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23 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Johan T. Halseth
5b1e72a019
autopilot/interface+agent: return NodeScore from NodeScores
Since NodeScores no longer returns fully populated AttachmentDirectives,
we make this explicit by defining a new type NodeScore that includes a
subset of what the AttachmentDirective does.
2019-01-08 10:23:50 +01:00
Johan T. Halseth
3739c19ef8
autopilot/pref_attachment: rename ConstrainedPrefAttachment->PrefAttachment
Since the ConstrainedPrefAttachment no longers require the heuristic to
be aware of the autopilot constraints, we rename it PrefAttachment.
2019-01-08 10:10:59 +01:00
Johan T. Halseth
ccf4b7feab
autopilot: move address lookup from heuristic to agent
To avoid having the heuristics deal with (possibly conflicting) address
lookups, we let the agent handle them.
2019-01-08 10:10:59 +01:00
Johan T. Halseth
cfd237bf1f
autopilot: move determining chanSize from heuristic to agent
Since we want to combine scores from multiple heuristics, things get
complicated if the heuristics report their own individual channel sizes.
Therefore we change the NodeScores interface slightly, letting the agent
specify the wanted channel size, and let the heuristic score the nodes
accordingly.
2019-01-08 10:10:59 +01:00
Johan T. Halseth
d0c4e253c6
autopilot/interface: remove NeedMoreChans from AttachmentHeuristic
Since the agent is now querying the constraints directly, NeedMoreChans
is no longer needed on the heuristic.
2019-01-08 10:10:59 +01:00
Johan T. Halseth
1d82e12fcf
autopilot: define AgentConstraints
To decouple the autopilot heuristic from the constraints, we start by
abstracting them behind an interface to make them easier to mock. We
also rename them HeuristicConstraints->AgentConstraints to make it clear
that they are now constraints the agent must adhere to.
2019-01-08 10:10:58 +01:00
Johan T. Halseth
b9c33da3f8
autopilot/prefattach: skip nodes having no channels 2018-12-10 15:01:43 +01:00
Johan T. Halseth
d9eef4625e
autopilot/prefattach: populate Addrs field 2018-12-10 15:00:41 +01:00
Johan T. Halseth
6130189d95
autopilot/interface+agent: remove Select 2018-12-06 14:26:28 +01:00
Johan T. Halseth
5e8e54083f
autopilot/prefattach+interface: add API NodeScores
This commit adds a new method NodeScores to the AttachementHeuristic
interface. Its intended use is to score a set of nodes according to
their preference as channel counterparties.

The PrefAttach heuristic gets a NodeScores method that will score the
ndoes according to their number of already existing channels, similar to
what is done already in Select.
2018-12-06 14:26:05 +01:00
Johan T. Halseth
5ecc209c41
autopilot/interface+agent: remove NodeKey from AttachmentDirective
Instead parse the pubkey bytes only when needed.
2018-12-06 14:26:05 +01:00
Johan T. Halseth
35f4ec84d1
autopilot/prefattach: use HeuristicConstraints
This commit makes the pref attach heuristic and the agent use the
HeuristicConstraints internally.
2018-12-06 11:25:30 +01:00
ErikEk
c5f61b3c06 Typo fix autopilot 2018-10-09 18:28:34 +02:00
Conner Fromknecht
d5f97f7bdc
autopilot/multi: replace PubKey -> NodeKey on directive 2018-09-05 20:10:37 -07:00
Conner Fromknecht
c214bea9db
autopilot/prefattach: set NodeID for selection candidates 2018-09-05 20:10:34 -07:00
Olaoluwa Osuntokun
a429c56c10
autopilot: update the Node interface to return a raw bytes, not the key
In this commit, we modify the Node interface to return a set of raw
bytes, rather than the full pubkey struct. We do this as within the
package, commonly we only require the pubkey bytes for fingerprinting
purposes. Before this commit, we were forced to _always_ decompress the
pubkey which can be expensive done thousands of times a second.
2018-08-29 15:44:47 -07:00
Olaoluwa Osuntokun
6f60f139f4 multi: switch over import paths from roasbeef/* to btcsuite/* 2018-07-13 17:05:39 -07:00
practicalswift
663c396235 multi: fix a-vs-an typos 2018-04-17 19:02:04 -07:00
Olaoluwa Osuntokun
9f52372cd2
autopilot: modify interfaces to specify *exactly* how many chans to open
In this commit, we fix a regression introduced by a recent change which
would allow the agent to detect a channel as failed, and blacklist the
node, promising faster convergence with the ideal state of the
heuristic.

The source of this bug is that we would use the set of blacklisted
nodes in order to compute how many additional channels we should open.
If 10 failures happened, then we would think that we had opened up 10
channels, and stop much earlier than we actually should.

To fix this, while ensuring we don’t retry to failed peers, the
NeedMoreChans method will now return *how* anymore channels to open,
and the Select method will take in how many channels it should try to
open *exactly*.
2018-02-08 20:08:18 -08:00
Olaoluwa Osuntokun
9bcb139bcc
autopilot: shuffle set of candidates using Fisher–Yates before selecting
In this commit we modify the ConstrainedPrefAttachment.Select method to
first shuffle the set of potential candidates before selecting them.
This serves to remove the existing grouping between candidates which
may have influenced the selection.
2017-10-30 18:55:55 -07:00
Olaoluwa Osuntokun
77e3e74ea2
autopilot: for ConstrainedPrefAttachment.Select factor in skipNodes
This commit modifies the Select method for the
ConstrainedPrefAttachment attachment heuristic slightly. Previously, it
was possible for an autopilot.Agent to go over the allotted number of
channels as it would unconditionally attempt to establish channel with
all returned Attachment Directives. To remedy this, we now assume that
we already have active, or pending channels to each of the nodes in the
set of skipNodes. Therefore, we now use the size of the skipNodes map
as an  upper limit within the primary selection loop.
2017-08-22 00:51:43 -07:00
Olaoluwa Osuntokun
48be9261ef
autopilot: fix linter error 2017-08-10 22:07:22 -07:00
Olaoluwa Osuntokun
306c4aef8e
autopilot: "Look ma no hands!", introducing autopilot mode
This commit introduces the initial implementation of the autopilot
mode. Autopilot is new mode within lnd that enables automatic channel
management. This means that if enabled lnd will attempt to
automatically manage channels according to a set of heuristic defined
within the main configuration for autopilot.Agent instance.

The autopilot.Agent implements a simple closed control loop. It takes
in external signals such as wallet balance updates, new open channel,
and channels that are now closed the updates its internal state. With
each external trigger it will consult the registered
AttachmentHeuristic to decide: if it needs to open any more channels,
and if so how much it should use to open the channels, ultimately
returning a set of recommended AttachmentDirectives. The
autopilot.Agent loop will then take those attempt to establish
connection, and go back in waiting for a new external signal.

With this first implementation the default heuristic is the
ConstrainedPrefAttachment implementation of AttachmentHeuristic. Given
a min and max channel size, a limit on the number of channels, and the
percentage of wallet funds to allocate to channels, it will attempt to
execute a heuristic drive by the Barabási–Albert model model in order
to attempt to drive the global graph towards a scale free topology.

This is commit implements a foundational layer for future simulations,
optimization, and additional heuristics.
2017-08-10 21:14:55 -07:00