Client

Isaia's client implementation for the Advanced Programming Course 2024-2025 at UNITN

Network

The client is built for the drone network. It has to be used as a library in the Network Initializer project and in the Simulation Controller project.

The client implements the functionalities related to the drone network, such as:

• Packet Source Routing
• Packet Handling
• Network Discovery
• Communication with the Simulation Controller

An additional cool feature is the path finding: it is done using the Dijkstra algorithm and the used weights are calculated dynamically based on the Dropped Nacks received by the drones. In this way, each client can estimate the Packet Drop Rate of each drone and use it to calculate the best path.

It also implements a UI, external and indipendent from the SC.

The UI

The UI is implemented using a simple WebServer. The assets for the UI must be inserted in the static/client/frontend folder of Network Initializer.

The Web Server is started by default on localhost:7373 with tiny_http.

Communication between Rust backend and the frontend

• The frontend uses tiny_http defined endpoints to communicate with the backend.
• The backend uses the tungstenite library to communicate with the frontend via WebSockets.

  The WS Server is started on localhost:7374 and the frontend connects to it.