the proliferation of information and communications technology (ict) along with the incremental growth in the use of cloud services, enterprise network and data center technologies in recent years, have caused unprecedented expansion of computer networks. however, the existing network architecture was not well designed to meet the requirements of today's needs. one of the most important pr...

Credit networks rely on decentralized, pairwise trust relationships (channels) to exchange money or goods. arise naturally in many financial systems, including the recent construct of payment channel blockchain systems. An important performance metric for these is their transaction throughput. However, predicting throughput a credit network nontrivial. Unlike traditional communication channels,...