Meeting Rene / Christian

Goal: Optimize payment success and time metrics under the given constraints.

Topology optimization

Peer selection for balanced channel usage

  • Optimize for fund reuse, by selecting a position that is nicely balanced.
  • Otherwise it depletes over time.
  • Needs extra information on user behavior to do better than betweenness optimization.

Payment optimization

Optimal probing

  • Might be interesting

Rebalancing Negotiation Protocol

  • Siehe BOLT 14 proposal
  • Maxflow doesn't change while rebalancing (but max flow not so important?)
    • Time to completion on the other hand is very important!
    • Having any idea of how the distribution in the channels looks like can help us avoid deadends
    • Uniform distribution seems to be the worst distribution to make deductions from (bimodal is even worse).
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