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+import asyncio
+import json 
+import multiaddr
+import sys
+from sender import SenderNode
+from receiver import ReceiverNode
+from libp2p.peer.peerinfo import info_from_p2p_addr
+from tests.utils import cleanup
+
+ACK_PROTOCOL = "/ack/1.0.0"
+
+"""
+Driver is called in the following way
+python receiver_driver.py topology_config.json "my_node_id"
+"""
+
+async def connect(node1, node2_addr):
+    # node1 connects to node2
+    print(node2_addr)
+    info = info_from_p2p_addr(node2_addr)
+    await node1.connect(info)
+
+async def main():
+    """
+    Read in topology config file, which contains
+    a map of node IDs to peer IDs, an adjacency list (named topology) using node IDs,
+    a map of node IDs to topics, and ACK_PROTOCOL
+
+    {
+        "node_id_map": {
+            "sender": "sender multiaddr",
+            "some id 0": "some multiaddr",
+            "some id 1": "some multiaddr",
+            ...
+        },
+        "topology": {
+            "sender": ["some id 0", "some id 1", ...],
+            "0": ["some id 0", "some id 1", ...],
+            "1": ["some id 0", "some id 1", ...],
+            ...
+        },
+        "topic_map": {
+            "some id 0": "some topic name 1",
+            "some id 1": "some topic name 2",
+            "some id 2": "some topic name 3"
+        },
+        "ACK_PROTOCOL": "some ack protocol"
+    }
+
+    Ex.
+    
+    {
+        "node_id_map": {
+            "sender": "/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/8000",
+            "0": "/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/8001",
+            "1": "/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/8002",
+            "2": "/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/8003"
+        },
+        "topology": {
+            "sender": ["0"],
+            "0": ["1", "2"],
+            "1": ["0"],
+            "2": ["0"]
+        },
+        "topic_map": {
+            "0": "topic1",
+            "1": "topic1",
+            "2": "topic1"
+        },
+        "ACK_PROTOCOL": "/ack/1.0.0"
+    }
+
+    """
+    topology_config_dict = json.loads(open(sys.argv[1]).read())
+    my_node_id = sys.argv[2]
+
+    # Get my topic
+    my_topic = topology_config_dict["topic_map"][my_node_id]
+
+    # Create Receiver Node
+    print("Creating receiver")
+    receiver_node = await ReceiverNode.create(ACK_PROTOCOL, my_topic)
+    print("Receiver created")
+
+    # Connect receiver node to all other relevant receiver nodes
+    for neighbor in topology_config_dict["topology"][my_node_id]:
+        neighbor_addr_str = topology_config_dict["node_id_map"][neighbor]
+
+        # Convert neighbor_addr_str to multiaddr
+        neighbor_addr = multiaddr.Multiaddr(neighbor_addr_str)
+        await connect(receiver_node, neighbor_addr)
+
+    # Get sender info as multiaddr
+    sender_addr_str = topology_config_dict["node_id_map"]["sender"]
+
+    # Convert sender_info_str to multiaddr
+    sender_addr = multiaddr.Multiaddr(sender_addr_str)
+
+    # Start listening for messages from sender
+    print("Start receiving called")
+    asyncio.ensure_future(receiver.start_receiving(sender_addr))
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
+    loop.run_until_complete(main())
+    loop.close()