ProbeLab | Protocol Labs Research
ProbeLab
The Protocol Benchmarking & Optimization Team (ProbeLab) is on a mission to measure the performance of Web3 network protocols, benchmark protocols against target performance milestones, and propose improvements to their core design principles.
Our work focuses on internal network protocol logic, as well as cross-protocol interoperation and network architecture. We start from the protocol as an independent entity and dive into its mechanics. We then investigate the exogenous factors that influence the performance of the protocol, as well as the influence that this protocol has on other parts of the system. We specialize and work on network-layer protocols.
Resources
- The ProbeLab website is available at https://probelab.io/
- You can find our Completed, Ongoing and Future projects in ProbeLab’s Notion page, where we currently organize our work.
- Our network measurement work and results lives in this GH repository: https://github.com/protocol/network-measurements. You can open issues and submit PRs for items of interest to your project/product.
- Our latest results are posted on the “Results” folder of the same repository.
- Our latest ACM Sigcomm 2022 paper includes a comprehensive description and internal details of the IPFS architecture, as well as a summary of our latest measurement campaign.
Where to find us
- We frequent in the #probe-lab channel on the IPFS Discord Server
- We hold bi-weekly Office Hours, where we discuss items related to network measurements, protocol design and network architecture, primarily focused around IPFS, libp2p and occasionally Filecoin. Reach out to us if you want an invite.
Publications
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2022-12-13/Conference paper
Enriching Kademlia by partitioning
Decentralizing the Web is becoming an increasingly interesting endeavor that aims at improving user security and privacy as well as providing guaranteed ownership of content. One such endeavor that pushes towards this reality, is Protocol Labs’ Inter-Planetary File System (IPFS) network, that provides a decentralized large-scale file system to support the decentralized Web.
DINPS 22 / 2022.07.10 / Bologna, Italy
João Monteiro, Pedro Ákos Costa, João Leitão, Alfonso de la Rocha, Yiannis Psaras
ConsensusLab, ProbeLab
Distributed systems, Networking
2022-07-26/Conference paper
Design and evaluation of IPFS: A storage layer for the decentralized web
Recent years have witnessed growing consolidation of web operations. For example, the majority of web traffic now originates from a few organizations, and even micro-websites often choose to host on large pre-existing cloud infrastructures.
ACM SIGCOMM 2022 / 2022.08.26 / Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dennis Trautwein, Aravindh Raman, Gareth Tyson, Ignacio Castro, Will Scott, Moritz Schubotz, Bela Gipp, Yiannis Psaras
ProbeLab
Distributed systems, Networking
Talks
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2022-07-26
IPFS network measurements and improvement opportunities
Paris P2P Festival / 2022.04.29 / Paris, France
Yiannis Psaras
ProbeLab
Networking
Blog
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2022-08-26/Blog
Protocol Labs research funding recipients 2022
Protocol Labs Research is thrilled to announce the first research funding recipients of 2022! We fund researchers around the world and have given out 11 awards so far this year. These awards include three RFPs, two Summer Research Grants, five Doctoral fellowships, and one Postdoctoral fellowship.
Abby Silin
ConsensusLab, CryptoComputeLab, CryptoEconLab, Cryptonet, Network Research, ProbeLab, Research Acceleration
Cryptography, Distributed systems, Metaresearch, Networking
2022-07-26/Blog
This post was originally published in the IPFS blog and is reprinted here with minor edits. ProbeLab is an effort to apply solid scientific measurement methodologies to benchmark and optimize network protocols that operate in decentralized P2P environments.
Yiannis Psaras
ProbeLab
Networking
2022-01-12/News
Call for Papers Announcement: Workshop on Decentralized Internet, Networks, Protocols, and Systems Website: https://research.protocol.ai/sites/dinps/ Submission Deadline: 5 March 2022 In June 2021, we ran a workshop on “Decentralizing the Internet with IPFS and Filecoin” (DI2F) alongside IFIP Networking 2021 to establish a forum for academics, researchers and developers to share their expertise and latest findings on decentralized storage, IPFS, libp2p, and Filecoin.
João Leitão, Yiannis Psaras
ProbeLab
Distributed systems, Networking