Design Principle

DP14 - Multiple simultaneous connections and billing

Provide the system with a protocol for users to initiate any number of connections and for hosts to simultaneously bill users with multiple connections, in order to ensure connections without the risk of overcharging or repudiation.

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Producer label: DP14
Source paper: An Architecture Using Payment Channel Networks for Blockchain-based Wi-Fi Sharing
Timestamp: 2026-08-05T00:00:00+00:00
Bundle path: design-knowledge/wifi-sharing-payment-channels-dp14.md

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Design principle DP14: Multiple simultaneous connections and billing

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This design principle is proposed by An Architecture Using Payment Channel Networks for Blockchain-based Wi-Fi Sharing (Christian Janiesch, Marcus Fischer, Florian Imgrund, Adrian Hofmann, Axel Winkelmann, 2023).

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Design requirement AR#RR: Risk of repudiation

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AR#RR - Risk of repudiation

A Wi-Fi sharing network must prevent the risk of user repudiation emerging from service downtimes.

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An Architecture Using Payment Channel Networks for Blockchain-based Wi-Fi Sharing

The authors derive a comprehensive collection of 14 design principles for workable Wi-Fi sharing networks and propose a reference architecture combining a blockchain (for trust and immutable records) with payment channel networks (for fast, cheap micro-payments), augmenting current approaches with adequate accounting mechanisms.

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An Architecture Using Payment Channel Networks for Blockchain-based Wi-Fi Sharing
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An Architecture Using Payment Channel Networks for Blockchain-based Wi-Fi Sharing
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DP14 - Multiple simultaneous connections and billing
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