helper/ccnx-header-helper.h

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 * Author: Alexander Afanasyev <alexander.afanasyev@ucla.edu>
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#ifndef _CCNX_HEADER_HELPER_H_
#define _CCNX_HEADER_HELPER_H_

#include "ns3/ptr.h"

namespace ns3
{

class Header;
class Packet;

/**
 * Class implementing functionality to detect CCNx packet type and
 * create the corresponding object
 *
 * CCNx doesn't really have a header, so we need this class to
 * determine type of CCNx packet and return corresponent header class,
 * CcnxInterestHeader or CcnxContentObjectHeader
 *
 * Throws CcnxUnknownHeaderException if header type couldn't be determined
 */
class CcnxHeaderHelper
{
public:

  /**
   * Static function to create an appropriate CCNx header
   *
   * It peeks first 2 bytes of a packet.
   *
   *  All interests start with 
   *   +-----------------+  +---+---------+-------+
   *   | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 |  | 1 | 1 0 1 0 | 0 1 0 |   (0x01 0xD2)
   *   +-----------------+  +---+---------+-------+
   *
   *  All content objects start with 
   *   +-----------------+  +---+---------+-------+
   *   | 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 |  | 1 | 0 0 0 0 | 0 1 0 |   (0x04 0x82)
   *   +-----------------+  +---+---------+-------+
   *                          ^             ^^^^^
   *                          |               |
   *                      terminator      DTAG (Dictionary TAG)
   *
   * \see http://www.ccnx.org/releases/latest/doc/technical/BinaryEncoding.html
   */
  
  static Ptr<Header>
  CreateCorrectCcnxHeader (Ptr<const Packet> packet);
};

class CcnxUnknownHeaderException {};

} // namespace ns3

#endif // _CCNX_HEADER_HELPER_H_