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Mem-DHT Kademlia Provider Routing Protocol

Mem-DHT (core/dht, Protocol ID: /membuss/kad/1.0.0) provides distributed provider routing across network nodes using Kademlia distance metrics.

1. Provider Record Routing​

To keep DHT traffic minimal, Membuss nodes publish provider records only for root entry-node MIDs rather than announcing every chunk block.

Record Key   : /membuss/provider/<RootMID>
Record Value : PeerID + Multiaddresses + TTL (24 Hours)

2. Kademlia Distance Metric​

Uses XOR distance $d(x, y) = x \oplus y$ to query the $K=20$ closest peers for any key lookup.