[freenet-dev] Routing enhancement

[Robert Mead]

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Michael Rogers wrote:
> Matthew Toseland wrote:
>> We should in the near future implement reliably exposing our peers' locations 
>> to our peers, and use it to implement using our peers' peers' locations for 
>> better routing. According to Oskar and Vive, who refer to published papers, 
>> this should significantly improve performance relative to simple greedy 
>> routing. I believe the correct algorithm is to simply route to the node which 
>> either has the closest location to the target, or whose best peer is closest 
>> to the target.
> 
> One issue to consider: what happens when nodes go offline? There's no
> point routing to my peer based on his peer's location if his peer is
> offline, so how often do we need to update this information and what are
> the traffic and anonymity implications of doing so?
> 
> Just a thought,
> Michael
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Weight by uptime?
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