Re: [Sks-devel] Optimum number of peers

[Kiss Gabor (Bitman)]

> There are other definitions for "optimum" such as minimal propagation
> latency across all peers, or minimum distance to all other nodes.
> Almost certainly someone has modeled gossip protocols, lemme dig a bit.
> 
> The minimum distance is likely computable simply from collecting
> a snapshot of existing peers and then computing maximum path length
> for each node to all other nodes, and comparing your node with others.
> 
> Minimum latency would require a simulation perhaps, using a model with
> parameters derived from an existing log file to get the parametrs about right.

I don't worry about QoS and random errors at all.
However I would care with sabbotage.
An important characteristic of the topology is:
At least how many node should be blocked/destroyed/denied by
an attacker to split the network (graph) into two or more
unconnected parts?

Gabor