Re: Position randomization

On Friday 17 August 2007 17:55, Michael Rogers wrote:
> vive wrote:
> > I'm not claiming it will typically happen, but its good to experiment
> > with it to know some about how important clustering is.
>
> True - I can't see how a constant supply of random positions would lead
> to greater clustering but I'm not saying it definitely wouldn't happen
> either! :-)

On a partially darknet network, or even possibly on an opennet, due to some 
nodes having much higher uptimes than others (downtime is quite disruptive to 
a reasonably dynamic opennet), it is likely that there will be some 
clustering. 
>
> > Should be correct directly after generated from Kleinbergs model. But
> > what do you mean with current locations? Referring here to the current
> > locations on the circle, where closeness does not have to mean being
> > close in the network after having swapped and done destination sampling
> > (where positions affect swapping). Is your suggestion to introduce nodes
> > in roughly the same part of the network where others just disappeared?
>
> Not necessarily - wherever the new node appears on the circle, isn't the
> important thing the relationship between its distance (on the circle)
> from other nodes and its probability of being connected to them? Why
> would the connections between the other nodes make a difference?
>
> Cheers,
> Michael

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