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renepickhardt / Imbalance-measure-and-proactive-channel-rebalancing-algorithm-for-the-Lightning-Network

We introduce a statistical measure for the imbalance of Lightning Network Nodes and provide a greedy algorithm for nodes to selfishly decrease their imbalance which has positive effects for routing random payments
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.09555
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Definition of health #3

Open renepickhardt opened 4 years ago

renepickhardt commented 4 years ago

Currently it is the ginicoefficient which measures Ineaulity. so currently a health score of 0 is really healthy and a health score of 1 is unhealtyh. while from a statistical point of view this is nice we might want to change the definition such that the health is defined as 1 - Ginicoefficient (which is also ugly as the semantics of the statistics break)

we could call it the UNhealthiness in the same way as it is the INequality but that makes one wonder when looking at the words. Of cause one could take about illness / sicknees but that i also not so nice...

renepickhardt commented 4 years ago

So the current sugestion is to use the term Imbalance but still define network to be healthy if it has a high balance or equivilantly a low imbalance score. In that sense the algorithm can still be called the health improvement algorithm though I don't see this to be necessary.