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      1 /*
      2  * Copyright (C) 2016 The Android Open Source Project
      3  *
      4  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
      5  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
      6  * You may obtain a copy of the License at
      7  *
      8  *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
      9  *
     10  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
     11  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
     12  * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
     13  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
     14  * limitations under the License.
     15  */
     16 
     17 #ifndef AP_HUB_SYNC_H__
     18 #define AP_HUB_SYNC_H__
     19 
     20 #include <stdio.h>
     21 #include <stdint.h>
     22 #include <stdbool.h>
     23 
     24 #ifdef __cplusplus
     25 extern "C" {
     26 #endif
     27 
     28 /*
     29  * This implements an AP-HUB time sync algorithm that is expected to improve time sync accuracy by
     30  * avoiding communication latency jitter.
     31  *
     32  * It uses max of (apTime - hubTime) in a window, which is more consistent than average, to
     33  * establish mapping between ap timestamp and hub stamp. Additional low pass filtering is added
     34  * to further lowering jitter (it is not expected for two clocks to drift much in short time).
     35  *
     36  * Max is slightly anti-intuitive here because difference is defined as apTime - hubTime. Max of
     37  * that is equivalent to min of hubTime - apTime, which corresponds to a packet that get delayed
     38  * by system scheduling minimally (closer to the more consistent hardware related latency).
     39  */
     40 
     41 struct ApHubSync {
     42     uint64_t lastTs;           // AP time of previous data point, used for control expiration
     43     int64_t deltaEstimation;   // the estimated delta between two clocks, filtered.
     44 
     45     int64_t windowMax;         // track the maximum timestamp difference in a window
     46     uint64_t windowTimeout;    // track window expiration time
     47     uint8_t state;             // internal state of the sync
     48 };
     49 
     50 // reset data structure
     51 void apHubSyncReset(struct ApHubSync* sync);
     52 
     53 // add a data point (a pair of apTime and the corresponding hub time).
     54 void apHubSyncAddDelta(struct ApHubSync* sync, uint64_t apTime, uint64_t hubTime);
     55 
     56 // get the estimation of time delta
     57 int64_t apHubSyncGetDelta(struct ApHubSync* sync, uint64_t hubTime);
     58 
     59 #ifdef __cplusplus
     60 }
     61 #endif
     62 
     63 #endif  // AP_HUB_SYNC_H__
     64