Red5 network: Decentralized real-time secure video streaming service

Abstract

Real time video streaming solutions have seen an exponential growth over the past years, with their main limit being the high costs associated to the amount of outgoing bandwidth required to serve high quality content to millions of users. This demo paper presents Red5 Network, a decentralized live video streaming platform which lowers the cost of bandwidth while guaranteeing as close to real-time end-to-end latency as possible and the delivery of encrypted streams. Costs are lowered by using resources shared by users and managed through a blockchain. The Red5 Network demo demonstrates that it can create a peer-to-peer network between the shared resources to deliver live streams with sub 500ms end-to-end latency while compensating the users proportionally to the resources that they provide.