Introduce robust peer selection and banning mechanism

janhack · November 22, 2018, 10:04am

Dear Lisk community,

With this email I want to kickstart the discussion and gather your feedback regarding the LIP "Introduce robust peer selection and banning mechanism". You can find a short summary of the LIP and link to the LIPS repository below.

Abstract

This LIP proposes a new implementation of the P2P layer of Lisk introducing a robust peer selection with periodic shuffling and banning mechanism. We further suggest to refine the gossip-based flooding mechanism for blocks, transactions and signatures in order to improve information propagation. Together the proposed changes make the Lisk peer-to-peer network ready to scale to a large number of nodes and further increase the robustness of the network.

github.com

LiskHQ/lips/blob/master/proposals/lip-0004.md

```
LIP: 0004
Title: Introduce robust peer selection and banning mechanism
Author: Jan Hackfeld <jan.hackfeld@lightcurve.io>
Discussions-To: https://research.lisk.com/t/introduce-robust-peer-selection-and-banning-mechanism/
Status: Active
Type: Standards Track
Created: 2018-08-23
Updated: 2020-10-26
```

## Abstract

This LIP proposes a new implementation of the P2P layer of Lisk introducing a robust peer selection with periodic shuffling and banning mechanism. We further suggest to refine the gossip-based flooding mechanism for blocks, transactions and signatures in order to improve information propagation. Together the proposed changes make the Lisk peer-to-peer network ready to scale to a large number of nodes and further increase the robustness of the network.

## Copyright

This LIP is licensed under the [Creative Commons Zero 1.0 Universal](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).

## Motivation

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