DCCRJun 30, 2018

Ant routing algorithm for the Lightning Network

arXiv:1807.00151v218 citations
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This addresses routing efficiency for users of the Lightning Network, but appears incremental as it adapts existing ant algorithms to this specific domain.

The authors tackled the problem of decentralized routing in Bitcoin's Lightning Network by proposing an algorithm inspired by ant path searching, where all nodes contribute equally to path discovery.

We propose a decentralized routing algorithm that can be implemented in Bitcoin Lightning Network. All nodes in the network contribute equally to path searching. The algorithm is inspired from ant path searching algorithms.

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