Arjun’s Status Report for 14/11

This week I was mainly dealing with concurrency on the current implementation of the central node. The current working implementation was in python, and I was working with the “asyncio” library on python for the utilization of pthreads. However, I was running into issues working with the asyncio library and the program not running correctly due to the library not being completely thread safe and the program running slower than expected. I decided to switch to a select() based concurrency model, which means that the central node server would scan a set of connections to see which needs reading and loop through the connections the read from the connections deemed to be ready. This did not hinder performance of the central node and was still within the metrics that we had set (10 seconds for receiving data, 30s total). I also had a discussion with Pablo about the Jetson Nano and the Wifi adapter, which is being ordered to Pablo’s place to set up there.