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 * Author: Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>

 */

#ifndef PACKET_H

#define PACKET_H

#include <stdint.h>

#include "buffer.h"

#include "header.h"

#include "trailer.h"

#include "packet-metadata.h"

#include "ns3/callback.h"

#include "ns3/assert.h"

#include "ns3/ptr.h"

namespace ns3 {

/**

 * \brief Iterator over the set of tags in a packet

 *

 * This is a java-style iterator.

 */

class TagIterator

{

public:

  /**

   * Identifies a set tag and a set of bytes within a packet

   * to which the tag applies.

   */

  class Item

  {

  public:

    /**

     * \returns the ns3::TypeId associated to this tag.

     */

    TypeId GetTypeId (void) const;

    /**

     * \returns the index of the first byte tagged by this tag.

     *

     * The index is an offset from the start of the packet.

     */

    uint32_t GetStart (void) const;

    /**

     * \returns the index of the last byte tagged by this tag.

     *

     * The index is an offset from the start of the packet.

     */

    uint32_t GetEnd (void) const;

    /**

     * \param tag the user tag to which the data should be copied.

     *

     * Read the requested tag and store it in the user-provided

     * tag instance. This method will crash if the type of the

     * tag provided by the user does not match the type of

     * the underlying tag.

     */

    void GetTag (Tag &tag) const;

  private:

    friend class TagIterator;

    Item (TypeId tid, uint32_t start, uint32_t end, TagBuffer buffer);

    TypeId m_tid;

    uint32_t m_start;

    uint32_t m_end;

    TagBuffer m_buffer;

  };

  /**

   * \returns true if calling Next is safe, false otherwise.

   */

  bool HasNext (void) const;

  /**

   * \returns the next item found and prepare for the next one.

   */

  Item Next (void);

private:

  friend class Packet;

  TagIterator (TagList::Iterator i);

  TagList::Iterator m_current;

};

/**

 * \brief network packets

 *

 * Each network packet contains a byte buffer, a list of tags, and

 * metadata.

 *

 * - The byte buffer stores the serialized content of the headers and trailers 

 * added to a packet. The serialized representation of these headers is expected

 * to match that of real network packets bit for bit (although nothing

 * forces you to do this) which means that the content of a packet buffer

 * is expected to be that of a real packet.

 *

 * - The list of tags stores an arbitrarily large set of arbitrary 

 * user-provided data structures in the packet: only one instance of

 * each type of data structure is allowed in a list of tags. 

 * These tags typically contain per-packet cross-layer information or 

 * flow identifiers. Each tag stored in the tag list can be at most

 * 16 bytes big. Trying to attach bigger data structures will trigger

 * crashes at runtime.

 *

 * - The metadata describes the type of the headers and trailers which

 * were serialized in the byte buffer. The maintenance of metadata is

 * optional and disabled by default. To enable it, you must call

 * Packet::EnableMetadata and this will allow you to get non-empty

 * output from Packet::Print and Packet::Print.

 *

 * Implementing a new type of Header or Trailer for a new protocol is 

 * pretty easy and is a matter of creating a subclass of the ns3::Header 

 * or of the ns3::Trailer base class, and implementing the methods

 * described in their respective API documentation.

 *

 * Implementing a new type of Tag requires roughly the same amount of

 * work and this work is described in the ns3::Tag API documentation.

 *

 * The performance aspects of the Packet API are discussed in 

 * \ref packetperf

 */

class Packet 

{

public:

  void Ref (void) const;

  void Unref (void) const;

  Ptr<Packet> Copy (void) const;

  /**

   * Create an empty packet with a new uid (as returned

   * by getUid).

   */

  Packet ();

  /**

   * Create a packet with a zero-filled payload.

   * The memory necessary for the payload is not allocated:

   * it will be allocated at any later point if you attempt

   * to fragment this packet or to access the zero-filled

   * bytes. The packet is allocated with a new uid (as 

   * returned by getUid).

   * 

   * \param size the size of the zero-filled payload

   */

  Packet (uint32_t size);

  /**

   * Create a packet with payload filled with the content

   * of this buffer. The input data is copied: the input

   * buffer is untouched.

   *

   * \param buffer the data to store in the packet.

   * \param size the size of the input buffer.

   */

  Packet (uint8_t const*buffer, uint32_t size);

  /**

   * Create a new packet which contains a fragment of the original

   * packet. The returned packet shares the same uid as this packet.

   *

   * \param start offset from start of packet to start of fragment to create

   * \param length length of fragment to create

   * \returns a fragment of the original packet

   */

  Ptr<Packet> CreateFragment (uint32_t start, uint32_t length) const;

  /**

   * \returns the size in bytes of the packet (including the zero-filled

   *          initial payload)

   */

  uint32_t GetSize (void) const;

  /**

   * Add header to this packet. This method invokes the

   * GetSerializedSize and Serialize

   * methods to reserve space in the buffer and request the 

   * header to serialize itself in the packet buffer.

   *

   * \param header a reference to the header to add to this packet.

   */

  void AddHeader (const Header & header);

  /**

   * Deserialize and remove the header from the internal buffer.

   * This method invokes Deserialize.

   *

   * \param header a reference to the header to remove from the internal buffer.

   * \returns the number of bytes removed from the packet.

   */

  uint32_t RemoveHeader (Header &header);

  /**

   * Add trailer to this packet. This method invokes the

   * GetSerializedSize and Serialize

   * methods to reserve space in the buffer and request the trailer 

   * to serialize itself in the packet buffer.

   *

   * \param trailer a reference to the trailer to add to this packet.

   */

  void AddTrailer (const Trailer &trailer);

  /**

   * Remove a deserialized trailer from the internal buffer.

   * This method invokes the Deserialize method.

   *

   * \param trailer a reference to the trailer to remove from the internal buffer.

   * \returns the number of bytes removed from the end of the packet.

   */

  uint32_t RemoveTrailer (Trailer &trailer);

  /**

   * \param os output stream in which the data should be printed.

   *

   * Iterate over the tags present in this packet, and

   * invoke the Print method of each tag stored in the packet.

   */

  void PrintTags (std::ostream &os) const;

  /**

   * Concatenate the input packet at the end of the current

   * packet. This does not alter the uid of either packet.

   *

   * \param packet packet to concatenate

   */

  void AddAtEnd (Ptr<const Packet> packet);

  /**

   * \param size number of padding bytes to add.

   */

  void AddPaddingAtEnd (uint32_t size);

  /** 

   * Remove size bytes from the end of the current packet

   * It is safe to remove more bytes that what is present in

   * the packet.

   *

   * \param size number of bytes from remove

   */

  void RemoveAtEnd (uint32_t size);

  /** 

   * Remove size bytes from the start of the current packet.

   * It is safe to remove more bytes that what is present in

   * the packet.

   *

   * \param size number of bytes from remove

   */

  void RemoveAtStart (uint32_t size);

  /**

   * If you try to change the content of the buffer

   * returned by this method, you will die.

   *

   * \returns a pointer to the internal buffer of the packet.

   */

  uint8_t const *PeekData (void) const;

  /**

   * A packet is allocated a new uid when it is created

   * empty or with zero-filled payload.

   *

   * Note: This uid is an internal uid and cannot be counted on to

   * provide an accurate counter of how many "simulated packets" of a

   * particular protocol are in the system. It is not trivial to make

   * this uid into such a counter, because of questions such as what

   * should the uid be when the packet is sent over broadcast media, or

   * when fragmentation occurs. If a user wants to trace actual packet

   * counts, he or she should look at e.g. the IP ID field or transport

   * sequence numbers, or other packet or frame counters at other

   * protocol layers.

   *

   * \returns an integer identifier which uniquely

   *          identifies this packet.

   */

  uint32_t GetUid (void) const;

  /**

   * \param os output stream in which the data should be printed.

   *

   * Iterate over the headers and trailers present in this packet, 

   * from the first header to the last trailer and invoke, for

   * each of them, the user-provided method Header::DoPrint or 

   * Trailer::DoPrint methods.

   */

  void Print (std::ostream &os) const;

  PacketMetadata::ItemIterator BeginItem (void) const;

  /**

   * By default, packets do not keep around enough metadata to

   * perform the operations requested by the Print methods. If you

   * want to be able to invoke any of the two ::Print methods, 

   * you need to invoke this method at least once during the 

   * simulation setup and before any packet is created.

   *

   * The packet metadata is also used to perform extensive

   * sanity checks at runtime when performing operations on a 

   * Packet. For example, this metadata is used to verify that

   * when you remove a header from a packet, this same header

   * was actually present at the front of the packet. These

   * errors will be detected and will abort the program.

   */

  static void EnableMetadata (void);

  /**

   * \returns a byte buffer

   *

   * This method creates a serialized representation of a Packet object

   * ready to be transmitted over a network to another system. This

   * serialized representation contains a copy of the packet byte buffer,

   * the tag list, and the packet metadata (if there is one).

   *

   * This method will trigger calls to the Serialize and GetSerializedSize

   * methods of each tag stored in this packet.

   *

   * This method will typically be used by parallel simulations where

   * the simulated system is partitioned and each partition runs on

   * a different CPU.

   */

  Buffer Serialize (void) const;

  /**

   * \param buffer a byte buffer

   *

   * This method reads a byte buffer as created by Packet::Serialize

   * and restores the state of the Packet to what it was prior to

   * calling Serialize.

   *

   * This method will trigger calls to the Deserialize method

   * of each tag stored in this packet.

   *

   * This method will typically be used by parallel simulations where

   * the simulated system is partitioned and each partition runs on

   * a different CPU.

   */

  void Deserialize (Buffer buffer);

  /**

   * \param tag the new tag to add to this packet

   *

   * Tag each byte included in this packet with the

   * new tag.

   *

   * Note that adding a tag is a const operation which is pretty 

   * un-intuitive. The rationale is that the content and behavior of

   * a packet is _not_ changed when a tag is added to a packet: any

   * code which was not aware of the new tag is going to work just

   * the same if the new tag is added. The real reason why adding a

   * tag was made a const operation is to allow a trace sink which gets

   * a packet to tag the packet, even if the packet is const (and most

   * trace sources should use const packets because it would be

   * totally evil to allow a trace sink to modify the content of a

   * packet).

   */

  void AddTag (const Tag &tag) const;

  /**

   * \returns an iterator over the set of tags included in this packet.

   */

  TagIterator GetTagIterator (void) const;

  /**

   * \param tag the tag to search in this packet

   * \returns true if the requested tag type was found, false otherwise.

   *

   * If the requested tag type is found, it is copied in the user's 

   * provided tag instance.

   */

  bool FindFirstMatchingTag (Tag &tag) const;

  /**

   * Remove all the tags stored in this packet.

   */

  void RemoveAllTags (void);

private:

  Packet (const Buffer &buffer, const TagList &tagList, const PacketMetadata &metadata);

  Packet (const Packet &o);

  Packet &operator = (const Packet &o);

  Buffer m_buffer;

  TagList m_tagList;

  PacketMetadata m_metadata;

  mutable uint32_t m_refCount;

  static uint32_t m_globalUid;

};

std::ostream& operator<< (std::ostream& os, const Packet &packet);

/**

 * \ingroup common

 * \defgroup packetperf Packet Performance

 * The current implementation of the byte buffers and tag list is based

 * on COW (Copy On Write. An introduction to COW can be found in Scott 

 * Meyer's "More Effective C++", items 17 and 29). What this means is that

 * copying packets without modifying them is very cheap (in terms of cpu

 * and memory usage) and modifying them can be also very cheap. What is 

 * key for proper COW implementations is being

 * able to detect when a given modification of the state of a packet triggers

 * a full copy of the data prior to the modification: COW systems need

 * to detect when an operation is "dirty".

 *

 * Dirty operations:

 *   - ns3::Packet::RemoveTag

 *   - ns3::Packet::AddHeader

 *   - ns3::Packet::AddTrailer

 *   - both versions of ns3::Packet::AddAtEnd

 *

 * Non-dirty operations:

 *   - ns3::Packet::AddTag

 *   - ns3::Packet::RemoveAllTags

 *   - ns3::Packet::PeekTag

 *   - ns3::Packet::RemoveHeader

 *   - ns3::Packet::RemoveTrailer

 *   - ns3::Packet::CreateFragment

 *   - ns3::Packet::RemoveAtStart

 *   - ns3::Packet::RemoveAtEnd

 *

 * Dirty operations will always be slower than non-dirty operations,

 * sometimes by several orders of magnitude. However, even the

 * dirty operations have been optimized for common use-cases which

 * means that most of the time, these operations will not trigger

 * data copies and will thus be still very fast.

 */

} // namespace ns3

#endif /* PACKET_H */