# ipfrs-network TODO
## ✅ Completed (Phases 1-3)
### Basic Networking Structure
- ✅ Initial libp2p setup structure
- ✅ Basic swarm configuration
- ✅ Peer ID types and management
### Phase 4 - 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 (15s 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
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## 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 (60s)
- Connection maintenance
- Target: Stable connections
- ✅ **Add connection metrics**
- Connected peer count tracking
- Bandwidth metrics framework
- Connection duration in events
- Target: Observable metrics
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## 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 (24h 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 (5min 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/1.0.0)
- Target: Rich peer info
### DHT Optimizations
- ✅ **Tune Kademlia parameters** (k-bucket size, alpha)
- KademliaConfig structure with tunable parameters
- Alpha concurrency (default: 3)
- Replication factor (default: 20)
- Query timeout (default: 60s)
- K-bucket size configuration (default: 20)
- 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 (10,000 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 (0.0-1.0)
- 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 ✅
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## Phase 6: 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
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## 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
- 12 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: 32 connections
- Mobile: 64 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)
- 15 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
- 14 comprehensive tests
- Example: bandwidth_throttling.rs
- Target: Network efficiency ✅
- ✅ **Optimize DHT query frequency**
- Query batching via QueryBatcher
- Rate limiting with adaptive adjustment
- Query deduplication (5s window)
- Preset configs (mobile, IoT, low-power, high-performance)
- Batching efficiency tracking
- 15 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
- 17 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()
- 17 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 (100 low-memory to 5000 server)
- Max addresses per peer (2-20)
- Max latency samples (3-20)
- Max protocols per peer (5-50)
- 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
- 14 comprehensive tests
- Target: Observable memory ✅
- ✅ **Create low-memory mode**
- NetworkConfig::low_memory() preset
- 16 connections max, 8 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 ✅
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## 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
- 13 comprehensive tests
- Target: Always available ✅
### Testing
- ✅ **Unit tests** for all network components
- 90+ comprehensive unit tests
- Bitswap protocol tests (10 tests)
- Connection manager tests (8 tests)
- DHT tests (10 tests)
- Health checker tests (6 tests)
- Logging tests (9 tests)
- Metrics tests (4 tests)
- Peer store tests (7 tests)
- Provider cache tests (7 tests)
- Bootstrap tests (5 tests)
- IPFS compatibility tests (6 tests)
- Connection migration tests (17 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 (1000+ addresses)
- Startup/shutdown stress testing
- Target: Robust networking ✅
- ✅ **Stress tests** (1000+ concurrent connections)
- High connection count testing (1000+ 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 100 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 (550+ 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 (650+ 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 (700+ 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 (850+ lines)
- Target: Configuration guide ✅
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## 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)
- 15 comprehensive unit tests
- Example: multipath_quic.rs with 5 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)
- 16 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)
- 12 comprehensive unit tests
- Example: tor_privacy.rs with 5 complete scenarios
- Target: Privacy-preserving networking ✅
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