Populating messages with data in veins - omnet++

I am working on a project where an RSU sends beacons to the cars in its range .When this beacon is received by the car it should send its id back to the RSU.I made a custom message file with just the vehicle id in it.This is how i am handling the beacons now.
void MyVeinsApp::onBSM(DemoSafetyMessage* bsm)
{
findHost()->getDisplayString().setTagArg("i", 1, "green");
if(sentMessage==false){
sendDown(bsm);
//scheduleAt(simTime() + 2 + uniform(0.01, 0.2), wsm->dup());
sentMessage=true;
}
}
This does not work for me at all.Is there any way I can send messages from cars to RSU?

I am not an expert but i recently started working on a similar project with yours. So your message includes a parameter like, let say, vehicle_id and upon receiving a beacon you have to send the message to the RSU with the id include. To do such thing you have to first of all fill the message with the vehicle id like
bsm->setVehicle_id(findHost()->getIndex());
When you create a new message file with variables inside it and then building it the program also creates the get() and set() functions in order to handle those parameters.
Now for the RSU to simply acquire the message variable you have sent it must call the get() function like:
RSU_vehicle_id=wsm->getVehicle_id();
So now you have a variable that includes the received vehicle node id.
I highly suggest you to offer a couple of day just to understand the principles behind the Veins tutorial and how it handles all its aspects.

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Veins onWSM is not getting called for RSU Omnet++

I am a new bee working upon Veins5.2 and Omnetpp-5.6.2 version.
I am working upon a simulation scenario in which an emergency vehicle (an Ambulance e.g;)is passing by and RSU has to send a stop message(beacon or WSM) to normal passenger cars/vehicles. I am creating my application file referring to example scenario.
Please find below snippet of my code.
void MyApplLayer::handleSelfMsg(cMessage* msg)
{
BaseFrame1609_4* wsm1 = new BaseFrame1609_4();
sendDown(wsm1);
}
void MyApplLayer::onWSM(BaseFrame1609_4* frame)
{
//this function is called for all the cars nodes in my simulation
}
void TraCIDemoRSU11p::onWSM(BaseFrame1609_4* frame)
{
//this function is never called for RSU in TraCIDemoRSU.cc
}
handleSelfMsg() and onWSM() is getting called for all the Cars in my application layer but onWSM() is not getting invoked in TraCIDempRSU11p.cc file (as per the requirement RSU has to broadcast message to stop the vehicle. For this purpose, I am trying to invoke onWSM() method for RSU (in TraCIDempRSU11p.cc file).
Could it be I am missing something in omnetpp.ini file. Could someone please suggest some way forward or any kind of suggestions/ideas are much appreciated.
I found following post during research:
RSU not receiving WSMs in Veins 4.5
the above post suggest to check handLowerMsg is getting called or not.
handleLowerMsg function (inside DemoBaseApplLayer) onWSM is getting called but only for car nodes in my scenario.

Perform action on seen/unseen messages with socket.io

What is the best practice to handle seen/unseen messages in a chat room application based on Nodejs/SocketIO/React.
Consider User1 sends a message to a room. If another user has seen that message, notify all users that the state of message has been seen.
In my opinion using message brokers can be the better solution instead socket. I actually think that socket should only handle chat messages that are synchronously. but for seen/unseen status I prefer message brokers that are asynchronous. Are there any solutions or best practice in large scale applications?
It's unclear what you have currently tried, meaning that I can only advise solutions in order to achieve your aim.
To firstly identify that a message was seen, IntersectionObserver is an inbuilt API that detects when an element has entered the viewport, meaning that it is visible, therefore; obviously seen. I have added comments in the code below where you should add a function to call to the server that the message was seen, however, that's up to you to implement.
const observer = new window.IntersectionObserver(([entry]) => {
if (entry.isIntersecting) {
// Send a message to the server that the user has viewed the message.
// Eg. socket.emit('read-message', message.id)
return
}
}, {
root: null,
threshold: 0.1,
})
observer.observe(document.getElementById(message.id));
Additionally, there's no need to use message broker, as socket.io can handle simple interactions such as this.
You then need to send a message to the server that denotes the specified message ID was seen, then broadcast to every other client that the state was changed, and update it to read - if that's needed.

Wave Short Message content

I used veins 4a2 and OMNET++ (4.6). I like to know the content of messages exchanged between vehicles in the veins example.
I have consulted waveshortmessage.msg, WaveShortMessage_m.cc and WaveShortMessage_m.h but I have not found messages content.
In waveshortmessage.msg, what means this line "string wsmData = "Some Data"" please?
And in TraCIDemp11p.cc, what means "blockedRoadId" declared in sendMessage function?
The demo application that comes with Veins 4.4 (and 4a2 as well) and that is used for the Veins tutorial reacts to messages that contain the name of a road to avoid because a car has stopped there for longer than 10s (and vice versa: the demo application sends a message when a car is stopped for longer than 10s).
The demo application is defined in TraCIDemo11p. It uses a demo message type, WaveShortMessage, as the container to inform other cars about a blocked road. For this, it stores the name of the blocked road (variable blockedRoadId) in the wsmData field of the message.

Broadcasting of Messages in Veins example

I noticed that in the Veins demo scenario a node broadcasts the data message it creates to each and every other node in the simulation.
I tried to modify that a bit. I modified the sendMessage() function in TraCIDemo11p.cc file by initializing the address of the recipient in the WSMusing the setRecipientAddress() function. But while running the simulation in Veins 3.0, I find that this message is still being broadcast to all the nodes apart from the target node.
How do I implement this p2p connection?
How do I generalize by adding an RSU to the scenario to implement a heterogeneous communication framework?
In its basis the 802.11p standard, which is the main communication standard for Vehicular Communication (and also the one used in Veins), does broadcast.
So basically, whatever you send via a 802.11p network interface, it will always be broadcasted, however you can make-up some type of p2p by doing "source-destination checking" from the frames.
You can extend the WaveShortMessage to contain Source and Destination fields specific for your application, and then perform checks if the destination is receiving from the intended sender.
Lets say we have two nodes nodeSender and nodeReceiver who want to communicate.
nodeSender would need to include its own identifier (name, ID etc) in the message:
msgToSend->setSourceAddress("nodeSender")
nodeReceiver would need to check if the message it "hears" is from the intended sender. Because in reality it will be hearing from multiple senders due to the broadcast nature of 80211p
if(receivedMsg->getSourceAddress() == 'nodeSender')
{
/* this is the message which I need */
else
{
/* do nothing with the message from other senders */
}
You can use vehicles SUMO id as their unique identifier for the addresses. You can obtain that by querying the TraCIMobility module:
cModule *tmpMobility = getParentModule()->getSubmodule("veinsmobility");
mobility = dynamic_cast<Veins::TraCIMobility*>(tmpMobility);
ASSERT(mobility);
mySumoID = mobility->getExternalId();

Joining same room more then once and clients in a room

I'm trying to figure out what happens if the clients emits to join the same room more then once, To test and find answer on this I wanted initially to find out how many clients room has after same clients send more then one emit for joining the room, but Rooms chapter in wiki https://github.com/Automattic/socket.io/wiki/Rooms is outdated. When I try to use "io.sockets.clients('room')" I get error "Object # has no method 'clients'".
So I got two questions:
1. what happens if client tries to join same room more then once? Will he get emits for that room for each time he has tried to join?
2. How can I find out which clients are in a room?
Im using socket.io v1.0.2
I got an answer on this question at socket.io github.
As per this line of code, the socket will receive emits only once. The socket is added to a room only once, and if another attempt is made for the same socket to join the room, this attempt will be ignored.
There is currently no public API for getting the clients, and there is some discussion ongoing in #1428. If you really need to get them, for some reason, you can fetch the actual clients from the adapter, assuming you are not using the redis adapter like so:
socket.join('test room');
var clients = io.sockets.adapter.rooms['test room'];
console.log(clients);
for (var clientId in clients) {
console.log(io.sockets.connected[clientId]);
}
Fixed getting clients in a room at socket.io ~1.4.5 like this:
socket.join('test room');
var room = io.sockets.adapter.rooms['test room'];
console.log(room);
for (var socketId in room.sockets) {
console.log(io.sockets.connected[socketId]);
}
Its working fine and does not gives any error,it ignores the second request for joining the room from that socket which is already in the room.
I have actually tried and implemented a solution where
when user click on message notification it joins that specific room from which the notification came and, and when he sends very first message he again join that specific room (It is because I have build a Chat-Directive in AngularJS).
Client Side
1) User Open Notification
Socket.emit('JoinRoomWithThsID', notification.ConversationID);
2) user Sends First Message in that room
Socket.emit('patientChatRoomMessage', adminmessage);

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