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How a statistical approach cut IPFS content publishing times by over one order of magnitude.

Introduction Publishing content in Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) has traditionally been a slow operation, especially when: i) the network is large, and ii) the nodes participating in the network are churning frequently. The case is no different for IPFS’s Amino DHT, which meets both of these conditions. The ProbeLab team identified this problem years ago, through extensive measurements, and proposed an optimisation that was shown to improve performance, i.e., reduce the content publication time by over one order of magnitude while simultaneously reducing the network overhead by 40%. The…

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