airtime-metric.h

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/*
 * Copyright (c) 2009 IITP RAS
 *
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 * Authors: Kirill Andreev <andreev@iitp.ru>
 */
 
#ifndef AIRTIME_METRIC_H
#define AIRTIME_METRIC_H
 
#include "ns3/mesh-wifi-interface-mac.h"
#include "ns3/wifi-mac-header.h"
 
namespace ns3
{
namespace dot11s
{
/**
 * \ingroup dot11s
 *
 * \brief Airtime link metric calculator
 *
 * Airtime link metric is defined in 11B.10 of 802.11s Draft D3.0 as:
 *
 * airtime = (O + Bt/r)* (1 + average retry counter), where:
 * - o  -- the PHY dependent channel access which includes frame headers, training sequences,
 *       access protocol frames, etc.
 * - bt -- the test packet length in bits (8192 by default),
 * - r  -- the current bitrate of the packet,
 *
 * Final result is expressed in units of 0.01 Time Unit = 10.24 us (as required by 802.11s draft)
 */
class AirtimeLinkMetricCalculator : public Object
{
  public:
    AirtimeLinkMetricCalculator();
    /**
     * \brief Get the type ID.
     * \return the object TypeId
     */
    static TypeId GetTypeId();
    /**
     * Airtime link metric is defined in Section 13.9 of IEEE 802.11-2012 as:
     *
     * airtime = (O + Bt/r) /  (1 - frame error rate), where
     * o  -- the PHY dependent channel access which includes frame headers, training sequences,
     *       access protocol frames, etc.
     * bt -- the test packet length in bits (8192 by default),
     * r  -- the current bitrate of the packet,
     *
     * Final result is expressed encoded as an unsigned integer in units of
     * 0.01 TU = 10.24 us
     *
     * \param peerAddress The peer MAC address
     * \param mac The MAC layer
     * \returns the calculated metric in units of 0.01 TU
     */
    uint32_t CalculateMetric(Mac48Address peerAddress, Ptr<MeshWifiInterfaceMac> mac);
 
  private:
    /**
     * Set number of bytes in test frame (a constant 1024 in the standard)
     * \param testLength the test length in bits
     */
    void SetTestLength(uint16_t testLength);
    /**
     * Set header TID from the Dot11MetricTid attribute
     * \param tid the header TID to use to calculate data rate
     */
    void SetHeaderTid(uint8_t tid);
 
    Ptr<Packet> m_testFrame;    ///< test frame
    WifiMacHeader m_testHeader; ///< test header
};
} // namespace dot11s
} // namespace ns3
#endif