genWork

Description

The genWork command generates a transaction workload to be used in the payment channel network simulator. PCNsim offers genWork modeling following a real-world data from a credit-card and an e-commerce dataset as the Lighnint Network does not disclose transaction information due to privacy issues.

genWork

Usage: generate_topology_workload.py genWork [OPTIONS]

  Generates a payment workload for the simulation

Options:
  --n_payments INTEGER   Number of payments in the network simulation
  --min_payment FLOAT    Minimum value of a payment in the network
  --max_payment INTEGER  Maximum value of a payment in the network
  --any_node             Transactions are issued by any node in the network,
                         not only end hosts

  --credit_card          Transactions are modeled following a credit card
                         dataset

  --e_commerce           Transactions are modeled following a e-commerce
                         dataset

  --help                 Show this message and exit.

Default Values

• --n_payments: Number of payments in the PCN simulation. The selected number of payments will be issued by a randomly selected node to another randomly selected node. This value as to be an integer.

  • Default value: 1

• --min_payments: Minimum value of a payment in the PCN simulation. This value has to be an float.

  • Default value: 0.1

• --max_payments: Maximum value of a payment in the PCN simulation. This value has to be an float.

  • Default value: 1

Flags

• --any_node: By default, PCNsim restricts the act of issuing a transaction to end-hosts. Therefore, core nodes act only as intermediary, forwarding trasactions, but not issuing. This flag removes this restriction and includes core nodes in the act of issuing transactions.

• --credit_card: This flag makes PCNsim model transaction values following a credit-card dataset.

• --e_commerce: This flag makes PCNsim model transaction values following an e-commerce dataset.

Example Usage