Theme: Measure Performance of Gossipsub in the Filecoin Network

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ETA: 2023-06-30

Description: Gossipsub is the protocol that transfers blocks and messages in the Filecoin blockchain. It includes a number of smart features to achieve low propagation latency without overloading the network and the nodes, but also some security-related mechanisms to detect and automatically mitigate attacks. We currently have very little (if any!) visibility into the performance of Gossipsub. This Milestone aims to find: how fast are blocks propagating in the Filecoin blockchain, if there is virtual fragmentation (or unfair advantage) of some Storage Providers due to their geographic location, how resilient is the network against attacks, are there duplicate messages travelling in the network and overloading links and peers.

Children:

• Gossipsub: Identify extractable data from the Traces #29
• Gossipsub: Run Lotus node with gossipsub tracing #27
• Gossipsub: Create a service to write traces to postgresql #28