FlowMonitor module

[Lakshmi Krishnaswamy]

Hi all,

Hope you are doing good. I have some trouble understanding some aspects of FlowMonitor module and would greatly appreciate any feedback and guidance on the same!!

I am running simulation using a data center network setup. I am using the FlowMonitor module to capture flow statistics. Do the values and statistics given by FlowMonitor take into account the delays due to head of line queue blocking as well ? Meaning to ask, the definition for timeLastRxPacket and timeFirstTxPacket are as follows : 

timeLastRxPacket Contains the absolute time when the last packet in the flow was received, i.e. the time when the flow reception ends; 

timeFirstTxPacket Contains the absolute time when the first packet in the flow was transmitted, i.e. the time when the flow transmission starts; 

do the account for the TCP connection establishment as well ?

Sorry if it is a very simple aspect, I did try reading the documentation for flowmonitor and it is very well explained but I'm still unable to resolve the above doubt that I have. Any help or even direction to some other documentation would be greatly helpful to me!!