numbers of peers as shorter distances > from a given node. > > Toad has informed me on IRC a bit ago that the swapping algorithm does > not make arbitrary interconnections achieve "small world", which leaves > me with these questions: > > Is there more than one metric for which we are trying to achieve "small > world"? If so, could that be confusing things for others as well? > > Can a given node and a list of potential peers be used to create a small > world model, at least from the perspective of the given node? I assume > this is somehow possible as I understand it that opennet will be doing this, > > Some of you may already know where I'm likely going with this. What can > opennet built into fred do that a program like refbot.py couldn't do? > Could refbot.py potentially say, add 50 peers and then remove (in an > orderly fashion) all but 15 based on a small world location/distance > distribution to achieve a small world model if say, all/most nodes were > using this same algorithm? > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20070305/1a5ddb22/attachment.pgp>
