Peer-to-peer chatroom program that manages and establishes communication and connection between peers throughout the network using distributed systems methodology.
This program contains code for the peer process. Each peer process (the user) will be responsible for connecting to the registry which resides in a centralized server in order to retreive the inital list of peer processes. The peer system consist of:
- Group Management: Listen, update, and ping other peers in the peer list
- Snippet Management: System wide broadcast of our messages to other peers in the system
- Lamport Logical Clock: Ensure message will satisfy a happens-before order
- Security Consistency: Detection and removal of unwanted disruptive spam-like peers in the system
- Communication Fault Tolerant: Manage dropped stop, and snip messages
