Multireception Service for a multimedia News Application

A multimedia news application, an example of a distributed multimedia application, is described. It is explained how this type of applications benefit from advanced communication services, which provides multireception and the capability to deal with high data rates. Connection and resource management issues that are main concerns in such applications and communication services are outlined. 1.0 Introduction In recent years, distributed applications such as FTP, gopher, file servers, e-mail, usenet news and WWW browsers have become widely used (and mainly textbased) tools. These distributed applications rely heavily on the availability of communication services. A wide variety of communication services and protocols have been developed to support such distributed applications Future distributed applications will likely use video, audio, and textual data (hence: distributed multimedia applications). Such applications require communication support functions that can deal with higher ban..