2021

2021 Roadmap

The zenoh team is currently finalising the proposal for the 2021 Q1 roadmap. Please engage on the zenoh gitter channel

January / February 2021

Security

• Authentication
• TLS

Routing

• Arbitrary DAG topology support

APIs

• C# API Beta

Performance

• Finer performance characterisation
• Performance Improvements

Mars / April 2021

Routing

• Query Targeting
• Multi-Link Inter-region Routing

zenoh API

• Add support for cardinality/commpleteness
• Allow to explicitly specify the query target
• Default Workspace

ROS / DDS Interoperability

• ROS type codec support. This will allow zenoh applications to read/write ROS2 topics without having to bother with CDR encoding.

• Topic White/Black listing for zenoh DDS plug-in (this will allow to control the DDS topics exposed across zenoh)

• Peer-to-Peer support for dds-zenoh-plugin

• Make the dds-zenoh-plugin as actual plugin for Zenoh router additionally to a service

Next

Mobility Support

• Mobility Mode, to optimise communication with infrastructure for applications moving in space, e.g., cars, robots, mobile phones, etc.
• Session Migration

APIs

• Go-Lang API
• Java API

Write API

• Add option for application level ACK

Transport

• End-to-End Reliability
• Reliability for best-effort transports
• Support for DTLS (?)
• Add support for QUIC

Notifications

• Add callback for relevant events on discovery, disconnections, etc.

Security

• Access Control -- constrain access to specific set of keys to given identities.

Query Body

• Add query body to the zenoh Query message

ROS2

• Topic White/Black listing for zenoh DDS plug-in (this will allow to control the DDS topics exposed across zenoh)
• Complete zenoh-pico RMW for MicroROS2
• Complete zenoh RMW for ROS
• Docker container with multicast support

Tool

• Infrastructure Management Web Tool

Plug-In

• MQTT Plugin for zenoh