Merge commit 'mikeperry/bandwidth-proposals-final'

doc/spec/proposals/161-computing-bandwidth-adjustments.txt

@@ -42,31 +42,25 @@ Status: Open
   slices of 50 nodes each, grouped according to advertised node bandwidth.
 
   Two hop circuits are built using nodes from the same slice, and a large
-  file is downloaded via these circuits. For nodes in the first 15% of the
+  file is downloaded via these circuits. The file sizes are set based
-  network, a 500K file will be used. For nodes in the next 15%, a 250K file
+  on node percentile rank as follows:
-  will be used. For nodes in next 15%, a 100K file will be used. The 
+    
-  remainder of the nodes will fetch a 75K file.[1]
+     0-10: 2M
+     10-20: 1M
+     20-30: 512k
+     30-50: 256k
+     50-100: 128k
 
-  This process is repeated 250 times, and average stream capacities are 
+  These sizes are based on measurements performed during test scans.
-  assigned to each node from these results. 
-  
-  In the future, a node generator type can be created to ensure that
-  each node is chosen to participate in an equal number of circuits,
-  and the selection will continue until every live node is chosen
-  to participate in at least 7 circuits.
-  
 
-4. Ratio Calculation Options
+  This process is repeated until each node has been chosen to participate
+  in at least 5 circuits.
 
-  There are two options for deriving the ratios themselves. They can
-  be obtained by dividing each nodes' average stream capacity by
-  either the average for the slice, or the average for the network as a
-  whole.
 
-  Dividing by the network-wide average has the advantage that it will
+4. Ratio Calculation
-  account for issues related to unbalancing between higher vs lower
+
-  capacity, such as Steven Murdoch's queuing theory weighting result.
+  The ratios are calculated by dividing each measured value by the 
-  For this reason, we will opt for network-wide averages.
+  network-wide average.
 
 
 5. Ratio Filtering
@@ -77,10 +71,8 @@ Status: Open
   with capacity of one standard deviation below a node's average
   are also removed.
 
-  The final ratio result will be calculated as the maximum of
+  The final ratio result will be greater of the unfiltered ratio
-  these two resulting ratios if both are less than 1.0, the minimum
+  and the filtered ratio.
-  if both are greater than 1.0, and the mean if one is greater
-  and one is less than 1.0.
 
 
 6. Pseudocode for Ratio Calculation Algorithm
@@ -95,11 +87,8 @@ Status: Open
         BW_measured(N) = MEAN(b | b is bandwidth of a stream through N)
         Bw_stddev(N) = STDDEV(b | b is bandwidth of a stream through N)
       Bw_avg(S) = MEAN(b | b = BW_measured(N) for all N in S)  
-      Normal_Routers(S) = {N | Bw_measured(N)/Bw_avg(S) > 0.5 }
       for N in S:
-        Normal_Streams(N) =
+        Normal_Streams(N) = {stream via N | bandwidth >= BW_measured(N)} 
-          {stream via N | all nodes in stream not in {Normal_Routers(S)-N}
-                          and bandwidth > BW_measured(N)-Bw_stddev(N)} 
         BW_Norm_measured(N) =  MEAN(b | b is a bandwidth of Normal_Streams(N))
 
     Bw_net_avg(Slices) = MEAN(BW_measured(N) for all N in Slices)
@@ -107,14 +96,9 @@ Status: Open
 
     for N in all Slices:
       Bw_net_ratio(N) = Bw_measured(N)/Bw_net_avg(Slices)
-      Bw_Norm_net_ratio(N) = Bw_measured2(N)/Bw_Norm_net_avg(Slices)
+      Bw_Norm_net_ratio(N) = BW_Norm_measured(N)/Bw_Norm_net_avg(Slices)
 
-      if Bw_net_ratio(N) < 1.0 and Bw_Norm_net_ratio(N) < 1.0:
+      ResultRatio(N) = MAX(Bw_net_ratio(N), Bw_Norm_net_ratio(N))
-        ResultRatio(N) = MAX(Bw_net_ratio(N), Bw_Norm_net_ratio(N))
-      else if Bw_net_ratio(N) > 1.0 and Bw_Norm_net_ratio(N) > 1.0:
-        ResultRatio(N) = MIN(Bw_net_ratio(N), Bw_Norm_net_ratio(N))
-      else: 
-        ResultRatio(N) = MEAN(Bw_net_ratio(N), Bw_Norm_net_ratio(N))
 
 
 7. Security implications
@@ -126,14 +110,14 @@ Status: Open
 
   This scheme will not address nodes that try to game the system by
   providing better service to scanners. The scanners can be detected
-  at the entry by IP address, and at the exit by the destination fetch.
+  at the entry by IP address, and at the exit by the destination fetch
+  IP.
 
   Measures can be taken to obfuscate and separate the scanners' source
   IP address from the directory authority IP address. For instance,
   scans can happen offsite and the results can be rsynced into the
-  authorities.  The destination fetch can also be obscured by using SSL
+  authorities. The destination server IP can also change.
-  and periodically changing the large document that is fetched.
+ 
-
   Neither of these methods are foolproof, but such nodes can already
   lie about their bandwidth to attract more traffic, so this solution
   does not set us back any in that regard.
@@ -148,14 +132,14 @@ Status: Open
   over a portion of the network, outputting files of the form:
 
    node_id=<idhex> SP strm_bw=<BW_measured(N)> SP 
-            filt_bw=<BW_Norm_measured(N)> NL
+         filt_bw=<BW_Norm_measured(N)> ns_bw=<CurrentConsensusBw(N)> NL
 
   The most recent file from each scanner will be periodically gathered 
   by another script that uses them to produce network-wide averages 
   and calculate ratios as per the algorithm in section 6. Because nodes 
   may shift in capacity, they may appear in more than one slice and/or 
-  appear more than once in the file set. The line that yields a ratio 
+  appear more than once in the file set. The most recently measured
-  closest to 1.0 will be chosen in this case.
+  line will be chosen in this case.
 
 
 9. Integration with Proposal 160
@@ -166,10 +150,15 @@ Status: Open
   scan, and taking the weighted average with the previous consensus
   bandwidth:
 
-     Bw_new = (Bw_current * Alpha + Bw_scan_avg*Bw_ratio)/(Alpha + 1)
+     Bw_new = Round((Bw_current * Alpha + Bw_scan_avg*Bw_ratio)/(Alpha + 1))
 
   The Alpha parameter is a smoothing parameter intended to prevent
-  rapid oscillation between loaded and unloaded conditions. 
+  rapid oscillation between loaded and unloaded conditions. It is
+  currently fixed at 0.333.
+
+  The Round() step consists of rounding to the 3 most significant figures
+  in base10, and then rounding that result to the nearest 1000, with 
+  a minimum value of 1000.
 
   This will produce a new bandwidth value that will be output into a 
   file consisting of lines of the form:
@@ -183,6 +172,3 @@ Status: Open
   This file can be either copied or rsynced into a directory readable
   by the directory authority.
 
-
-1. Exact values for each segment are still being determined via 
-test scans.