double-probe-example.cc

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/*
 * This example is designed to show the main features of an
 * ns3::DoubleProbe.
 */

#include <string>

#include "ns3/core-module.h"
#include "ns3/double-probe.h"

using namespace ns3;

NS_LOG_COMPONENT_DEFINE ("DoubleProbeExample");

/*
 * This is our test object, an object that increments counters at
 * various times and emits one of them as a trace source.
 */
class Emitter : public Object
{
public:
  static TypeId GetTypeId (void);
  Emitter ();
private:
  void DoInitialize (void);
  void Emit (void);
  void Count (void);

  TracedValue<double> m_counter;  // normally this would be integer type
  Ptr<ExponentialRandomVariable> m_var;

};

NS_OBJECT_ENSURE_REGISTERED (Emitter);

TypeId
Emitter::GetTypeId (void)
{
  static TypeId tid = TypeId ("ns3::Emitter")
    .SetParent<Object> ()
    .SetGroupName ("Stats")
    .AddConstructor<Emitter> ()
    .AddTraceSource ("Counter",
                     "sample counter",
                     MakeTraceSourceAccessor (&Emitter::m_counter),
                     "ns3::TracedValueCallback::Double")
  ;
  return tid;
}

Emitter::Emitter (void)
{
  NS_LOG_FUNCTION (this);
  m_counter = 0;
  m_var = CreateObject<ExponentialRandomVariable> ();
}

void
Emitter::DoInitialize (void)
{
  NS_LOG_FUNCTION (this);
  Simulator::Schedule (Seconds (m_var->GetValue ()), &Emitter::Emit, this);
  Simulator::Schedule (Seconds (m_var->GetValue ()), &Emitter::Count, this);
}

void
Emitter::Emit (void)
{
  NS_LOG_FUNCTION (this);
  NS_LOG_DEBUG ("Emitting at " << Simulator::Now ().GetSeconds ());
  Simulator::Schedule (Seconds (m_var->GetValue ()), &Emitter::Emit, this);
}

void
Emitter::Count (void)
{
  NS_LOG_FUNCTION (this);
  NS_LOG_DEBUG ("Counting at " << Simulator::Now ().GetSeconds ());
  m_counter += 1.0;
  DoubleProbe::SetValueByPath ("/Names/StaticallyAccessedProbe", m_counter);
  Simulator::Schedule (Seconds (m_var->GetValue ()), &Emitter::Count, this);
}

// This is a function to test hooking a raw function to the trace source
void
NotifyViaTraceSource (std::string context, double oldVal, double newVal)
{
  NS_LOG_DEBUG ("context: " << context << " old " << oldVal << " new " << newVal);
}

// This is a function to test hooking it to the probe output
void
NotifyViaProbe (std::string context, double oldVal, double newVal)
{
  NS_LOG_DEBUG ("context: " << context << " old " << oldVal << " new " << newVal);
}

int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
  CommandLine cmd (__FILE__);
  cmd.Parse (argc, argv);
  bool connected;

  Ptr<Emitter> emitter = CreateObject<Emitter> ();
  Names::Add ("/Names/Emitter", emitter);

  //
  // The below shows typical functionality without a probe
  // (connect a sink function to a trace source)
  //
  connected = emitter->TraceConnect ("Counter", "sample context", MakeCallback (&NotifyViaTraceSource));
  NS_ASSERT_MSG (connected, "Trace source not connected");

  //
  // Next, we'll show several use cases of using a Probe to access and
  // filter the values of the underlying trace source
  //

  //
  // Probe1 will be hooked directly to the Emitter trace source object
  //

  // probe1 will be hooked to the Emitter trace source
  Ptr<DoubleProbe> probe1 = CreateObject<DoubleProbe> ();
  // the probe's name can serve as its context in the tracing
  probe1->SetName ("ObjectProbe");

  // Connect the probe to the emitter's Counter
  connected = probe1->ConnectByObject ("Counter", emitter);
  NS_ASSERT_MSG (connected, "Trace source not connected to probe1");

  // The probe itself should generate output.  The context that we provide
  // to this probe (in this case, the probe name) will help to disambiguate
  // the source of the trace
  connected = probe1->TraceConnect ("Output", probe1->GetName (), MakeCallback (&NotifyViaProbe));
  NS_ASSERT_MSG (connected, "Trace source not connected to probe1 Output");

  //
  // Probe2 will be hooked to the Emitter trace source object by
  // accessing it by path name in the Config database
  //

  // Create another similar probe; this will hook up via a Config path
  Ptr<DoubleProbe> probe2 = CreateObject<DoubleProbe> ();
  probe2->SetName ("PathProbe");

  // Note, no return value is checked here
  probe2->ConnectByPath ("/Names/Emitter/Counter");

  // The probe itself should generate output.  The context that we provide
  // to this probe (in this case, the probe name) will help to disambiguate
  // the source of the trace
  connected = probe2->TraceConnect ("Output", "/Names/Probes/PathProbe/Output", MakeCallback (&NotifyViaProbe));
  NS_ASSERT_MSG (connected, "Trace source not connected to probe2 Output");

  //
  // Probe3 will be called by the emitter directly through the
  // static method SetValueByPath().
  //
  Ptr<DoubleProbe> probe3 = CreateObject<DoubleProbe> ();
  probe3->SetName ("StaticallyAccessedProbe");
  // We must add it to the config database
  Names::Add ("/Names/Probes", probe3->GetName (), probe3);

  // The probe itself should generate output.  The context that we provide
  // to this probe (in this case, the probe name) will help to disambiguate
  // the source of the trace
  connected = probe3->TraceConnect ("Output", "/Names/Probes/StaticallyAccessedProbe/Output", MakeCallback (&NotifyViaProbe));
  NS_ASSERT_MSG (connected, "Trace source not connected to probe3 Output");

  // The Emitter object is not associated with an ns-3 node, so
  // it won't get started automatically, so we need to do this ourselves
  Simulator::Schedule (Seconds (0.0), &Emitter::Initialize, emitter);

  Simulator::Stop (Seconds (100.0));
  Simulator::Run ();
  Simulator::Destroy ();

  return 0;
}