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 * Copyright (c) 2010 Universita' di Firenze, Italy
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 *
 * Author: Tommaso Pecorella (tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it)
 * Author: Valerio Sartini (valesar@gmail.com)
 */

#ifndef __ORBIS_TOPOLOGY_READER_H__
#define __ORBIS_TOPOLOGY_READER_H__

#include "ns3/nstime.h"

#include "topology-reader.h"

namespace ns3 {


// ------------------------------------------------------------
// --------------------------------------------
/**
 * \brief Topology file reader (Orbis-format type).
 *
 * This class takes an input file in Orbis format and extracts all
 * the informations needed to build the topology
 * (i.e.number of nodes, links and links structure).
 * It have been tested with Orbis 0.70
 * http://www.sysnet.ucsd.edu/~pmahadevan/topo_research/topo.html
 */
class OrbisTopologyReader : public TopologyReader
{
public:
  static TypeId GetTypeId (void);

  OrbisTopologyReader ();
  virtual ~OrbisTopologyReader ();

  /**
   * \brief Main topology reading function.
   *
   * This method opens an input stream and reads the Orbis-format file.
   * Every row represents a topology link (the ids of a couple of nodes),
   * so the input file is read line by line to figure out how many links
   * and nodes are in the topology.
   *
   * \return the container of the nodes created (or empty container if there was an error)
   */
  virtual NodeContainer Read (void);

private:
  OrbisTopologyReader (const OrbisTopologyReader&);
  OrbisTopologyReader& operator= (const OrbisTopologyReader&);

  // end class OrbisTopologyReader
};

// end namespace ns3
};


#endif // __ORBIS_TOPOLOGY_READER_H__


