spectrum-signal-parameters.h

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 * Author: Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
 */
 
#ifndef SPECTRUM_SIGNAL_PARAMETERS_H
#define SPECTRUM_SIGNAL_PARAMETERS_H
 
#include <ns3/matrix-array.h>
#include <ns3/nstime.h>
 
namespace ns3
{
 
class SpectrumPhy;
class SpectrumValue;
class AntennaModel;
 
/**
 * \ingroup spectrum
 *
 * This struct provides the generic signal representation to be used by
 * all wireless technologies. Any specific wireless technology is
 * allowed to define additional signal parameters by inheriting from this
 * struct and providing additional member variables. This makes sure
 * that a minimum set of parameters (in particular, the ones needed
 * for interference calculation) is
 * common across all wireless technologies, while at the same time
 * allowing each technology to have its own specific signal parameters.
 *
 * Furthermore, since the signal parameters specific of every technology inherit
 * directly from this struct, each PHY can test (by using a dynamic
 * cast) if a signal being received belongs to a given technology or not.
 *
 * \note when inheriting from this class, make sure that the assignment operator and the copy
 * constructor work properly, making deep copies if needed.
 */
struct SpectrumSignalParameters : public SimpleRefCount<SpectrumSignalParameters>
{
    /**
     * default constructor
     */
    SpectrumSignalParameters();
 
    /**
     * destructor
     */
    virtual ~SpectrumSignalParameters();
 
    /**
     * copy constructor
     * \param p object to copy
     */
    SpectrumSignalParameters(const SpectrumSignalParameters& p);
 
    /**
     * make a "virtual" copy of this class, where "virtual" refers to
     * the fact that if the actual object is a derived class of
     * SpectrumSignalParameters, then the copy is also a derived class
     * of the same type.
     * Each class inheriting from
     * SpectrumSignalParameters should override this method and use it
     * to call the copy constructor of the derived class.
     *
     * \return a copy of the (possibly derived) class
     */
    virtual Ptr<SpectrumSignalParameters> Copy() const;
 
    /**
     * The Power Spectral Density of the
     * waveform, in linear units. The exact unit will depend on the
     * type of transmission medium involved: W for radio communications, Pa for
     * underwater acoustic communications. Other transmission media to
     * be defined.
     *
     * \note when SpectrumSignalParameters is copied, only the pointer to the PSD will be copied.
     * This is because SpectrumChannel objects normally overwrite the psd anyway, so there is no
     * point in making a copy.
     */
    Ptr<SpectrumValue> psd;
 
    /**
     * The duration of the packet transmission. It is
     * assumed that the Power Spectral Density remains constant for the
     * whole duration of the transmission. In other words, all waveform
     * have a rect shape with respect to time.
     */
    Time duration;
 
    /**
     * The SpectrumPhy instance that is making the transmission
     */
    Ptr<SpectrumPhy> txPhy;
 
    /**
     * The AntennaModel instance that was used to transmit this signal.
     */
    Ptr<AntennaModel> txAntenna;
 
    /**
     * The 3D channel matrix where the dimensions are: the number of RX ports,
     * the number of TX Ports, the number of resource blocks (RBs).
     * Needed in the MIMO system in which multiple TX and RX ports can exist,
     * hence the PSD is multidimensional. Elements are the complex numbers.
     */
    Ptr<const ComplexMatrixArray> spectrumChannelMatrix;
 
    /**
     * The 3D precoding matrix where the dimensions are: the number of TX ports,
     * the number of TX streams, the number of RBs.
     */
    Ptr<const ComplexMatrixArray> precodingMatrix;
};
 
} // namespace ns3
 
#endif /* SPECTRUM_SIGNAL_PARAMETERS_H */