Re: packet delay not equal to link delay .

[Roberto Barnes <rbarnes1@pizza.csl.uiuc.edu>]

I think you should try using Scheduler::instance().clock()
instead of gettimeofday.  Remember that you are running on "simulation
time," and not real time.

Roberto


On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Shekhar A Amlekar wrote:

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> Hello all,
> 	I've created a agent of my own ( say myrtp ).
> 	I'm sending 'myrtp' packets over a link which has some delay.
> 	I'm keeping the time at which the pkt is sent in the packet,
> 	and at the receiver I'm printing the delay encountered by the pkt.
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> 	i.e. delay = current time - time at which the pkt is send.
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> 	I'm using gettimeofday to obtain the times.
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> 	I was expecting the delay to be more or less equal to the link
> 	delay. But it's nowhere near to that.Further for diff. pkts this
> 	delay is diff with large deviation.
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>         There are no queues formed.
> 
> 	Can somebody justify this ?
> tks
> Shekhar
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