package routing import ( "math" "github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/channeldb" "github.com/roasbeef/btcd/btcec" "github.com/roasbeef/btcutil" ) const ( // HopLimit is the maximum number hops that is permissible as a route. // Any potential paths found that lie above this limit will be rejected // with an error. This value is computed using the current fixed-size // packet length of the Sphinx construction. HopLimit = 20 // infinity is used as a starting distance in our shortest path search. infinity = math.MaxFloat64 ) // Route represents a path through the channel graph which runs over one or // more channels in succession. This struct carries all the information // required to craft the Sphinx onion packet, and send the payment along the // first hop in the path. A route is only selected as valid if all the channels // have sufficient capacity to carry the initial payment amount after fees are // accounted for. type Route struct { // TotalTimeLock is the cumulative (final) time lock across the entire // route. This is the CLTV value that should be extended to the first // hop in the route. All other hops will decrement the time-lock as // advertised, leaving enough time for all hops to wait for or present // the payment pre-image to complete the payment. TotalTimeLock uint32 // TotalFees is the sum of the fees paid at each hop within the final // route. In the case of a one-hop payment, this value will be zero as // we don't need to pay a fee it ourself. TotalFees btcutil.Amount // TotalAmount is the total amount of funds required to complete a // payment over this route. This value includes the cumulative fees at // each hop. As a result, the HTLC extended to the first-hop in the // route will need to have at least this many satoshis, otherwise the // route will fail at an intermediate node due to an insufficient // amount of fees. TotalAmount btcutil.Amount // Hops contains details concerning the specific forwarding details at // each hop. Hops []*Hop } // Hop represents the forwarding details at a particular position within the // final route. This struct houses the values necessary to create the HTLC // which will travel along this hop, and also encode the per-hop payload // included within the Sphinx packet. type Hop struct { // Channels is the active payment channel that this hop will travel // along. Channel *channeldb.ChannelEdge // TimeLockDelta is the delta that this hop will subtract from the HTLC // before extending it to the next hop in the route. TimeLockDelta uint16 // AmtToForward is the amount that this hop will forward to the next // hop. This value is less than the value that the incoming HTLC // carries as a fee will be subtracted by the hop. AmtToForward btcutil.Amount // Fee is the total fee that this hop will subtract from the incoming // payment, this difference nets the hop fees for forwarding the // payment. Fee btcutil.Amount } // computeFee computes the fee to forward an HTLC of `amt` satoshis over the // passed active payment channel. This value is currently computed as specified // in BOLT07, but will likely change in the near future. func computeFee(amt btcutil.Amount, edge *channeldb.ChannelEdge) btcutil.Amount { return edge.FeeBaseMSat + (amt*edge.FeeProportionalMillionths)/1000000 } // newRoute returns a fully valid route between the source and target that's // capable of supporting a payment of `amtToSend` after fees are fully // computed. IF the route is too long, or the selected path cannot support the // fully payment including fees, then a non-nil error is returned. prevHop maps // a vertex to the channel required to get to it. func newRoute(amtToSend btcutil.Amount, source, target vertex, prevHop map[vertex]edgeWithPrev) (*Route, error) { // As an initial sanity check, the potential route is immediately // invalidate if it spans more than 20 hops. The current Sphinx (onion // routing) implementation can only encode up to 20 hops as the entire // packet is fixed size. If this route is more than 20 hops, then it's // invalid. if len(prevHop) > HopLimit { return nil, ErrMaxHopsExceeded } // If the potential route if below the max hop limit, then we'll use // the prevHop map to unravel the path. We end up with a list of edges // in the reverse direction which we'll use to properly calculate the // timelock and fee values. pathEdges := make([]*channeldb.ChannelEdge, 0, len(prevHop)) prev := target for prev != source { // TODO(roasbeef): assumes no cycles // Add the current hop to the limit of path edges then walk // backwards from this hop via the prev pointer for this hop // within the prevHop map. pathEdges = append(pathEdges, prevHop[prev].edge) prev = newVertex(prevHop[prev].prevNode) } route := &Route{ Hops: make([]*Hop, len(pathEdges)), } // The running amount is the total amount of satoshis required at this // point in the route. We start this value at the amount we want to // send to the destination. This value will then get successively // larger as we compute the fees going backwards. runningAmt := amtToSend pathLength := len(pathEdges) for i, edge := range pathEdges { // Now we create the hop struct for this point in the route. // The amount to forward is the running amount, and we compute // the required fee based on this amount. nextHop := &Hop{ Channel: edge, AmtToForward: runningAmt, Fee: computeFee(runningAmt, edge), TimeLockDelta: edge.Expiry, } edge.Node.PubKey.Curve = nil // As a sanity check, we ensure that the selected channel has // enough capacity to forward the required amount which // includes the fee dictated at each hop. if nextHop.AmtToForward > nextHop.Channel.Capacity { return nil, ErrInsufficientCapacity } // We don't pay any fees to ourselves on the first-hop channel, // so we don't tally up the running fee and amount. if i != len(pathEdges)-1 { // For a node to forward an HTLC, then following // inequality most hold true: amt_in - fee >= // amt_to_forward. Therefore we add the fee this node // consumes in order to calculate the amount that it // show be forwarded by the prior node which is the // next hop in our loop. runningAmt += nextHop.Fee // Next we tally the total fees (thus far) in the // route, and also accumulate the total timelock in the // route by adding the node's time lock delta which is // the amount of blocks it'll subtract from the // incoming time lock. route.TotalFees += nextHop.Fee } else { nextHop.Fee = 0 } route.TotalTimeLock += uint32(nextHop.TimeLockDelta) // Finally, as we're currently talking the route backwards, we // reverse the index in order to place this hop at the proper // spot in the forward direction of the route. route.Hops[pathLength-1-i] = nextHop } // The total amount required for this route will be the value the // source extends to the first hop in the route. route.TotalAmount = runningAmt return route, nil } // vertex is a simple alias for the serialization of a compressed Bitcoin // public key. type vertex [33]byte // newVertex returns a new vertex given a public key. func newVertex(pub *btcec.PublicKey) vertex { var v vertex copy(v[:], pub.SerializeCompressed()) return v } // nodeWithDist is a helper struct that couples the distance from the current // source to a node with a pointer to the node itself. type nodeWithDist struct { dist float64 node *channeldb.LightningNode } // edgeWithPrev is a helper struct used in path finding that couples an // directional edge with the node's ID in the opposite direction. type edgeWithPrev struct { edge *channeldb.ChannelEdge prevNode *btcec.PublicKey } // edgeWeight computes the weight of an edge. This value is used when searching // for the shortest path within the channel graph between two nodes. Currently // this is just 1 + the cltv delta value required at this hop, this value // should be tuned with experimental and empirical data. // // TODO(roasbeef): compute robust weight metric func edgeWeight(e *channeldb.ChannelEdge) float64 { return float64(1 + e.Expiry) } // findRoute attempts to find a path from the source node within the // ChannelGraph to the target node that's capable of supporting a payment of // `amt` value. The current approach is used a multiple pass path finding // algorithm. First we employ a modified version of Dijkstra's algorithm to // find a potential set of shortest paths, the distance metric is related to // the time-lock+fee along the route. Once we have a set of candidate routes, // we calculate the required fee and time lock values running backwards along // the route. The route that's selected is the one with the lowest total fee. // // TODO(roasbeef): make member, add caching // * add k-path func findRoute(graph *channeldb.ChannelGraph, target *btcec.PublicKey, amt btcutil.Amount) (*Route, error) { // First initialize empty list of all the node that we've yet to // visited. // TODO(roasbeef): make into incremental fibonacci heap rather than // loading all into memory. var unvisited []*channeldb.LightningNode // For each node/vertex the graph we create an entry in the distance // map for the node set with a distance of "infinity". We also mark // add the node to our set of unvisited nodes. distance := make(map[vertex]nodeWithDist) if err := graph.ForEachNode(func(node *channeldb.LightningNode) error { // TODO(roasbeef): with larger graph can just use disk seeks // with a visited map distance[newVertex(node.PubKey)] = nodeWithDist{ dist: infinity, node: node, } unvisited = append(unvisited, node) return nil }); err != nil { return nil, err } // Next we obtain the source node from the graph, and initialize it // with a distance of 0. This indicates our starting point in the graph // traversal. sourceNode, err := graph.SourceNode() if err != nil { return nil, err } sourceVertex := newVertex(sourceNode.PubKey) distance[sourceVertex] = nodeWithDist{ dist: 0, node: sourceNode, } // We'll use this map as a series of "previous" hop pointers. So to get // to `vertex` we'll take the edge that it's mapped to within `prev`. prev := make(map[vertex]edgeWithPrev) for len(unvisited) != 0 { var bestNode *channeldb.LightningNode smallestDist := infinity // First we examine our list of unvisited nodes, for the most // optimal vertex to examine next. for i, node := range unvisited { // The "best" node to visit next is node with the // smallest distance from the source of all the // unvisited nodes. v := newVertex(node.PubKey) if nodeInfo := distance[v]; nodeInfo.dist < smallestDist { smallestDist = nodeInfo.dist bestNode = nodeInfo.node // Since we're going to visit this node, we can // remove it from the set of unvisited nodes. copy(unvisited[i:], unvisited[i+1:]) unvisited[len(unvisited)-1] = nil // Avoid GC leak. unvisited = unvisited[:len(unvisited)-1] break } } // If we've reached our target, then we're done here and can // exit the graph traversal early. if bestNode == nil || bestNode.PubKey.IsEqual(target) { break } // Now that we've found the next potential step to take we'll // examine all the outgoing edge (channels) from this node to // further our graph traversal. pivot := newVertex(bestNode.PubKey) err := bestNode.ForEachChannel(nil, func(edge *channeldb.ChannelEdge) error { // Compute the tentative distance to this new // channel/edge which is the distance to our current // pivot node plus the weight of this edge. tempDist := distance[pivot].dist + edgeWeight(edge) // If this new tentative distance is better than the // current best known distance to this node, then we // record the new better distance, and also populate // our "next hop" map with this edge. // TODO(roasbeef): add capacity to relaxation criteria? // * also add min payment? v := newVertex(edge.Node.PubKey) if tempDist < distance[v].dist { // TODO(roasbeef): unconditionally add for all // paths distance[v] = nodeWithDist{ dist: tempDist, node: edge.Node, } prev[v] = edgeWithPrev{ edge: edge, prevNode: bestNode.PubKey, } } return nil }) if err != nil { return nil, err } } // If the target node isn't found in the prev hop map, then a path // doesn't exist, so we terminate in an error. if _, ok := prev[newVertex(target)]; !ok { return nil, ErrNoPathFound } // Otherwise, we construct a new route which calculate the relevant // total fees and proper time lock values for each hop. targetVerex := newVertex(target) return newRoute(amt, sourceVertex, targetVerex, prev) }