Roadmap(DR): Gossipsub Scaling

[kaiserd]

(WIP)

• [x] background + first results + potential improvements

• technical report on gossip scaling / gossipsub improvements

  • [x] comprehensive current/related work study on gossipsub scaling (including relevant work outside of gossipsub, in the broader area of unstructured P2P networks in general)
  • [x] (complete) technical report on gossip scaling / gossipsub improvements (containing, but not limited to, our previous research)
  • [x] research log post (vac.dev) based on the techreport
  • [x] talk @ Logos research call

• simulation

  • [x] simple gossipsub node (in nim) for DST/Wakurtosis simulations
  • [x] PoC shadow simulation

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• scientific paper on gossipsub improvments
  • [ ] ready for submission
  • [ ] submitted to conference + accepted

long term goal

Significantly improve the efficiency of gossipsub in regards to both bandwidth and latency

• investigate and identify desirable bandwidth vs latency tradeoffs

This will allow scaling gossipsub as well as Waku Relay, and the network layer of Nomos; and Codex, too, in the future.

links

• episub spec
• lazy sending
• EIP4844
  • website
  • Potential Gossip improvement list for EIP4844

[kaiserd]

Realted milestones have moved to the Vac DR roadmap