update peerdiscovery.md with 2-stage peer discovery process

Signed-off-by: Leo Chen <leo@harmony.one>
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Leo Chen 6 years ago
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      specs/p2p/peerdiscovery.md

@ -57,3 +57,14 @@ The new node are connected to the two P2P overlay networks.
Harmony utilizes libp2p as the underlying networking layer for peer discovery and p2p network transportation.
It is still a crucial task to understand the protocol messages and how the libp2p handles the messages.
We may need to fork the libp2p to fit our requirement during the development.
## Two Stages of Peer Discovery
Harmony uses two stages of peer discovery mechanism to form the overlay of p2p networks.
The first stage is to connect to beacon chain to stake and get the shard information.
The second stage is to create the real p2p network within the shard afterwards.
New nodes will always keep the connection to some beacon chain nodes for further communication.
The current implementation works like the following.
* beacon chain nodes bootstrap by contacting bootnodes using discovery rendezvous string "0". Then the beacon chain is formed.
* new nodes contact bootnodes using rendezvous string "0" to connect to beacon chain nodes.
* new nodes use pubsub to stake in beacon chain, and get shard information from beacon chain after the randomness and resharding algorithm.
* new nodes use the new shardID as the rendezvous string to connect to bootnodes again to form new p2p network at the shard level.

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