Print Email Facebook Twitter Comparing Lightning Routing Protocols to Routing Protocols with Splitting Title Comparing Lightning Routing Protocols to Routing Protocols with Splitting Author Andreescu, Dan (TU Delft Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science; TU Delft Distributed Systems) Contributor Ersoy, O. (mentor) Roos, S. (graduation committee) Houben, G.J.P.M. (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Computer Science and Engineering Project CSE3000 Research Project Date 2021-07-01 Abstract The largest payment channel network, Bitcoin Lightning, shows a potential alternative to cur- rent financial systems, overcoming the scalability limitations of blockchain. Source onion routing is used to route payments, but novel routing protocols claim improved effectiveness by employ- ing strategies not compatible with the current state of affairs. In this paper, we compare the current implementations deployed in the Lightning Network, with a novel routing algorithm with splitting and local routing. We find the latter option to significantly boost the success ratio of payments, while inducing some monetary overhead. Then, we propose future directions of research on Lightning protocols to boost their performance. Subject blockchainroutingpayment channel network To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0bf2a223-d3b4-401c-967c-c11c300df5df Part of collection Student theses Document type bachelor thesis Rights © 2021 Dan Andreescu Files PDF RP_plan_11.pdf 330.64 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:0bf2a223-d3b4-401c-967c-c11c300df5df/datastream/OBJ/view