vnews: a multicast, multimedia news service with virtual messages

Author

Kowalchuk, Robert J. ; Hilderman, Robert J. ; Hamilton, Howard J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Regina Univ., Sask., Canada

fYear

1996

fDate

27-29 Mar 1996

Firstpage

44

Lastpage

50

Abstract

We describe the vnews news service, an alternative to the USENET news service that provides full read compatibility with USENET news. vnews allows the posting of binary (8-bit) messages without extra encoding. An interface is provided to metaviewer, a utility for displaying multimedia mail messages which can be composed as a series of attachments. Multicast network transport is used to provide efficiency and automatic connection of new news servers to the news feed. The vnews protocol detects and corrects some classes of errors, such as corrupt packets, lost packets, and incorrectly vnews also provides virtual message for storage efficiency

Keywords

Internet; electronic mail; error correction; multimedia communication; network servers; packet switching; protocols; telecommunication networks; 8 bit; Internet; USENET news service; automatic connection; binary messages; corrupt packets; error correction; interface; lost packets; metaviewer; multicast network transport; multicast news service; multimedia mail messages display utility; multimedia news service; news feed; news servers; read compatibility; storage efficiency; virtual message; virtual messages; vnews news service; vnews protocol; Access protocols; Computer science; Encoding; Feeds; Graphics; Internet; Network servers; Postal services; Transport protocols; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications, 1996., Conference Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE Fifteenth Annual International Phoenix Conference on

Conference_Location

Scottsdale, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3255-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCCC.1996.493611

Filename

493611