[p2p-hackers] clustering

[Jeff Rose]

It seems like people are always putting arbitrary restrictions on p2p 
systems and simulations in terms of connectivity, but is this really 
necessary?  Unless you are trying to use NATed nodes (assume we can 
punch or route through a neighbor),just about any pair of computers on 
the internet can be neighbors.  In essence the internet is a fully 
connected overlay graph.  All DHT's and other less-structured schemes 
are doing is deciding which links to send messages down.  So when you 
talk about "links existing" you just mean that a given pair maintains 
some amount of regular communication, or just that they know of each 
others existence in the network?  Maybe since you are coming from the 
freenet side of things connectivity has a lot more meaning than in other 
schemes?

-Jeff

Ian Clarke wrote:
> On 3/7/06, *Ranus* <networksimulator at gmail.com 
> <mailto:networksimulator at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hui Zhang has published a paper
>     named "Using the Small-World Model to Improve Freenet Performance". It
>     should correspond to your idea, so maybe you could read that.
> 
> 
> Be careful of this paper.  If I recall correctly, most of their results 
> can be attributed to the fact that they ensured that links existed 
> between adjacent nodes in the graph, which obviously would have a 
> dramatic beneficial effect relative to a network where local links may 
> be missing as it means that in the worst case you will do an exhaustive 
> search for the node you are looking for just by following local links.
> 
> Our findings, as presented in Oskar's thesis, are that Freenet-style 
> edge selection results in the desired degree of clustering without 
> "artificial" help.
> 
> Ian.
> 
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