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 …

Graph Neural Network-Enhanced Reinforcement Learning for Payment Channel Rebalancing

W Chen, X Qiu, Z Cai, B Tang, L Du… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Building on top of blockchain, payment channel networks-backed (PCNs) cryptocurrencies
emerge as a promising solution for a mobile payment system with fewer intermediaries …

State-dependent processing in payment channel networks for throughput optimization

N Papadis, L Tassiulas - arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.17207, 2021 - arxiv.org
Payment channel networks (PCNs) have emerged as a scalability solution for blockchains
built on the concept of a payment channel: a setting that allows two nodes to safely transact …

A machine learning-based routing technique for off-chain transactions in payment channel networks

H Kadry, Y Gadallah - … Conference on Smart Internet of Things …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Blockchain is a foundational technology that has the potential to create new prospects for
our economic and social systems. However, the lack of scalability limits the capability to …

Rebalancing in acyclic payment networks

LM Subramanian, G Eswaraiah… - … on Privacy, Security …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a technique for rebalancing link weights in acyclic payment
networks, which are peer-to-peer networks with payment channels or links between users …

REBAL: channel balancing for payment channel networks

N Awathare, VJ Ribeiro, U Bellur - 2021 29th International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cryptocurrency networks are a promising infrastructure for pseudonymous online payments.
However, low throughput has prevented their widespread acceptance. A promising solution …

Payment channel networks: Single-hop scheduling for throughput maximization

N Papadis, L Tassiulas - IEEE INFOCOM 2022-IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Payment channel networks (PCNs) have emerged as a scalability solution for blockchains
built on the concept of a payment channel: a setting that allows two parties to safely transact …

Proactive look-ahead control of transaction flows for high-throughput payment channel network

W Chen, X Qiu, Z Hong, Z Zheng, HN Dai… - Proceedings of the 13th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Blockchain technology has gained popularity owing to the success of cryptocurrencies such
as Bitcoin and Ethereum. Nonetheless, the scalability challenge largely limits its applications …

Secure balance planning of off-blockchain payment channel networks

P Li, T Miyazaki, W Zhou - IEEE INFOCOM 2020-IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Off-blockchain payment channels can significantly improve blockchain scalability by
enabling a large number of micro-payments between two blockchain nodes, without …

Payment networks as creation games

G Avarikioti, R Scheuner, R Wattenhofer - Data Privacy Management …, 2019 - Springer
Payment networks were introduced to address the limitation on the transaction throughput of
popular blockchains. To open a payment channel one has to publish a transaction on-chain …