RobustPay+: Robust Payment Routing With Approximation Guarantee in Blockchain-Based Payment Channel Networks

• Published in: IEEE/ACM transactions on networking Vol. 29; no. 4; pp. 1676 - 1686
• Main Authors: Zhang, Yuhui, Yang, Dejun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.08.2021; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Algorithms; Approximation; Bitcoin; Blockchain; Cryptocurrency; Cryptography; Digital currencies; Mathematical analysis; Optimization; payment channel network; Robustness; Routing; Routing (telecommunications); Routing protocols

The past decade has witnessed an explosive growth in cryptocurrencies, but the blockchain-based cryptocurrencies have also raised many concerns, among which a crucial one is the scalability issue. Suffering from the large overhead of global consensus and security assurance, even the leading cryptocu...