routerinfo.java

peersim仿真chord协议的测试过的环境

/*
 * Copyright (c) 2003-2005 The BISON Project
 *
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package peersim.transport;

/**
 * Generic interface to be implemented by protocols that need to be assigned to
 * routers. The idea is that each node is assigned to a router, by
 * invoking {@link #setRouter(int)} method. Routers are identified by
 * integer indexes (starting from 0), based on the assumption that the
 * router network
 * is static. The router information is then used by different 
 * implementations to compute latency, congestion, etc.
 *
 * @author Alberto Montresor
 * @version $Revision: 1.4 $
 */
public interface RouterInfo
{

/**
 * Associates the node hosting this transport protocol instance with
 * a router in the router network.
 * 
 * @param router the numeric index of the router 
 */
public void setRouter(int router);

/**
 * @return the router associated to this transport protocol.
 */
public int getRouter();

}