Randomly creating a cluster of chosen nodes for block verification (out of all the nodes based on a particular type of asset transaction(s)) in a raft based consensus algorithm

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Avinash Upadhyayula

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Jan 27, 2020, 6:46:22 AM1/27/20

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Is there any functionality in etcd raft library that allows randomly creation of cluster of nodes for a block that is proposed for block verification from majority of nodes in that particular cluster and canonical chain addition based on the particular type of transaction (transaction may be classified on asset/commodity type) that a block.

Here in this context, block contains a particular asset/commodity type transaction(s) only and nodes that form a cluster for block verification and canonical chain addition is subscribed for that particular type of asset/commodity type transactions only.

After this block is processed, then the cluster should be dissolved and based on the client requests this process should be getting executed again from scratch.

By this approach, i would like to add randomness in the nodes that are forming a cluster based on the location from where client request is getting initiated and forming cluster in the nearby nodes only rather than getting block verified in some other continent (as per the existing raft mechanism) and then propagating the verified block across the entire network.