collect-link-estimate.h

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/**
 * \addtogroup rime
 * @{
 */
/**
 * \defgroup rimelinkestimate Link estimate management
 *
 * The link estimate module is used for computing estimations of link
 * quality. It computes a quality index for links, based on
 * information about how many times a packet has been transmitted, as
 * well as information about incoming packets. The link estimate
 * module exposes an interface that provides functions that are called
 * for incoming and outgoing packets.
 */
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 * $Id: collect-link-estimate.h,v 1.4 2011/01/09 21:14:22 adamdunkels Exp $
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/**
 * \file
 *         Header file for the Collect link estimate
 * \author
 *         Adam Dunkels <adam@sics.se>
 */

#ifndef COLLECT_LINK_ESTIMATE_H
#define COLLECT_LINK_ESTIMATE_H

#define COLLECT_LINK_ESTIMATE_UNIT           8



struct collect_link_estimate {
  uint32_t etx_accumulator;
  uint8_t num_estimates;
};

/**
 * \brief      Initialize a new link estimate
 * \param le   A pointer to a link estimate structure
 *
 *             This function initializes a link estimate.
 */
void collect_link_estimate_new(struct collect_link_estimate *le);

/**
 * \brief      Update a link estimate when a packet has been sent.
 * \param le   A pointer to a link estimate structure
 * \param num_tx The number of times the packet was transmitted before it was ACKed
 *
 *             This function updates a link estimate. This function is
 *             called when a packet has been sent. The function may
 *             use information from the packet buffer and the packet
 *             buffer attributes when computing the link estimate.
 */
void collect_link_estimate_update_tx(struct collect_link_estimate *le,
                                     uint8_t num_tx);

/**
 * \brief      Update a link estimate when a packet has failed to be sent.
 * \param le   A pointer to a link estimate structure
 * \param num_tx The number of times the packet was transmitted before it was given up on.
 *
 *             This function updates a link estimate. This function is
 *             called when a packet has been sent. The function may
 *             use information from the packet buffer and the packet
 *             buffer attributes when computing the link estimate.
 */
void collect_link_estimate_update_tx_fail(struct collect_link_estimate *le,
                                          uint8_t num_tx);

/**
 * \brief      Update a link estimate when a packet has been received.
 * \param le   A pointer to a link estimate structure
 *
 *             This function updates a link estimate. This function is
 *             called when a packet has been received. The function
 *             uses information from the packet buffer and its
 *             attributes.
 */
void collect_link_estimate_update_rx(struct collect_link_estimate *le);


/**
 * \brief      Compute the link estimate metric for a link estimate
 * \param le   A pointer to a link estimate structure
 * \return     The current link estimate metric
 *
 */
uint16_t collect_link_estimate(struct collect_link_estimate *le);

int collect_link_estimate_num_estimates(struct collect_link_estimate *le);

#endif /* COLLECT_LINK_ESTIMATE_H */

/** @} */