swarms/ideas/254-ultra-light-client/README.md

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254-ultra-light-client Integration of ULC in Status Draft 2018-05-02 research b00ris
b00ris
jeka
themue
zsfelfoldi (external)
yes yes yes yes

Preamble

Idea: 254-ultra-light-client
Title: Integration of ULC in Status
Status: Draft
Created: 2018-05-02

Summary

Current LES is not yet optimized for ultra-light devices like mobile phones. So in the first step introduce the ULC addressing this kind of clients.

Swarm Participants

  • Lead Contributor: @b00ris
  • Testing & Evaluation: TBD
  • Contributor: @jeka
  • Contributor: @themue
  • PM: @zsfelfoldi (external)
  • UX (if relevant):

Product Overview

Current LES is not optimized for usage on mobile phones. So Status is using Infura with all its assets and drawbacks. ULC is addressing ultra-light clients and distribution without dependency to central providers. Instead a network of trusted LES nodes acts as counterpart for the protocol.

So Status is supporting the development and testing of ULC to accelerate integration into go-ethereum as well as into Status itself.

Product Description

  • Research of ULC design
  • Definition and implementation of ULC
  • Integrate ULC in statusd and the lib
  • Documentation

Minimum Viable Product

Goal Date: 2018-07-02 Working board: https://github.com/status-im/go-ethereum/projects/5

Description:

  • New Ultra Light Client mode is added to patched LES
  • Integrate ULC with status-go with Status nodes as trusted nodes
  • Collect metrics (CPU, mem, disk, network I/O) when starting with a branch new install and after 1h of inactivity
  • Keep battery and network consumption at least as low as today with Infura

Iteration 2018-05-21 - 2018-06-04

Goal Date: 2018-06-04

Description:

Iteration 2018-06-04 - 2018-06-18

Goal Date: 2018-06-18

Description:

  • Support integration of ULC into go-ethereum
  • Integrate ULC to status-go
  • Changes to status-cluster for making our LES nodes ULC-compatible
  • Collect metrics (CPU, mem, disk, network I/O) when starting with a branch new install and after 1h of inactivity
  • Resolve Client connection to trusted node
  • Resolve Trusted nodes config

Iteration 2018-06-18 - 2018-07-02

Goal Date: 2018-07-02

Description:

  • Documentation
  • Release & Testing

Artifacts

  • None

Success Metrics

LES of go-ethereum is extended to use ULC with a similar or better use of bandwidth and CPU as Infura.

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