Off-Chain Micropayment Pool for High-ThroughputBandwidth Sharing Rewards

TL;DR

This paper introduces a layer-2 off-chain micropayment pool tailored for high-throughput bandwidth sharing rewards, improving upon existing solutions for incentivizing user bandwidth sharing in video streaming.

Contribution

It proposes a novel micropayment pool design optimized for bandwidth rewards, enhancing scalability and efficiency over traditional off-chain payment channels.

Findings

The proposed design supports higher transaction throughput.

It is more effective for bandwidth reward use cases.

Analysis shows improved suitability over existing solutions.

Abstract

This paper presents a layer-2 micropayment pool design which supports high-throughput blockchain off-chain payment, designed specifically for the use case of rewarding users who share redundant bandwidth to assist video stream delivery. We analyze the validity and effectiveness of the proposed micropayment pool. Our analysis results demonstrate that the proposed micropayment pool design is better suited for the bandwidth reward use case compared to existing off-chain payment channel solution.