Token Ring Project

TL;DR

This paper presents an implementation of a ring topology for process communication using pipes, enabling simulation of networks and algorithms like mutual exclusion.

Contribution

It introduces a process ring implementation with pipe links, facilitating network simulation and algorithm development in a simple, extendable framework.

Findings

Successful ring communication via pipes

Foundation for network simulation and mutual exclusion algorithms

Potential for extending to complex network protocols

Abstract

Ring topology is a simple configuration used to connect processes that communicate among themselves. A number of network standards such as token ring, token bus, and FDDI are based on the ring connectivity. This article will develop an implementation of a ring of processes that communicate among themselves via pipe links. The processes are nodes in the ring. Each process reads from its standard input and writes in its standard output. N-1 process redirects the its standard output to a standard input of the process through a pipe. When the ring-structure is designed, the project can be extended to simulate networks or to implement algorithms for mutual exclusion.