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.gitignore

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # LaTeX intermediate and output files
+CLAUDE.md
 result
 *.aux
 **/*.bak.*

Chapters/Methodology.tex

@@ -21,11 +21,11 @@ All experiments were conducted on three bare-metal servers with
 identical specifications:
 
 \begin{itemize}
-  \item \textbf{CPU:} Intel Model 94, 4 cores / 8 threads
-  \item \textbf{Memory:} 64 GB RAM
-  \item \textbf{Network:} 1 Gbps Ethernet (e1000e driver; one machine
+  \bitem{CPU:} Intel Model 94, 4 cores / 8 threads
+  \bitem{Memory:} 64 GB RAM
+  \bitem{Network:} 1 Gbps Ethernet (e1000e driver; one machine
     uses r8169)
-  \item \textbf{Cryptographic acceleration:} AES-NI, AVX, AVX2, PCLMULQDQ,
+  \bitem{Cryptographic acceleration:} AES-NI, AVX, AVX2, PCLMULQDQ,
     RDRAND, SSE4.2
 \end{itemize}
 
@@ -85,13 +85,13 @@ for understanding the cost of mesh coordination and NAT traversal logic.
 
 VPNs were selected based on:
 \begin{itemize}
-  \item \textbf{NAT traversal capability:} All selected VPNs can establish
+  \bitem{NAT traversal capability:} All selected VPNs can establish
     connections between peers behind NAT without manual port forwarding.
-  \item \textbf{Decentralization:} Preference for solutions without mandatory
+  \bitem{Decentralization:} Preference for solutions without mandatory
     central servers, though coordinated-mesh VPNs were included for comparison.
-  \item \textbf{Active development:} Only VPNs with recent commits and
+  \bitem{Active development:} Only VPNs with recent commits and
     maintained releases were considered.
-  \item \textbf{Linux support:} All VPNs must run on Linux.
+  \bitem{Linux support:} All VPNs must run on Linux.
 \end{itemize}
 
 \subsection{Configuration Methodology}
@@ -125,9 +125,9 @@ work that relied exclusively on iperf3.
 Measures round-trip latency and packet delivery reliability.
 
 \begin{itemize}
-  \item \textbf{Method:} 100 ICMP echo requests at 200 ms intervals,
+  \bitem{Method:} 100 ICMP echo requests at 200 ms intervals,
     1-second per-packet timeout, repeated for 3 runs.
-  \item \textbf{Metrics:} RTT (min, avg, max, mdev), packet loss percentage,
+  \bitem{Metrics:} RTT (min, avg, max, mdev), packet loss percentage,
     per-packet RTTs.
 \end{itemize}
 
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ TCP streams on all machines simultaneously in a circular pattern
 This simulates contention across the mesh.
 
 \begin{itemize}
-  \item \textbf{Metrics:} Throughput (bits/s), retransmits, congestion window,
+  \bitem{Metrics:} Throughput (bits/s), retransmits, congestion window,
     jitter (UDP), packet loss (UDP).
 \end{itemize}
 
@@ -156,9 +156,9 @@ This simulates contention across the mesh.
 Measures connection-level performance rather than bulk throughput.
 
 \begin{itemize}
-  \item \textbf{Method:} One qperf instance per CPU core in parallel, each
+  \bitem{Method:} One qperf instance per CPU core in parallel, each
     running for 30 seconds. Bandwidth from all cores is summed per second.
-  \item \textbf{Metrics:} Total bandwidth (Mbps), CPU usage, time to first
+  \bitem{Metrics:} Total bandwidth (Mbps), CPU usage, time to first
     byte (TTFB), connection establishment time.
 \end{itemize}
 
@@ -167,12 +167,12 @@ Measures connection-level performance rather than bulk throughput.
 Measures real-time multimedia streaming performance.
 
 \begin{itemize}
-  \item \textbf{Method:} The sender generates a 4K (3840$\times$2160) test
+  \bitem{Method:} The sender generates a 4K (3840$\times$2160) test
     pattern at 30 fps using ffmpeg with H.264 encoding (ultrafast preset,
     zerolatency tuning) at 25 Mbps target bitrate. The stream is transmitted
     over the RIST protocol to a receiver on the target machine for 30 seconds.
-  \item \textbf{Encoding metrics:} Actual bitrate, frame rate, dropped frames.
-  \item \textbf{Network metrics:} Packets dropped, packets recovered via
+  \bitem{Encoding metrics:} Actual bitrate, frame rate, dropped frames.
+  \bitem{Network metrics:} Packets dropped, packets recovered via
     RIST retransmission, RTT, quality score (0--100), received bitrate.
 \end{itemize}
 
@@ -185,12 +185,12 @@ realistic test of VPN behavior under multimedia workloads.
 Measures sustained download performance using a real-world workload.
 
 \begin{itemize}
-  \item \textbf{Method:} A Harmonia Nix binary cache server on the target
+  \bitem{Method:} A Harmonia Nix binary cache server on the target
     machine serves the Firefox package. The client downloads it via
     \texttt{nix copy} through the VPN. Benchmarked with hyperfine:
     1 warmup run followed by 2 timed runs. The local cache and Nix's
     SQLite metadata are cleared between runs.
-  \item \textbf{Metrics:} Mean duration (seconds), standard deviation,
+  \bitem{Metrics:} Mean duration (seconds), standard deviation,
     min/max duration.
 \end{itemize}
 
@@ -267,9 +267,9 @@ be identified during analysis.
 Each metric is summarized as a statistics dictionary containing:
 
 \begin{itemize}
-  \item \textbf{min / max:} Extreme values observed
-  \item \textbf{average:} Arithmetic mean across samples
-  \item \textbf{p25 / p50 / p75:} Quartiles via \texttt{statistics.quantiles()}
+  \bitem{min / max:} Extreme values observed
+  \bitem{average:} Arithmetic mean across samples
+  \bitem{p25 / p50 / p75:} Quartiles via \texttt{statistics.quantiles()}
 \end{itemize}
 
 Multi-run tests (ping, nix-cache) aggregate across runs. Per-second
@@ -345,12 +345,12 @@ cryptographic hashes (\texttt{narHash}) and commit SHAs for each input.
 Key pinned inputs include:
 
 \begin{itemize}
-  \item \textbf{nixpkgs:} Follows \texttt{clan-core/nixpkgs}, ensuring a
+  \bitem{nixpkgs:} Follows \texttt{clan-core/nixpkgs}, ensuring a
     single version across the dependency graph
-  \item \textbf{clan-core:} The Clan framework, pinned to a specific commit
-  \item \textbf{VPN sources:} Hyprspace, EasyTier, Nebula locked to
+  \bitem{clan-core:} The Clan framework, pinned to a specific commit
+  \bitem{VPN sources:} Hyprspace, EasyTier, Nebula locked to
     exact commits
-  \item \textbf{Build infrastructure:} flake-parts, treefmt-nix, disko,
+  \bitem{Build infrastructure:} flake-parts, treefmt-nix, disko,
     nixos-facter-modules
 \end{itemize}
 

main.tex

@@ -70,6 +70,8 @@
 \usepackage[autostyle=true]{csquotes} % Required to generate
 % language-dependent quotes in the bibliography
 
+\newcommand{\bitem}[1]{\item \textbf{#1}}
+
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