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Implement connection health monitoring and intelligent load balancing

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Description

### Description

## Summary
Implement comprehensive connection health monitoring and intelligent load balancing for py-libp2p to address the 1-1 connection mapping limitation.

## Related Discussion
- Discussion #717: TODO Analysis - Swarm.py Issues

## Scope
- New `libp2p/network/health/` module
- Integration with Swarm connection lifecycle
- Extended `ConnectionConfig` with health monitoring options
- Host-level health monitoring API methods

### Motivation

## Goals
- Track connection health metrics (latency, success rates, bandwidth, stability)
- Proactive health monitoring service with configurable intervals
- Multiple load balancing strategies (round_robin, least_loaded, health_based, latency_based)
- Health-aware connection selection
- API consistency fix for `new_host()` to accept `connection_config` parameter

### Current Implementation

## Related Discussion
- Discussion #717: TODO Analysis - Swarm.py Issues

### Are you planning to do it yourself in a pull request ?

Yes

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start with Discussion #717 and inspect the existing Swarm connection lifecycle, ConnectionConfig, and new_host() entry points. Review the proposed libp2p/network/health/ module boundary and identify existing tests for connection management before defining the monitoring and load-balancing behavior. Done should include the health API, lifecycle integration, configurable strategies, and coverage for the documented goals.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
networking
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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