diff --git a/tests/profiling/CommandLineProcessor.cpp b/tests/profiling/CommandLineProcessor.cpp
index 6affbbe..1b431c0 100644
--- a/tests/profiling/CommandLineProcessor.cpp
+++ b/tests/profiling/CommandLineProcessor.cpp
@@ -21,7 +21,11 @@
     po::options_description desc("Options");
     try
     {
-        desc.add_options()("help,h", "Display help messages");
+        desc.add_options()
+                ("help,h", "Display help messages")
+                ("namespace,n", po::value<std::string>(&m_UdsNamespace)->default_value("gatord_namespace"),
+                                "The Unix domain socket namespace this server will bind to.\n"
+                                "This will always be prepended with \\0 to use the abstract namespace");
     }
     catch (const std::exception& e)
     {
@@ -34,7 +38,7 @@
     {
         po::store(po::parse_command_line(argc, argv, desc), vm);
 
-        if (vm.count("help") || argc <= 1)
+        if (vm.count("help"))
         {
             std::cout << "Simulate a Gatord server to interact with ArmNN external profiling." << std::endl;
             std::cout << std::endl;
diff --git a/tests/profiling/CommandLineProcessor.hpp b/tests/profiling/CommandLineProcessor.hpp
index 441d7cd..a7e43ad 100644
--- a/tests/profiling/CommandLineProcessor.hpp
+++ b/tests/profiling/CommandLineProcessor.hpp
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 //
 #pragma once
 
+#include <string>
+
 namespace armnn
 {
 
@@ -12,12 +14,22 @@
 
 // Parses the command line to extract:
 //
+//
 
+/**
+ * Use Boost program options to process the command line.
+ * -h or --help to print the options.
+ * -n or --namespace to specify the UDS namespace that the server will be listening on.
+ */
 class CommandLineProcessor
 {
 public:
     bool ProcessCommandLine(int argc, char *argv[]);
 
+    std::string GetUdsNamespace() { return m_UdsNamespace; }
+
+private:
+    std::string m_UdsNamespace;
 };
 
 } // namespace gatordmock
diff --git a/tests/profiling/GatordMockMain.cpp b/tests/profiling/GatordMockMain.cpp
index 91fa907..b8edeb2 100644
--- a/tests/profiling/GatordMockMain.cpp
+++ b/tests/profiling/GatordMockMain.cpp
@@ -4,8 +4,7 @@
 //
 
 #include "CommandLineProcessor.hpp"
-
-#include <cstdlib>
+#include "GatordMockService.hpp"
 
 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
@@ -14,5 +13,15 @@
     {
         return EXIT_FAILURE;
     }
+    armnn::gatordmock::GatordMockService mockService;
+    if (!mockService.OpenListeningSocket(cmdline.GetUdsNamespace()))
+    {
+        return EXIT_FAILURE;
+    }
+    int clientFd = mockService.BlockForOneClient();
+    if (-1 == clientFd)
+    {
+        return EXIT_FAILURE;
+    }
     return EXIT_SUCCESS;
 }
diff --git a/tests/profiling/GatordMockService.cpp b/tests/profiling/GatordMockService.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c774ab0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/profiling/GatordMockService.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+//
+// Copyright © 2019 Arm Ltd. All rights reserved.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+//
+
+#include "GatordMockService.hpp"
+
+#include <cerrno>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <iostream>
+#include <string>
+#include <sys/socket.h>
+#include <sys/un.h>
+
+namespace armnn
+{
+
+namespace gatordmock
+{
+
+
+bool GatordMockService::OpenListeningSocket(std::string udsNamespace)
+{
+    m_ListeningSocket = socket(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM | SOCK_CLOEXEC, 0);
+    if (-1 == m_ListeningSocket)
+    {
+        std::cerr << ": Socket construction failed: " << strerror(errno) << std::endl;
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    sockaddr_un udsAddress;
+    memset(&udsAddress, 0, sizeof(sockaddr_un));
+    // We've set the first element of sun_path to be 0, skip over it and copy the namespace after it.
+    memcpy(udsAddress.sun_path + 1, udsNamespace.c_str(), strlen(udsNamespace.c_str()));
+    udsAddress.sun_family = AF_UNIX;
+
+    // Bind the socket to the UDS namespace.
+    if (-1 == bind(m_ListeningSocket, reinterpret_cast<const sockaddr *>(&udsAddress), sizeof(sockaddr_un)))
+    {
+        std::cerr << ": Binding on socket failed: " << strerror(errno) << std::endl;
+        return false;
+    }
+    // Listen for 1 connection.
+    if (-1 == listen(m_ListeningSocket, 1))
+    {
+        std::cerr << ": Listen call on socket failed: " << strerror(errno) << std::endl;
+        return false;
+    }
+    std::cout << "Bound to UDS namespace: \\0" << udsNamespace << std::endl;
+    return true;
+}
+
+int GatordMockService::BlockForOneClient()
+{
+    std::cout << "Waiting for client connection." << std::endl;
+
+    int accepted = accept4(m_ListeningSocket, nullptr, nullptr, SOCK_CLOEXEC);
+    if (-1 == accepted)
+    {
+        std::cerr << ": Failure when waiting for a client connection: " << strerror(errno) << std::endl;
+        return -1;
+    }
+
+    std::cout << "Client connection established." << std::endl;
+    return accepted;
+}
+
+
+} // namespace gatordmock
+
+} // namespace armnn
diff --git a/tests/profiling/GatordMockService.hpp b/tests/profiling/GatordMockService.hpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c19e710
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/profiling/GatordMockService.hpp
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+//
+// Copyright © 2019 Arm Ltd. All rights reserved.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+//
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include <string>
+
+namespace armnn
+{
+
+namespace gatordmock
+{
+
+
+/**
+ * A class that implements a Mock Gatord server. It will listen on a specified Unix domain socket (UDS)
+ * namespace for client connections.
+ */
+class GatordMockService
+{
+public:
+
+    /**
+     * Establish the Unix domain socket and set it to listen for connections.
+     *
+     * @param udsNamespace the namespace (socket address) associated with the listener.
+     * @return true only if the socket has been correctly setup.
+     */
+    bool OpenListeningSocket(std::string udsNamespace);
+
+    /**
+     * Block waiting to accept one client to connect to the UDS.
+     *
+     * @return the file descriptor of the client connection.
+     */
+    int BlockForOneClient();
+
+private:
+
+    int m_ListeningSocket;
+};
+
+
+} // namespace gatordmock
+
+} // namespace armnn
+
+