Contextual Chain: a controlled simulation study of context-informed gossip scheduling for post-partition recovery

This paper introduces Contextual Chain, a design principle in which an evolving shared communication context guides later decisions, and evaluates it in an abstract oracle-assisted simulator of post-partition recovery for a ledger-like head. A controlled equal-budget comparison finds that most of the recovery-time gain from the Adaptive schedule (about 12–14 s faster) is matched by a non-contextual schedule that concentrates synchronization around the known disruption boundary, leaving the contextual trigger a smaller end-of-horizon agreement benefit.