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verified publisher icon renepickhardt

Study braess paradoxon

Open renepickhardt opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox

I think in lightning a similar thing can happen. Channels only allow for a certain throughput (htlcs/sec) but if a high liquidity / low fee channel is created many nodes could select this Chanel

renepickhardt avatar May 10 '21 08:05 renepickhardt

We could in particular try to understand when (statistically) a probability based routing algo would start to jamm high liquidity channels and compare conjestion with a more randomized strategy. While the later might need more attempts and be slower it could be better to avoid network conjestion

renepickhardt avatar May 10 '21 11:05 renepickhardt