diff --git a/producer/dummy-event-detector-cpp/src/dummy_detector.h b/producer/dummy-event-detector-cpp/src/dummy_detector.h
index 6e1f3bf0b9bc1ed5d1feda0a9912f34e64236c3d..8ad0b8ece57f01858b1745c887cbb93478c4d995 100644
--- a/producer/dummy-event-detector-cpp/src/dummy_detector.h
+++ b/producer/dummy-event-detector-cpp/src/dummy_detector.h
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ class DummyDetector
 
 public:
     int main(int argc, char* argv[]);
-    void handle_file_done(hidra2::FileReferenceId reference_id, hidra2::ProducerError producer_error);
 };
 
 #endif //HIDRA2_DUMMYEVENTDETECTOR__DUMMYDETECTOR_H
diff --git a/receiver/src/main.cpp b/receiver/src/main.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391
diff --git a/receiver/src/main.cpp.cpp b/receiver/src/main.cpp.cpp
deleted file mode 100644
index 7c1b2d554f5e55c7012b834035bd5efc433b3b1d..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/receiver/src/main.cpp.cpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-//
-// Created by cpatzke on 30.11.17.
-//
-
diff --git a/receiver/src/receiver.cpp b/receiver/src/receiver.cpp
index ab046f92fd52ca713638bb62de92600cfcdbeb63..f9cc6f26b43b1105f5267b3b1143244de06c3570 100644
--- a/receiver/src/receiver.cpp
+++ b/receiver/src/receiver.cpp
@@ -1 +1,21 @@
+#include <sys/socket.h>
+#include <cstring>
+#include <netinet/in.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
 #include "receiver.h"
+
+const int Receiver::kMaxUnacceptedBacklog = 5;
+
+Receiver::Receiver(sockaddr_in listen_address) {
+  this->listen_address = listen_address;
+}
+
+void Receiver::start_listener() {
+  sockfd = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM, 0);
+  bind(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *)&listen_address, sizeof(listen_address));
+  listen(sockfd, kMaxUnacceptedBacklog);
+}
+
+void Receiver::stop_listener() {
+  close(sockfd);
+}
diff --git a/receiver/src/receiver.h b/receiver/src/receiver.h
index eb5483390aa83ef4caa635a6127381257c316006..624aa1b7f9cc5ba514c72072e4fd46e54dccf9e0 100644
--- a/receiver/src/receiver.h
+++ b/receiver/src/receiver.h
@@ -1,10 +1,19 @@
 #ifndef HIDRA2_RECEIVER_H
 #define HIDRA2_RECEIVER_H
 
+#import <string>
+
 
 class Receiver {
+ private:
+  static const int kMaxUnacceptedBacklog;
 public:
+  int sockfd, newsockfd, n, pid;
+  Receiver(sockaddr_in listen_address);
 
+  struct sockaddr listen_address;
+  void start_listener();
+  void stop_listener();
 };