A survey on blockchain scalability: From hardware to layer-two protocols

GAF Rebello, GF Camilo, LAC de Souza… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite the great success of blockchain systems in recent years, blockchains still struggle to
provide the same level of latency and throughput as centralized financial systems. The core …

Learning a scalable algorithm for improving betweenness in the lightning network

V Davis, B Harrison - 2022 Fourth International Conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a scalable algorithm for solving the Maximum Betweenness
Improvement Problem as it appears in the Bitcoin Lightning Network. In this approach, each …

Decentralizing the lightning network: a score-based recommendation strategy for the autopilot system

MS Mahdizadeh, B Bahrak, M Sayad Haghighi - Applied Network Science, 2023 - Springer
The fundamental objective of the Lightning Network is to establish a decentralized platform
for scaling the Bitcoin network and facilitating high-throughput micropayments. However, this …

Utility-aware Payment Channel Network Rebalance

W Ni, P Chen, L Chen, P Cheng, CJ Zhang… - Proceedings of the VLDB …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The payment channel network (PCN) is a promising solution to increase the throughput of
blockchains. However, unidirectional transactions can deplete a user's deposits in a …

Auto-tune: An efficient autonomous multi-path payment routing algorithm for Payment Channel Networks

HJ Hong, SY Chang, X Zhou - Computer Networks, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Payment Channel Network (PCN) is a scaling solution for Cryptocurrency networks.
We advance the PCN multi-path routing by better modeling the system and incorporating the …

Can lightning network's autopilot function use ba model as the underlying network?

Z Wang, R Zhang, Y Sun, H Ding, Q Lv - Frontiers in Physics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
By extending micropayment channel technology and building a transaction network, the
Lightning Network solves inefficient bitcoin transactions. Currently, more than 1,000 Bitcoins …

Optimally reliable & cheap payment flows on the lightning network

R Pickhardt, S Richter - arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.05322, 2021 - arxiv.org
Today, payment paths in Bitcoin's Lightning Network are found by searching for shortest
paths on the fee graph. We enhance this approach in two dimensions. Firstly, we take into …

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 …

ProfitPilot: Enabling Rebalancing in Payment Channel Networks Through Profitable Cycle Creation

GF Camilo, GAF Rebello, LAC de Souza… - … on Network and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Payment Channel Networks (PCNs) have successfully replaced slow global consensus
mechanisms with local cryptographic agreements between nodes. As PCN payments …

Rational Economic Behaviours in the Bitcoin Lightning Network

A Carotti, C Sguanci… - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Lightning Network (LN) is designed to improve the scalability of the Bitcoin blockchain
by using off-chain payments to settle transactions in a faster, cheaper, and more private …