delay-jitter-estimation.h

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/*
 * Copyright (c) 2007 INRIA
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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 * published by the Free Software Foundation;
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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 * GNU General Public License for more details.
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 * Authors: Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
 */
#ifndef DELAY_JITTER_ESTIMATION_H
#define DELAY_JITTER_ESTIMATION_H
 
#include "ns3/nstime.h"
#include "ns3/packet.h"
 
namespace ns3
{
 
/**
 * \ingroup stats
 *
 * \brief Quick and dirty delay and jitter estimation,
 * implementing the jitter algorithm originally from
 * \RFC{1889} (RTP), and unchanged in \RFC{3550}
 *
 * This implementation uses the integer variant of the algorithm
 * given in RFC 1889 Appendix A.8 ,p. 71, and repeated in
 * RFC 3550 Appendix A.8, p. 94.
 */
class DelayJitterEstimation
{
  public:
    DelayJitterEstimation();
 
    /**
     * This method should be invoked once on each packet to
     * record within the packet the tx time which is used upon
     * packet reception to calculate the delay and jitter. The
     * tx time is stored in the packet as an ns3::Tag which means
     * that it does not use any network resources and is not
     * taken into account in transmission delay calculations.
     *
     * \param packet the packet to send over a wire
     */
    static void PrepareTx(Ptr<const Packet> packet);
 
    /**
     * Invoke this method to update the delay and jitter calculations
     * After a call to this method, \ref GetLastDelay and \ref GetLastJitter
     * will return an updated delay and jitter.
     *
     * \param packet the packet received
     */
    void RecordRx(Ptr<const Packet> packet);
 
    /**
     * Get the Last Delay object.
     *
     * \return the updated delay.
     */
    Time GetLastDelay() const;
 
    /**
     * The jitter is calculated using the \RFC{1889} (RTP) jitter
     * definition.
     *
     * \return the updated jitter.
     */
    uint64_t GetLastJitter() const;
 
  private:
    Time m_jitter{0};  //!< Jitter estimation
    Time m_transit{0}; //!< Relative transit time for the previous packet
};
 
} // namespace ns3
 
#endif /* DELAY_JITTER_ESTIMATION_H */