Creating a bandwidth-meter service

Overview

A bandwidth-meter service simply measures, at regular intervals, the bandwidth usage of one or more network links, making measurement traces available as part of the simulation output. Note that this is something that’s not easy to do in real-world systems, but yay simulation!

Creating a bandwidth-meter service

In WRENCH, a bandwidth-meter service is defined by the wrench::BandwidthMeterService class, an instantiation of which requires the following parameters:

• The name of a host on which to start the service;

• A map of key-value pairs, where the keys are link names and the values are measurement periods in seconds.

The example below creates an instance that runs on host MeasurerHost, and measures the available bandwidth on link link1 every second and the available bandwidth on link link2 every 10 seconds:

auto np_service = simulation->add(
          new wrench::BandwidthMeterService("MeasurerHost", {{"link1",1.0},{"link2", 10.0}});

One the simulation is completed, bandwidth usage measurement time stamps can be accessed as follows:

auto bandwidth_usage = simulation->getOutput().getTrace<wrench::SimulationTimestampLinkUsage>();

See the documentation of wrench::SimulationOutput for more details.