Fast Channel Change IPTV System for Enhanced User Experience

The convergence of the telecommunications can be easily achieved by the combination of existing network technology and multimedia technology, but in reality, as seen in the actual implementation of IPVT, it´s difficult to provide satisfactory levels of service to users due to issues of network bandwidth and problems of streaming system. IPTV user often experience slow response times. Therefore this thesis proposes efficient IPTV system for enhanced user experience. By making IP set-top-boxes share cached channel information and content with each other, reducing the load on the server and enhancing the channel changing time is made possible.