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q Random walks are useful for search
and routing in networks
q with unreliable or incomplete information on target nodes
q Random walks outperform flooding for large
hop distances
q Many options for combining routing,
flooding & random walks
q for improved performance in different scenarios
q Transient analysis yields accurate
evaluation of random walks
q - for the
basic case and many variants
q - is
scalable for networks of large size
q - bounds can
be given on convergence behaviour