New post on ! The paths of least resistance: Introducing WFR-Gossip By: - Thomas Thiery - Léonard Monsaingeon - Caspar Schwarz-Schilling - Julian Ma - @weboftrees - Raúl Kripalani - Yann Vonlanthen - Csaba Kiraly - Marco Munizaga 🔗 Highlights: - WFR-Gossip reduces bandwidth usage by approximately 50% compared to traditional Gossipsub methods. - It improves message delivery speed (latency) by about 40% while maintaining over 95% network coverage. - The protocol uses a mathematical approach called optimal transport to decide the best paths for message propagation. - WFR-Gossip employs a hybrid forwarding strategy that balances robustness and efficiency, ensuring messages reach their destinations without unnecessary duplicates. - Simulations show that WFR-Gossip achieves a sweet spot in performance, maximizing coverage while minimizing bandwidth usage, particularly at a robustness parameter of 3. ELI5: This research introduces a new way to share messages in a network called WFR-Gossip. Instead of sending the same message to many places at once (which wastes bandwidth), it sends messages more intelligently by choosing the fastest paths. This method reduces the number of duplicate messages and speeds up delivery.