Lightning network Routing

Author: Sierra Zou yz8342

This code is established according to the original CLoTH code.

Install requirements

Should run on Ubuntu, we also tested it in Docker. However, we found that this code may encounter some error when running on WSL or other platforms. It is caused by a bug in the original code, if you meet something like "ERROR: wrong value of parameter <%s> in <cloth_input.txt>. Possible values are true or false", please email us and we can make some modification to make it run on your platform.

Install the requirements:

sudo apt-get install gcc
sudo apt-get install libgsl-dev
sudo apt-get install python
sudo apt-get install python-pip
pip install numpy
pip install scipy

Build

Build:

make build

Run

Run and analysis results in python

mkdir outputs
GSL_RNG_SEED=2023  ./cloth outputs/
python batch-means.py outputs/

Test Different Algorithms

In cloth.c, line 24, change the value of METHOD to desired algorithm. Then build and run again.

Also, to test Landmark, you need to change cloth_input.txt, find variable mpp, and change its value to 1. This will open support for splitting payments in original code.

Other

To make your test easier, we reduce the number of payments to be simulated in this submission. You can adjust n_payments in cloth_input.txt, but it may cause errors and faults, as to simulate large network it requires many CPUs and available RAMs.