Complex Network Analysis on Blockchain Payment Channel Networks for Metaverse

Bicheng Liu; Bishenghui Tao; Hong-Ning Dai

doi:10.1109/MetaCom57706.2023.00057

Complex Network Analysis on Blockchain Payment Channel Networks for Metaverse

Bicheng Liu^*, Bishenghui Tao, Hong-Ning Dai

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

In the emerging metaverse ecosystem, blockchain is an enabling technology to ensure trustworthy transactions among metaverse virtual/real entities. However, existing blockchains suffer from their performance limitation. Payment channel networks have been emerging as a solution to dispel the performance curse of blockchains by executing transactions via a privacy channel maintained between entities. In this paper, we conduct complex network analysis on blockchain payment channel networks (PCNs). We consider two typical PCNs: the Ripple and Lightning networks as representatives. We analyze the Ripple and Lightning network from the perspectives of degree distribution, word-cloud analysis, small-world phenomenon, connected components, betweenness and closeness, and the rich-club phenomenon. We obtain some important implications through the complex network analysis, such as the scale-free phenomenon the small-world phenomenon, and the non-rich-club effect of the two typical PCNs. Such findings will contribute to future in-depth analysis of the structural characteristics of blockchain PCNs and provide guidelines for designing efficient scheduling schemes for PCNs to support diverse metaverse applications.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications, MetaCom 2023
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	274-280
Number of pages	7
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9798350333336
ISBN (Print)	9798350333343
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MetaCom57706.2023.00057
Publication status	Published - 26 Jun 2023
Event	2023 IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications, MetaCom 2023 - Kyoto, Japan Duration: 26 Jun 2023 → 28 Jun 2023 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/10271705/proceeding (Conference proceeding)

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Name	Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications, MetaCom
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Conference	2023 IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications, MetaCom 2023
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Kyoto
Period	26/06/23 → 28/06/23
Internet address	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/10271705/proceeding (Conference proceeding)

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Metaverse
Payment Channel Network
Ripple
Lightning
Complex Network Analysis

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Liu, B., Tao, B., & Dai, H.-N. (2023). Complex Network Analysis on Blockchain Payment Channel Networks for Metaverse. In Proceedings - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications, MetaCom 2023 (1st ed., pp. 274-280). (Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications, MetaCom). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/MetaCom57706.2023.00057

Liu, Bicheng ; Tao, Bishenghui ; Dai, Hong-Ning. / Complex Network Analysis on Blockchain Payment Channel Networks for Metaverse. Proceedings - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications, MetaCom 2023. 1st. ed. IEEE, 2023. pp. 274-280 (Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications, MetaCom).

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Complex Network Analysis on Blockchain Payment Channel Networks for Metaverse. / Liu, Bicheng; Tao, Bishenghui; Dai, Hong-Ning.
Proceedings - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications, MetaCom 2023. 1st. ed. IEEE, 2023. p. 274-280 (Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications, MetaCom).

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Liu B, Tao B, Dai HN. Complex Network Analysis on Blockchain Payment Channel Networks for Metaverse. In Proceedings - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications, MetaCom 2023. 1st ed. IEEE. 2023. p. 274-280. (Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications, MetaCom). doi: 10.1109/MetaCom57706.2023.00057

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