[aprssig] Smart beaconing and the tragedy of the commons

[scott at opentrac.org]

There's a similar option in the OpenTracker.

Scott
N1VG
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From: William McKeehan [mailto:mckeehan at mckeehan.homeip.net]
To: bruninga at usna.edu, TAPR APRS Mailing List [mailto:aprssig at lists.tapr.org]
Sent: Wed, 23 May 2007 13:09:40 -0700
Subject: Re: [aprssig] Smart beaconing and the tragedy of the commons

I would suggest that people using a reasonable "Min Turn Time" (specific to
the TinyTrack3 terminology i.e., the amount of time that must have past
between beacons before a turn will trigger a beacon) these problems could be
eliminated and still give a reasonable route.
-- 
William McKeehan

On Wed, May 23, 2007 4:02 pm, Robert Bruninga wrote:
>> ...I for one am a little bit irritated that you
>> repeatedly blast SmartBeaconing while
>> having no experience with it.
>
> I have plenty of experience with it.  Most any day,  most any
> time.  All I have to do in my APRS is hit the SORT by LOAD
> button and see who is hitting out 99 beacons per hour (the max I
> capture), and it invariably is people running smart beaconing.
>
> Yes, -those- users are very happy with smart-beaconing, since
> every single stop, start, turn and run is precisely documented
> as they run around town or commute.  I am sure they are very
> pleased with smart beaconing.  But it is at the expense of
> everyone else.
>
> To me, NUMBER ONE in APRS is the network, and sharing it
> equitibly among all users and getting consistent results.  In
> most areas, we simply cannot afford to have every corner pegged
> for every user!  If people want nice tracks, then they should
> record their own GPS data and play it back on their own PC.  Not
> try to do this on a single 1200 baud channel trying to be shared
> by 100 other users.
>
> Again, I ask everyone to please step back, and read the "tragedy
> of the commons" (on the fix14439 page).  Place the equitable
> sharing of the network formost in your mind and lets work
> together to come up with some smart beaconing settings that are
> equitable, under all conditions.  (since the number one problem
> is set-and-forget human nature)...
>
> If we can come  up with a smart beaconing algorithm that is best
> for the network and fails-safe, then I am happy to support it.
>
> Bob, WB4APR
>
>
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