4.3. Communication Framework
In LibraBFT, the communication framework aims at sharing records with a subset of nodes. Specifically, the framework API consists of three primitive actions:
(i) send, where the node shares the records it has with a fixed number of peers;
(ii) broadcast, where the node sends (pushes) updates to every other node;
(iii) query-all where a node requests (pulls) updates from every other node.
Each validator in the Libra protocol maintains a full membership view of the system and connects directly to any validator it needs to communicate with.
8 Performance
Bandwidth: If we assume that each transaction requires 5 KB of traffic — including the cost of
receiving the transaction via the mempool, rebroadcasting it, receiving blocks from the leader,
and replicating to clients — then validators require a 40 Mbps internet connection to support
1,000 transactions per second. Access to such bandwidth is widely available.
Since leader broadcast proposals to every other nodes, for N nodes, this means leader’s outbound bandwidth is (N-1) * 40Mbps ?
For a cluster with 100 nodes, this means leader’s outbound bandwidth is 99 * 40 = 4Gbps?
Would you consider gossip for broadcasting proposals?