vac:dst:waku:waku-scaling
Description
Use realistic (running actual Waku nodes, no abstraction) testing, theoretical analysis and simulation to determine and improve Waku’s scaling properties. Find the limits of Waku’s capabilities and measure them in different scenarios. Deliver hard numbers and actionable insights. Confirm or reject our ideas.
Through this we will, among other things, research and find the limits of Waku’s capabilities and measure them in different scenarios. We will work with the Waku team to improve and measure Waku and allow for deep examination of a wide range of networks from sizes anywhere from small (< 500 nodes) to midscale (500-5000 nodes) to large (10,000+ nodes).
We will in some ways provide a parallel to the Vac QA team’s efforts - while their focus is on individual low level or individual parts of Waku and other software within the IFT ecosystem, ours will be on the realistic behaviour of Waku as a whole system - at different scales and with different configurations, mesh structure and shape - and how that maps to our theoretical work.
We will support the Conduit of Expertise narrative directly by providing valuable insights to Waku and the ability to theorise, reason about, test, measure and improve the performance, stability and scalability of Waku.
These efforts will contribute in these ways to the Conduit of Expertise narrative:
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Accelerate improvements to Waku, improving the developer community’s experience and satisfaction both inside and outside of IFT’s ecosystem, through allowing repeatable, measureable and realistic insights into Waku, all the way from theory to practice and back.
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Improve the RFC culture by allowing for faster and easier development of RFCs with the aid of rapidly accelerated insights into how an RFC in development will perform as it’s being expanded and as it goes through the draft process.
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Allow easier post-mortem analysis of the success or relative performance of a given RFC - does this change use more or less bandwidth? Did it improve things? Seeing the effects of changes at scale allows for a greater ability to usefully wrap up work on, and conclude, an RFC process and document and absorb what we learned in the process into further improvements.
Task List
Test Store Protocol At Scale
- fully qualified name:
vac:dst:waku:waku-scaling:test-store-protocol-at-scale - owner: Alberto
- status: 100%
- start-date: 2024/10/07
- end-date: 2024/10/18
Description
Test the Store protocol at scale.
Deliverables
- A report on the results of the test, including analysis, data and metrics.
- A list of any issues encountered (no issues reported).
- Hard data and metrics from the simulation.
Status
Fully delivered.
High Churn Relay+Store Reliability
- fully qualified name:
vac:dst:waku:waku-scaling:high-churn-relay-store-reliability - owner: Alberto
- status: 0%
- start-date: 2024/10/01
- end-date: 2024/12/31
Description
If nodes go online/offline, we should be able to retrieve missing messages from the store.
Deliverables
- A report on the results of the test, including analysis, data and metrics.
- A list of any issues encountered.
- Hard data and metrics from the simulation.
Relay/DiscV5 Resources in Heterogenous Clusters
- fully qualified name:
vac:dst:waku:waku-scaling:relay-discv5-resources-in-heterogenous-clusters - owner: Wings
- status: 0%
- start-date: 2024/10/01
- end-date: 2024/12/31
Description
Measure Relay bandwidth usage and DiscV5 bandwidth usage in heterogenous clusters involving different node implementations such as nwaku and go-waku.
Deliverables
- A report on the results of each test, including analysis, data and metrics.
- A list of any issues encountered.
- Hard data and metrics from the simulation.
Waku Shard Reliability vs Scale
- fully qualified name:
vac:dst:waku:waku-scaling:waku-shard-reliability-vs-scale - owner: Alberto
- status: 0%
- start-date: 2024/10/01
- end-date: 2024/12/31
Description
Test waku shard behaviour and stability with various of numbers of shards.
Choose a matrix to test for and then test for it.
Deliverables
- Matrix/exact deployment script defined
- A report on the results of each test, including analysis, data and metrics.
- A list of any issues encountered.
- Hard data and metrics from the simulation.
Filter and lightpush tests
Test the performance and reliability and behaviour of the Filter and lightpush protocols at scale.
Confirm their stability and reliability at various scales.
Adjust the specific tests involved in response to collaboration with the Waku team’s directions and the discoveries we make during the course of this work.
- fully qualified name:
vac:dst:waku:waku-scaling:filter-lightpush-tests - owner: Alberto
- status: 0%
- start-date: 2024/10/18
- end-date: 2024/10/25
Description
Test the Filter and lightpush protocols at scale.
Deliverables
- A report on the current reliability and performance of the protocols at scale.
- Filed any issues encountered.
- Hard data and metrics from the simulation.
Measure DiscV5 bandwidth with Waku discovery
- fully qualified name:
vac:dst:waku:waku-scaling:measure-discv5-bandwidth-with-waku-discovery - owner: Alberto
- status: 0%
- start-date: 2024/10/01
- end-date: 2024/12/31
Description
Measure the bandwidth usage of the Waku discovery protocol using the DiscV5 protocol.
Deliverables
- A report on what you’ve learnt
- Hard data and metrics from the simulation.
- A documentation page with analysis and results and notes.
Partial PeX Experimental Analysis
- fully qualified name:
vac:dst:waku:waku-scaling:partial-pex-experimental-analysis - owner: Alberto
- status: 0%
- start-date: 2024/10/01
- end-date: 2024/12/31
Description
Produce and run an experimental test environment where a partial subset of the nodes use Waku’s Peer Exchange protocol to share information about other nodes in the network.
Measure the bandwidth usage of DiscV5 on those nodes that use PeX and compare it to the DiscV5 bandwidth usage of nodes that do not.
Measure overall bandwidth usage and record conclusions as to the impact of PeX.
Deliverables
- DiscV5 bandwidth comparison document/report - PeX vs no-PeX
- Overall bandwidth usage comparison document/report
- Record conclusions as to the impact of PeX.
Mixed Environment Analysis
- fully qualified name:
vac:dst:waku:waku-scaling:mixed-environment-analysis - owner: Alberto
- status: 0%
- start-date: 2024/10/01
- end-date: 2024/12/31
Description
Measure relay resource with a mix of nodes using Resource-restricted device reliability protocol and peer exchange, meaning a small number of nwaku nodes serve store, light push and filter protocols and a high number of clients consume them. For example, 6-10 service nodes, 200 relay nodes and 1000 light nodes. This should include connection and node churn impact on reliability for both relay and light clients.
Deliverables
- A report on the findings and measurements and results.
- A list of any issues encountered.
- Analysis and actionable insights or conclusions.