This is heavy WIP Complete

Team: @Guillaume Michel (guissou)

Final report: https://github.com/protocol/network-measurements/blob/master/results/rfm16-bitswap-discovery-effectiveness.md

Related issues / PRs:

• https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/issues/8807
• https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/pull/9530

Move The Bytes WG Kickoff

Still TODO

• [x] Correct packet number analysis
• [x] Write improvement suggestions
• [x] Write conclusion
• [x] Spelling checks
• [x] Get reviews

Draft Reports

RFM-16: Effectiveness of Bitswap Discovery Process

Bitswap measurements: draft report

Notes from the first experiment

Bitswap success rate measurements

All data is in this Google Cloud VM, the CIDs lists tarballs are located in /home/guillaume/. They were uploaded by Leo and were gathered by listening to bitswap traffic (e.g to WANT-HAVE and WANT-BLOCK requests).

From what we observed there were 6 peers: