Re: Random walks

On Friday 03 October 2008 17:27, Michael Rogers wrote:
> Can't remember whether this has been raised before, but a random walk 
> terminates at a given node with probability proportional to the node's 
> degree; does this mean high-degree nodes are more likely to receive swap 
> requests than low-degree nodes? Seems like that could be disruptive in 
> two ways:
> 
> 1) When a high-degree node changes its location, many other nodes are 
> affected.
> 
> 2) There might be some correlation between degree and other properties: 
> high-degree darknet nodes might belong to committed users with large 
> stores, in which case it's particularly disruptive if those nodes keep 
> moving.
> 
> Just a thought.

I don't know. This looks like a question for vive/oskar.
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael

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