[Tech] Position randomization

[Michael Rogers]

vive wrote:
> Not that I'm aware of. The current plan is to see if it appears under a
> network running Opennet (path folding) with added churn (nodes joining for
> a while taking a randomized position, participating some in swapping, then
> disappearing for good).

What's the reason to think that churn causes clustering? I can see how
#freenet-refs would create clusters of newbies, but it's not obvious to
me that churn would have that effect, on either darknet or opennet.

> Simulating a darknet-style network about if this is happening is more
> complicated, I don't know of a straightforward way to simulate churn where
> nodes leave for good in a darknet and with new ones arriving being placed
> well in the topology (with no path folding).

Could you place the new node at a random location and then connect it to
each existing node with probabilities given by the Kleinberg
distribution? (Or a more realistic social network model... but which one?)

Cheers,
Michael