wns::scheduler::PowerCapabilities
Strategy::getPowerCapabilities(const UserID user) const
{
    /* This method changes the state "schedulerState->powerCapabilities".
       This is good and ok if all users are the same (default of all systems),
       but if they are different (future), APC must call this function anytime.
    */
    switch (schedulerState->powerControlType)
    {
        case PowerControlDLMaster:
        {
            schedulerState->powerCapabilities = 
                colleagues.registry->getPowerCapabilities(); 
            break;
        }
        case PowerControlULMaster:
        {
            // peer unknown. Assume peer=UT.
            if (!user.isValid()) 
            { 
                MESSAGE_SINGLE(NORMAL, logger, "getPowerCapabilities(NULL): asking registry...");
                schedulerState->powerCapabilities = colleagues.registry->getPowerCapabilities(user); 

                MESSAGE_SINGLE(NORMAL, logger, "getPowerCapabilities(NULL): nominal="
                    << schedulerState->powerCapabilities.nominalPerSubband);

                return schedulerState->powerCapabilities;
            }
            schedulerState->powerCapabilities = colleagues.registry->getPowerCapabilities(user); 
            break;
        }
        case PowerControlULSlave:
        {
            if (schedulerState->defaultTxPower!=wns::Power()) 
            {
                // don't use powerCapabilities but masterBurst instead
                assure(schedulerState->defaultTxPower!=wns::Power(),"undefined defaultTxPower");
                schedulerState->powerCapabilities.nominalPerSubband = schedulerState->defaultTxPower;
                schedulerState->powerCapabilities.maxPerSubband = schedulerState->defaultTxPower;
                // limit not used for slave
                schedulerState->powerCapabilities.maxOverall = schedulerState->defaultTxPower * 1000.0; 
            } 
            // not given (by masterBurst) because there is an InputSchedulingMap (new method)
            else 
            { 
                assure(schedulerState->currentState->strategyInput->inputSchedulingMap != wns::scheduler::SchedulingMapPtr(), 
                    "need inputSchedulingMap with txPower information");

            // the power settings in inputSchedulingMap can be overwritten
            // if APC strategy is changed to use nominal power. Therefore we need these values:
            schedulerState->powerCapabilities = colleagues.registry->getPowerCapabilities(); 
            }
            break;
        }
        default:
        {
            throw wns::Exception("invalid powerControlType");
        }
    } // switch(powerControlType)
    if (user.isValid()) 
    {
        MESSAGE_SINGLE(NORMAL, logger, "getPowerCapabilities("
            << user.getName() << "): nominal="
            << schedulerState->powerCapabilities.nominalPerSubband);

    } 
    else 
    {
        MESSAGE_SINGLE(NORMAL, logger, "getPowerCapabilities(NULL): nominal="
            << schedulerState->powerCapabilities.nominalPerSubband);
    }
    assure(schedulerState->powerCapabilities.nominalPerSubband != wns::Power(),
        "undefined power nominalPerSubband="<<schedulerState->powerCapabilities.nominalPerSubband);

    return schedulerState->powerCapabilities;
}
std::priority_queue<ProportionalFair::UserPreference>
ProportionalFair::calculateUserPreferences(UserSet activeUsers, bool txStrategy) const
{
    std::map<UserID, ChannelQualityOnOneSubChannel> sinrs;

    // preference for every user in a priority queue which automatically sorts
    std::priority_queue<UserPreference> preferences;
    assure(preferences.size()==0, "preferences.size() must be 0");

    for ( UserSet::const_iterator iter = activeUsers.begin();
          iter != activeUsers.end(); ++iter)
    {
        UserID user = *iter;
        assure(user.isValid(), "No valid user");

        //determines the users SINRs depending on the tx/Rx mode of the strategy
        if (txStrategy)
        {
            sinrs[user] = colleagues.registry->estimateTxSINRAt(user);
        }
        else
        {
            sinrs[user] = colleagues.registry->estimateRxSINROf(user);
        }

        // calculate PhyModeRate for available users
        wns::Ratio sinr(sinrs[user].carrier / sinrs[user].interference);
        wns::service::phy::phymode::PhyModeInterfacePtr phyMode = colleagues.registry->getPhyModeMapper()->getBestPhyMode(sinr);
        assure(phyMode->isValid(),"invalid PhyMode");

        // calculate userRate, which is the maximum possible data rate
        // for one subChannel for the best PhyMode available here
        float phyModeRate = phyMode->getDataRate(); // rate [b/s] of one subChannel
        float referenceRate;
        float pastDataRate = 1.0;

        // get the past data rate for this user:
        // iterate over the global past data rates map of all users and
        // find the past data rate for this user
        // there is exactly one pastDataRate value per userID
        int weight = colleagues.registry->getTotalNumberOfUsers(user);
        for (std::map<UserID, float>::const_iterator iter = pastDataRates.begin();
             iter != pastDataRates.end(); ++iter)
        {
            if (iter->first/*userID*/ == user)
            {
                float dataRate = iter->second;
                // a RN must get a better share of the bandwidth
                // here: proportional to its number of users:
                assure(weight>0, "numberOfUsers(" <<user.getName()<<")=" << weight);
                dataRate /= static_cast<float>(weight);
                // dataRate now has the meaning of a weight.
                pastDataRate = dataRate;
            }
        } // for all userIDs in pastDataRates

        if (pastDataRate < 0.01)
            pastDataRate = 0.01;

        // preference is achievable current user rate divided by a history
        // factor that takes the past throughput of this user into account

        assure(maxRateOfSubchannel>0.0, "unknown maxRateOfSubchannel");

        // goal is either rate (true) or resource (false) fairness
        if (rateFairness == true)
        {
            referenceRate = maxRateOfSubchannel;
        }
        else
        {
            referenceRate = phyModeRate;
        }

        // maxRateOfSubchannel is constant, with range [0..1][bit/s]
        float resultMaxThroughput = referenceRate / maxRateOfSubchannel;
        float resultPropFair      = referenceRate / pastDataRate; // can be any range
        if (scalingBetweenMaxTPandPFair <= 0.5) {
            // variate the preference for each user, so that they differ a little bit (1%)
            // and the automatic sorting does not always give the same order
            // (would be a problem for identical preference weights).
            resultMaxThroughput *=  (1 + 0.01*(*preferenceVariationDistribution)());
        }
        float UserPref =
            (1.0-scalingBetweenMaxTPandPFair) * resultMaxThroughput
            +scalingBetweenMaxTPandPFair  * resultPropFair;

        MESSAGE_SINGLE(NORMAL, logger, "getPreference("<<user.getName()<<"): weight=" << weight << ", pastDataRate= "<<pastDataRate<<" bit/s, UserPreference= "<<UserPref<<" (resultMaxThroughput="<<resultMaxThroughput<<",resultProportionalFair="<<resultPropFair<<")");

        // calculate preferences for users and order them
        preferences.push(UserPreference(UserPref, user));
    }
    return preferences;
}