== NTK_RFC 0005 ==

Subject: Life probability 

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Statistically, the probability of a link to continue to stay up is
proportional to its uptime, f.e. it's more probable that a link with 1200
seconds of uptime is more stable than 10 seconds old link.

For this reason we give higher credits to older links, this means that
we prefer to avoid routes which contain very young links.
The uptime of a route is the uptime of the youngest link.

{{{
		A
	       / \
	      L   K
	       \ /
                N
}}}

Let's say K-A has an uptime of 600 seconds and L-A of 200.
The node N, to reach A, will prefer the route N-K-A.

=== Implementation ===

In the TP we record the uptime of each traversed link. In this way, the node
receiving the TP will be able to discriminate young routes from stable ones.

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related: [Netsukuku_RFC]