feat(latency): wall-clock skew handshake for cross-machine latency measurement
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ClockProbe/ClockEcho on the QUIC control stream — 8 NTP-style rounds right after
Start; the min-RTT sample gives the host-client clock offset (clock_offset_ns
estimator in punktfunk-core). The client adds the offset to its receive instant
before differencing against the AU pts_ns, so the capture->reassembled latency
percentiles are valid across machines (skew_corrected=true), not just same-host.
Back-compat: an old host that doesn't answer the probe times out and the client
falls back to a shared-clock assumption (skew_corrected=false).

Host adds one ClockProbe dispatch arm in the control task; the client runs
clock_sync after Start, before the --remode/--speed-test tasks take the stream.

Validated cross-LAN (GNOME box -> dev box): offset ~ -1.57 ms (reproducible),
rtt ~140 us, p50 1.30 ms skew-corrected capture->reassembled — the offset is
exactly the systematic error the handshake removes. Unit tests for the message
codecs and the min-RTT offset estimator.

Roadmap §12: skew handshake done; remaining for true glass-to-glass is the Apple
client present-stamp (decode->present) plus the host render->capture term.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -144,6 +144,44 @@ pub struct ProbeResult {
pub duration_ms: u32,
}
/// `client → host`, right after [`Start`]: one round of the wall-clock skew handshake. The client
/// stamps `t1_ns` (its monotonic-since-epoch clock) and sends; the host echoes it in [`ClockEcho`]
/// with its own receive/send stamps. A few rounds let the client estimate the host↔client clock
/// offset, so the per-frame `capture→reassembled` latency (the AU `pts_ns` is the host's capture
/// clock) is meaningful across machines, not just same-host. An old host ignores it (the client
/// times out and assumes a shared clock).
#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub struct ClockProbe {
pub t1_ns: u64,
}
/// `host → client`: answer to [`ClockProbe`]. `t2_ns` is when the host received the probe and
/// `t3_ns` when it sent this echo (both the host clock); `t1_ns` is the client's send stamp echoed
/// back. With the client's receive time `t4`, offset = ((t2t1)+(t3t4))/2 (host minus client) and
/// RTT = (t4t1)(t3t2). See [`clock_offset_ns`].
#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub struct ClockEcho {
pub t1_ns: u64,
pub t2_ns: u64,
pub t3_ns: u64,
}
/// Estimate the host↔client clock offset (**host minus client**, ns) and RTT (ns) from skew-handshake
/// samples `(t1, t2, t3, t4)` — NTP's formula, taking the **minimum-RTT** sample (least queuing
/// noise; also discards the first round's host-setup latency). Offset is positive when the host
/// clock is ahead of the client's; add it to a client timestamp to express it in the host clock.
/// Returns `None` for an empty sample set.
pub fn clock_offset_ns(samples: &[(u64, u64, u64, u64)]) -> Option<(i64, u64)> {
samples
.iter()
.map(|&(t1, t2, t3, t4)| {
let rtt = ((t4 as i128 - t1 as i128) - (t3 as i128 - t2 as i128)).max(0) as u64;
let offset = (((t2 as i128 - t1 as i128) + (t3 as i128 - t4 as i128)) / 2) as i64;
(offset, rtt)
})
.min_by_key(|&(_, rtt)| rtt)
}
/// Type byte of [`Reconfigure`] (first byte after the magic).
pub const MSG_RECONFIGURE: u8 = 0x01;
/// Type byte of [`Reconfigured`].
@@ -152,6 +190,10 @@ pub const MSG_RECONFIGURED: u8 = 0x02;
pub const MSG_PROBE_REQUEST: u8 = 0x20;
/// Type byte of [`ProbeResult`].
pub const MSG_PROBE_RESULT: u8 = 0x21;
/// Type byte of [`ClockProbe`].
pub const MSG_CLOCK_PROBE: u8 = 0x30;
/// Type byte of [`ClockEcho`].
pub const MSG_CLOCK_ECHO: u8 = 0x31;
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Pairing ceremony (typed control messages): instead of a session Hello, a client may open
@@ -668,6 +710,50 @@ impl ProbeResult {
}
}
impl ClockProbe {
pub fn encode(&self) -> Vec<u8> {
// magic[0..4] type[4] t1[5..13]
let mut b = Vec::with_capacity(13);
b.extend_from_slice(CTL_MAGIC);
b.push(MSG_CLOCK_PROBE);
b.extend_from_slice(&self.t1_ns.to_le_bytes());
b
}
pub fn decode(b: &[u8]) -> Result<ClockProbe> {
if b.len() != 13 || &b[0..4] != CTL_MAGIC || b[4] != MSG_CLOCK_PROBE {
return Err(PunktfunkError::InvalidArg("bad ClockProbe"));
}
Ok(ClockProbe {
t1_ns: u64::from_le_bytes(b[5..13].try_into().unwrap()),
})
}
}
impl ClockEcho {
pub fn encode(&self) -> Vec<u8> {
// magic[0..4] type[4] t1[5..13] t2[13..21] t3[21..29]
let mut b = Vec::with_capacity(29);
b.extend_from_slice(CTL_MAGIC);
b.push(MSG_CLOCK_ECHO);
b.extend_from_slice(&self.t1_ns.to_le_bytes());
b.extend_from_slice(&self.t2_ns.to_le_bytes());
b.extend_from_slice(&self.t3_ns.to_le_bytes());
b
}
pub fn decode(b: &[u8]) -> Result<ClockEcho> {
if b.len() != 29 || &b[0..4] != CTL_MAGIC || b[4] != MSG_CLOCK_ECHO {
return Err(PunktfunkError::InvalidArg("bad ClockEcho"));
}
Ok(ClockEcho {
t1_ns: u64::from_le_bytes(b[5..13].try_into().unwrap()),
t2_ns: u64::from_le_bytes(b[13..21].try_into().unwrap()),
t3_ns: u64::from_le_bytes(b[21..29].try_into().unwrap()),
})
}
}
/// Frame a message for the control stream: `u16 LE length || payload`.
pub fn frame(payload: &[u8]) -> Vec<u8> {
let mut b = Vec::with_capacity(2 + payload.len());
@@ -1434,6 +1520,48 @@ mod tests {
assert!(ProbeResult::decode(&req.encode()).is_err());
}
#[test]
fn clock_messages_roundtrip() {
let probe = ClockProbe {
t1_ns: 1_700_000_000_123,
};
assert_eq!(ClockProbe::decode(&probe.encode()).unwrap(), probe);
let echo = ClockEcho {
t1_ns: 1_700_000_000_123,
t2_ns: 1_700_000_050_456,
t3_ns: 1_700_000_050_789,
};
assert_eq!(ClockEcho::decode(&echo.encode()).unwrap(), echo);
// Disjoint from the other control messages (distinct type bytes).
assert!(ClockProbe::decode(&echo.encode()).is_err());
assert!(ProbeRequest::decode(&probe.encode()).is_err());
assert!(ClockEcho::decode(&probe.encode()).is_err());
}
#[test]
fn clock_offset_picks_min_rtt_and_recovers_offset() {
// Host clock is +1_000_000 ns ahead of the client. Construct samples where a symmetric
// round-trip recovers exactly that offset, and a noisy (asymmetric, high-RTT) sample is
// present but must be ignored by the min-RTT selection.
const OFF: i64 = 1_000_000;
// Clean sample: client t1=0, one-way=200µs each way → t2 = t1 + 200_000 + OFF (host clock),
// t3 = t2 + 50_000 (host processing), t4 = t3 - OFF + 200_000 (back in client clock).
let t1 = 0u64;
let t2 = (t1 as i64 + 200_000 + OFF) as u64;
let t3 = t2 + 50_000;
let t4 = (t3 as i64 - OFF + 200_000) as u64;
// Noisy sample: same offset but a fat, asymmetric RTT (slow return path) — higher RTT.
let n1 = 1_000_000u64;
let n2 = (n1 as i64 + 200_000 + OFF) as u64;
let n3 = n2 + 50_000;
let n4 = (n3 as i64 - OFF + 5_000_000) as u64; // 5 ms return → big RTT
let (offset, rtt) =
clock_offset_ns(&[(n1, n2, n3, n4), (t1, t2, t3, t4)]).expect("non-empty");
assert_eq!(offset, OFF, "min-RTT sample recovers the offset exactly");
assert_eq!(rtt, 400_000, "min-RTT sample's RTT (2x200us), not the noisy 5ms one");
assert!(clock_offset_ns(&[]).is_none());
}
#[test]
fn control_messages_disjoint_from_hello() {
// A Hello uses MAGIC (PKF1); control messages use CTL_MAGIC (PKFc). No Hello — at