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[FYI] "FreeNet"
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Ian Clarke - May 23rd 1999, 20:44 EST
A pre-release of a report describing "FreeNet" has been made
available to obtain comments from the Internet public. The report
is entitled "A Distributed Decentralised Information Storage and
Retrieval System". The system is designed to avoid having any form
of centralised control or administration, allowing participating
computers to act together in a form of organised anarchy. It will
allow anybody to store information, and is designed to make
censorship of any form difficult or impossible. The report is
available here in downloadable postscript, and browsable HTML.
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See
http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/~iic/4yp/
http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/~iic/4yp/report.html
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Next: Contents
A distributed, decentralised information storage and
retrieval system
Ian Clarke
Supervisor: Dr Chris Mellish
School of Artificial Intelligence, School of Computer Science,
Division of Informatics,
University of Edinburgh.
Abstract:
This paper describes an algorithm which if executed by a group of
interconnected nodes will provide a robust key-indexed information
storage and retrieval system with no element of central control or
administration. It allows information to be made available to a large
group of people in a similar manner to the ``World Wide Web''. The
system's reliability is not guaranteed, nor is its efficiency, however
the intention is that the efficiency and reliability will be
sufficient to make the system useful, and demonstrate that such a
system is feasible. The system is considered as a potential
replacement for the ``World Wide Web''. Improvements over this
existing system include:
- No central control or administration required
- Anonymous information publication and retrieval
- Dynamic duplication of popular information
- Transfer of information location depending upon demand
There is also potential for this system to be used in a modified form
as an information publication system within a large organisation which
may wish to utilise unused storage space which is distributed across
the organisation.
This paper also describes several experiments designed to measure the
efficiency and reliability of such a network. These are performed upon
a simulation of a working network written in the Java programming
language. Improvements over the existing ``World Wide Web'' are also
highlighted in this paper. The algorithm is considered a prototype,
and areas for further study and potential improvement are highlighted
throughout this paper.
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Aims
3 Project structure
4 Related Work
5 Initial Ideas - A redundant hierarchy
6 Final Design - An adaptive network
7 A simple simulation
8 A full simulation
9 Experiments
10 Areas for further investigation
11 Conclusion
12 Acknowledgements
References
About this document ...
Ian Clarke
Sun May 23 23:39:59 BST 1999
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