40% update of the blog is done, working on finding smoother ways to explain findings and alternatives (focusing on a blog structure rather than a document)
Literature study related to scalability, overlay design, efficient message propagation in unstructured p2p networks
Started writing a survey report on efficient broadcast in large scale p2p networks.
vac:dr:gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-simulation
Executed different gossipsub simulations in shadow simulator
can now collect different metrics like packet delivery ratio, data overhead, control overhead, network bandwidth utilization, average latency & standard deviations
vac:dr:consensus:nomos:carnot-bribery-article
Continue work on the article on bribery attacks, PoS and Carnot. Different examples including one based on game theory were presented to show that bribery attacks are economic attacks and cannot be addressed alone in the consensus layer. Economy based solutions have to be considered at the PoS layer.
Begin work on Carnot variant that aggregates the majority of votes.
Designing the algorithm.
vac:dr:consensus:nomos:carnot-paper
Analyzing and discussing Carnot tests. There were variance in the latency results. We think it is due to the geographical distribution of nodes. Hence, Gusto was asked to use a single geographic zone to acheive a smooth curve while verifying that the variance is due to the latency cause by geographical distribution of nodes.