FiveGTopologyDatabase.java

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package de.tud.kom.p2psim.impl.topology.views.fiveg;

import de.tud.kom.p2psim.impl.topology.views.FiveGTopologyView;
import de.tud.kom.p2psim.impl.topology.views.FiveGTopologyView.CellLink;

/**
 * Database for the {@link FiveGTopologyView} - containing a mapping of
 * position IDs to the respective link characteristics.
 * 
 * @author Bjoern Richerzhagen
 * @version 1.0, Nov 5, 2015
 */
public interface FiveGTopologyDatabase {

	/**
	 * Calculation of a segment ID based on a position (usually given in
	 * Cartesian coordinates between 0 and WORLD_SIZE)
	 * 
	 * @param x
	 *            coordinate
	 * @param y
	 *            coordinate
	 * @return
	 */
	public int getSegmentID(double x, double y);

	/**
	 * Access to the {@link Entry} for a given segmentID. To allow distinction
	 * between clouds (full latency) and cloudlets (less latency, as the backend
	 * is "shorter"), we added a boolean "isCloudlet", which may or may not be
	 * used by the database. It is expected that the link to a cloudlet should
	 * outperform the link to a cloud.
	 * 
	 * @param segmentID
	 * @return
	 */
	public FiveGTopologyDatabase.Entry getEntryFor(int segmentID,
			boolean isCloudlet);

	/**
	 * Data structure for the network parameters of a given segment ID - these
	 * are directly accessed by the {@link CellLink} object on each call (so
	 * they should not perform expensive calculations!). We allow a distinction
	 * between up and download (from the client's perspective) via the provided
	 * boolean - upload means: from client to station, download means: from
	 * station to client.
	 * 
	 * @author Bjoern Richerzhagen
	 * @version 1.0, Nov 5, 2015
	 */
	public interface Entry {

		/**
		 * Static segment ID
		 * 
		 * @return
		 */
		public int getSegmentID();

		/**
		 * Probability of a packet drop on the link - can even be 1, so that the
		 * link is virtually disconnected.
		 * 
		 * @return
		 */
		public double getDropProbability(boolean isUpload);

		/**
		 * Latency on the link (RTT/2)
		 * 
		 * @return
		 */
		public long getLatency(boolean isUpload);

		/**
		 * Bandwidth on the link
		 * 
		 * @return
		 */
		public long getBandwidth(boolean isUpload);

	}

}