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 * Copyright (c) 2005 INRIA
 *
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 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
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 *
 * Author: Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
 */

#ifndef SCHEDULER_H
#define SCHEDULER_H

#include <stdint.h>
#include "event-id.h"
#include "ns3/object.h"

namespace ns3 {

/**
 * \ingroup simulator
 * \defgroup scheduler Scheduler
 *
 * \brief Maintain the event list
 *
 * This base class specifies the interface used to maintain the 
 * event list. If you want to provide a new event list scheduler, 
 * you need to create a subclass of this base class and implement 
 * all the pure virtual methods defined here. Namely:
 *   - ns3::Scheduler::Insert
 *   - ns3::Scheduler::IsEmpty
 *   - ns3::Scheduler::PeekNext
 *   - ns3::Scheduler::RemoveNext
 *   - ns3::Scheduler::Remove
 *
 * If you need to provide a new event list scheduler without
 * editing the main simulator class, you need to also implement
 * a subclass of the ns3::SchedulerFactory base class and
 * feed it to ns3::Simulator::setExternal.
 * The simplest example of a scheduler is the linked-list
 * scheduler included in ns3: see the files 
 * src/simulator/scheduler-list.h and src/simulator/scheduler-list.cc
 */
class Scheduler : public Object
{
 public:
  static TypeId GetTypeId (void);

  struct EventKey {
      uint64_t m_ts;
      uint32_t m_uid;
  };

  virtual ~Scheduler () = 0;

  /**
   * \param id event to store in the event list
   *
   * This method takes ownership of the event pointer.
   */
  virtual void Insert (const EventId &id) = 0;
  /**
   * \returns true if the event list is empty and false otherwise.
   */
  virtual bool IsEmpty (void) const = 0;
  /**
   * \returns a pointer to the next earliest event. The caller
   *      takes ownership of the returned pointer.
   *
   * This method cannot be invoked if the list is empty.
   */
  virtual EventId PeekNext (void) const = 0;
  /**
   * This method cannot be invoked if the list is empty.
   * Remove the next earliest event from the event list.
   */
  virtual EventId RemoveNext (void) = 0;
  /**
   * \param id the id of the event to remove
   * \returns true if the id was found and removed 
   *          successfully, false otherwise.
   *
   * This methods cannot be invoked if the list is empty.
   */
  virtual bool Remove (const EventId &id) = 0;
};

}; // namespace ns3


#endif /* SCHEDULER_H */