An Analysis of Pervasive Payment Channel Networks for Central Bank Digital Currencies - experiments and plots
Please refer to the main README.md to see how to build the simulator and creating / activating the python environment necessary for the analysis.
This document will assume that:
- all the prerequisites for building have been installed.
- the main simulator has been built in
<BASE_DIR>/buildviacmake .. && make - the python virtual environment has been created via
cd <BASE_DIR>/utilities poetry install poetry shell (or source $(poetry env activate) if you are using poetry 2.x) - while keeping the virtualenv activated, you moved to the COMCOM directory via
cd <BASE_DIR>/experiments/2025_COMCOM
- The experiments can be executed from scratch running
./run_experiments.py. You will need ~500 GB of disk space and 3-4 days of computation; - Alternatively, a pre-packaged version of the original experiments can be
downloaded from https://zenodo.org/records/14848786.
To do this, you can run
./download-experiments-results.sh. This will require ~400 MB of free disk space to download and extract.
Once you have executed 1. or 2., you will be able to start the notebook and generate the plots.
Execute:
jupyter-notebook
And open COMCOM.ipynb.
In order to generate the plots, you will need to install some LaTeX packages, detailed in the notebook.