[Tech] Topologies of Freenet

[Jano]

Michael Rogers wrote:

> On Oct 17 2007, Matthew Toseland wrote:
>> What is mixing?
> 
> If you take a large number of random walks from randomly chosen nodes, the
> probability of ending up at each node converges towards what's called the
> stationary distribution as the walks get longer. If the convergence
> happens quickly, ie a short random walk is nearly equivalent to an
> infinitely long random walk, the graph is said to have a fast mixing time.
> In other words if a graph is fast mixing, the local structure is in some
> sense a good representation of the global structure.

Just saw this paper in the last TOC. I have only read the abstract and not
perusing it, but perhaps my be interesting:

The Convergence-Guaranteed Random Walk and Its Applications in Peer-to-Peer
Networks 

http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/trans/tc/&toc=comp/trans/tc/5555/01/t1toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/TC.2007.70837