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Thanks for the pointers, I'll look them up! > The question is what benefits does the meshnet provide over the mixnet style schemes? My Isochronous grid/mesh p

Thanks for the pointers, I'll look them up! > The question is what benefits does the meshnet provide over the mixnet style schemes? My Isochronous grid/mesh protocol is designed to operate at the network layer. The TCP/IP Internet has: * High and Unbounded Latency * Wasteful, Underused Links * Low Redundancy * A Tendency to Centralize Power * Choke-point Surveillance and Censorship * Disaster Vulnerabilities * Tragedy of the Commons I think a mesh network with non-centralized per-byte pricing can make a big dent in all of these. A meshnet built on top of a starnet is like trying to build a road network on top of a train network: It's not economically feasible and ultimately pointless.

arghnoname 11y ago
I see. I'm not sure if all of these things are fundamental to TCP itself, but instead are economic and regulatory results. Something to think about. It's not my area so I don't have specific cites, but data centers are effectively meshes. I know there has been work on different ways to transit data within them other than stock TCP/IP. Network coding, for instance, is a pretty cool way to splat data among a whole bunch of interconnected people and UDP to all your peers is a good medium to do it over. There's also work on multipath TCP (MCTCP, others) to help utilize other idle links. I'd check the literature on that, typically under the data center track at networking conferences.