The content introduces Konnektor, a connection protocol designed to ensure peer uniqueness in decentralized peer-to-peer networks.
The key highlights and insights are:
Decentralized networks face challenges in maintaining the uniqueness of each peer, unlike centralized architectures where ensuring uniqueness is straightforward.
Konnektor protocol uses digital signatures, ConnectionBook, and various events (ConnectionInit, AlreadyConnected, NewPeer, ConnectionRequirement, ConnectionRequirementResponse, KeepAlive) to manage peer identities and connections.
The Entrypoint of Konnektor validates incoming events/requests by checking rate limits, timestamp validity, and signature verification to mitigate potential attacks.
Peers initiate connections by sending ConnectionInit events, which are then handled by receiving peers through validation and propagation of NewPeer events to the network.
Receiving peers generate random bytes and send ConnectionRequirement events, requiring connecting peers to perform a proof-of-work computation to increase the cost of connection attempts and prevent resource attacks.
The AlreadyConnected event is used to identify and disconnect duplicate peers, ensuring network uniqueness.
KeepAlive events are used to maintain the ConnectionBook and detect disconnections or timeouts.
The implementation of Konnektor should provide configuration options for users/developers to adjust various settings like rate limiting, connection timeouts, and payload size and hash difficulty for ConnectionRequirements.
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by Onur Ozkan at arxiv.org 04-12-2024
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.07861.pdfDeeper Inquiries