This channel uses the per parameter for periodic packet loss. That means it delivers exactly 1/per packets, followed by one drop. It does not use the BER paramater.

Inheritance diagram

The following diagram shows inheritance relationships for this type. Unresolved types are missing from the diagram.

Extends

Name	Type	Description
DatarateChannel	channel	(no description)

Parameters

Name	Type	Default value	Description
disabled	bool	false
delay	double	0s	propagation delay
datarate	double	0bps	bits per second; 0=infinite
ber	double	0	bit error rate (BER)
per	double	0	packet error rate (PER)

Properties

Name	Value	Description
class	PeriodicLossChannel

Signals

Name	Type	Unit	Description
channelBusy	long
messageSent	omnetpp::cMessage
messageDiscarded	omnetpp::cMessage

Statistics

Name	Title	Source	Record	Unit	Interpolation Mode	Description
packetsDiscarded		constant1(messageDiscarded)	count?		none
busy		channelBusy	vector?		sample-hold
utilization		timeavg(channelBusy)	last?
packetBytes		packetBytes(messageSent)	sum?	B	none
throughput		sumPerDuration(packetBits(messageSent))	last?	bps
packets		constant1(messageSent)	count?		none

Source code

//
// This channel uses the per parameter for periodic packet loss. That means it
// delivers exactly 1/per packets, followed by one drop. It does not use the
// BER paramater.
//
channel PeriodicLossChannel extends ned.DatarateChannel
{
    ber = 0; // Larger values will be ignored, only PER is used.
    @class(PeriodicLossChannel);
}

File: src/inet/common/misc/PeriodicLossChannel.ned

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