freenet/fred-staging — pull request #251 by bertm (2014-07-03 10:51:03+00:00)
Title: Add a plot of the FOAF link-length distribution to the statistics page.

This proposal adds a linear link-length distribution plot for friend-of-a-friend links to the statistics page. The plot includes a histogram (green) and a cumulative histogram (grey). This eliminates the need to run probe requests to quickly and roughly estimate the link-length distribution in the local neighbourhood.

The rationale behind using FOAF links and not local links is that we expect the FOAF links to be numerous enough to provide a reasonable estimate of the neighbourhood, where the local links don't give much information at all (especially on low-bandwidth nodes).

This could prove useful in the assessment of success of topology changes, such as those described in ```USK@ZLwcSLwqpM1527Tw1YmnSiXgzITU0neHQ11Cyl0iLmk,f6FLo3TvsEijIcJq-X3BTjjtm0ErVZwAPO7AUd9V7lY,AQACAAE/fix-link-length/1/```.