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Towards a Concurrent and Distributed Route Selection for Payment Channel Networks

Rohrer, Elias; Laß, Jann-Frederik; Tschorsch, Florian

Payment channel networks use off-chain transactions to provide virtually arbitrary transaction rates. In this paper, we provide a new perspective on payment channels and consider them as a flow network. We propose an extended push-relabel algorithm to find payment flows in a payment channel network. Our algorithm enables a distributed and concurrent execution without violating capacity constraints. To this end, we introduce the concept of capacity locking. We prove that flows are valid and present first results.
Published in: Data Privacy Management, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology. DPM 2017, CBT 2017., 10.1007/978-3-319-67816-0_23, Springer