ns3::TrafficGeneratorHelper Class Reference

A helper to make it easier to instantiate an ns3::TrafficGenerator types of applications on a set of nodes. More...

#include "traffic-generator-helper.h"

Public Member Functions
	TrafficGeneratorHelper (std::string protocol, Address address, TypeId ftpTypeId)
ApplicationContainer	Install (NodeContainer c) const
ApplicationContainer	Install (Ptr< Node > node) const
ApplicationContainer	Install (std::string nodeName) const
void	SetAttribute (std::string name, const AttributeValue &value)

Detailed Description

A helper to make it easier to instantiate an ns3::TrafficGenerator types of applications on a set of nodes.

Definition at line 27 of file traffic-generator-helper.h.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

TrafficGeneratorHelper()

ns3::TrafficGeneratorHelper::TrafficGeneratorHelper	(	std::string	protocol,
		Address	address,
		TypeId	ftpTypeId
	)

Create an TrafficGeneratorHelper to make it easier to work with TrafficGenerator types

Parameters

protocol	the name of the protocol to use to send traffic by the applications. This string identifies the socket factory type used to create sockets for the applications. A typical value would be ns3::UdpSocketFactory.
address	the address of the remote node to send traffic to.
ftpTypeId	a TypeId of the FTP application to be used by this helper

Definition at line 16 of file traffic-generator-helper.cc.

Member Function Documentation

Install() [1/3]

ApplicationContainer ns3::TrafficGeneratorHelper::Install

(

NodeContainer

c

)

const

Install an ns3::TrafficGenerator on each node of the input container configured with all the attributes set with SetAttribute.

Parameters

c	NodeContainer of the set of nodes on which an TrafficGenerator will be installed.

Returns

Container of Ptr to the applications installed.

Definition at line 45 of file traffic-generator-helper.cc.

Install() [2/3]

ApplicationContainer ns3::TrafficGeneratorHelper::Install

(

Ptr< Node >

node

)

const

Install an ns3::TrafficGenerator on the node configured with all the attributes set with SetAttribute.

Parameters

node	The node on which an TrafficGenerator will be installed.

Returns

Container of Ptr to the applications installed.

Definition at line 32 of file traffic-generator-helper.cc.

Install() [3/3]

ApplicationContainer ns3::TrafficGeneratorHelper::Install

(

std::string

nodeName

)

const

Install an ns3::TrafficGenerator on the node configured with all the attributes set with SetAttribute.

Parameters

nodeName

The node on which an TrafficGenerator will be installed.

Returns

Container of Ptr to the applications installed.

Definition at line 38 of file traffic-generator-helper.cc.

SetAttribute()

void ns3::TrafficGeneratorHelper::SetAttribute	(	std::string	name,
		const AttributeValue &	value
	)

Helper function used to set the underlying application attributes, not the socket attributes.

Parameters

name	the name of the application attribute to set
value	the value of the application attribute to set

Definition at line 26 of file traffic-generator-helper.cc.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

• traffic-generator-helper.h
• traffic-generator-helper.cc