This page shows animations that illustrate the impact of join-leave churn on the distribution of node locations. The simulation assumes a certain stable core of nodes in the network (that do not churn). In each iteration, some nodes join the network with a random location, stay for a while (the routing algorithm performs a few swaps) and then leave.

As explained in our paper, this causes the locations of the nodes in the stable part of the network to implode towards some specific location over time.