Balanced off-chain payment channel network routing strategy based on weight calculation

Y Liu, Y Wu, F Zhao, Y Ren - The Computer Journal, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Off-chain payment channel network is an effective solution to deal with low throughput and
high load on the blockchain. However, the quality of the routing scheme will directly affect …

[PDF][PDF] Bitcoin Layer Two Scaling Solutions: Lightening Payment Channels Network Comprehensive Review, Mechanisms, Challenges, Open Issues and Future …

MNB Yusoff, SM Abd Ali - Iraqi Journal For Computer Science and …, 2024 - iasj.net
Blockchain technology era is triggered due to current advancement in the decentralized
paradigms via facilitating secure collaboration among untrusted entities consequently …

Deep reinforcement learning-based rebalancing policies for profit maximization of relay nodes in payment channel networks

N Papadis, L Tassiulas - The International Conference on Mathematical …, 2023 - Springer
Payment channel networks (PCNs) are a layer-2 blockchain scalability solution, with its main
entity, the payment channel, enabling transactions between pairs of nodes “off-chain,” thus …

Braess paradox in layer-2 blockchain payment networks

A Kotzer, O Rottenstreich - 2023 IEEE International Conference …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Layer-2 is a popular approach to deal with the scalability limitation of blockchain networks. It
allows users to execute transactions without committing them to the blockchain by relying on …

Lightning creation games

Z Avarikioti, T Lizurej, T Michalak… - 2023 IEEE 43rd …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Payment channel networks (PCNs) are a promising solution to the scalability problem of
cryptocurrencies. Any two users connected by a payment channel in the network can …

Online admission control and rebalancing in payment channel networks

M Bastankhah, K Chatterjee, MA Maddah-Ali… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Payment channel networks (PCNs) are a promising technology to improve the scalability of
cryptocurrencies. PCNs, however, face the challenge that the frequent usage of certain …

Get Me Out of This Payment! Bailout: An HTLC Re-routing Protocol

O Ersoy, P Moreno-Sanchez, S Roos - International Conference on …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Lightning Network provides almost-instant payments to its parties. In addition to
direct payments requiring a shared payment channel, parties can pay each other in the form …

Wiser: Increasing throughput in payment channel networks with transaction aggregation

S Tiwari, M Yeo, Z Avarikioti, I Salem… - Proceedings of the 4th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Payment channel networks (PCNs) are one of the most prominent solutions to the limited
transaction throughput of blockchains. Nevertheless, PCNs suffer themselves from a …

Fence: Fee-Based Online Balance-Aware Routing in Payment Channel Networks

X Wang, R Yu, D Yang, G Xue, H Gu… - … /ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Scalability is a critical challenge for blockchain-based cryptocurrencies. Payment channel
networks (PCNs) have emerged as a promising solution for this challenge. However …

Understanding the benefit of being patient in payment channel networks

Q Bai, Y Xu, X Wang - IEEE Transactions on Network Science …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Scaling blockchain efficiency is crucial to its widespread usage in which the payment
channel is one of the most prominent approaches. With payment channels and the network …