Bus Topologies

You can configure a set of cooperating transports to establish a bus with a predetermined topology. The following topics present configuration techniques for some example topologies.

  • Unitary Mesh
    The natural topology of a unitary transport definition is a mesh, that is, a complete graph, over all its runtime transport objects.
  • Asymmetric Multicast Topologies
    In this example of an asymmetric multicast topology, three sending applications on the left side can send one-to-many messages to three receiving applications on the right side. You can easily generalize this example to any number of senders and receivers, and the number of senders and receivers need not be the same.
  • Assembling Larger Topologies from Pair Connections
    The basic building block in connection-oriented transports (such as RDMA, static TCP, or RUDP) is a pair connection, which carries two-way communication between two runtime transports across a network. You can assemble these basic parts into larger topologies, such as hub-and-spoke, or mesh.
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