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Use Zenoh in gz-transport #559

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azeey opened this issue Nov 26, 2024 · 0 comments
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Use Zenoh in gz-transport #559

azeey opened this issue Nov 26, 2024 · 0 comments

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azeey commented Nov 26, 2024

gz-transport has its own implementation of discovery and message transport built on top of zeromq. This has served Gazebo well for a long time, but it's had its downsides:

  • Having our own custom discovery protocol means
    • it is difficult to support languages other than C++
    • we have to maintain it
  • gz-transport uses Multicast UDP for discovery which doesn't work out of the box on some platforms due to firewall settings
  • gz-transport has one thread to service messages which can be a performance bottleneck.

Adopting Zenoh would solve some or all of these problems. The ROS 2 project has invested a lot on Zenoh and Gazebo also using Zenoh could create better Gazebo/ROS integration down the road.

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