generate a unique ID

Hello everyone,

I have a function to generate packets (randomly) , and I want to affect to every generated packet a unique ID (an integer for example).

How can I do this in the simplest way ? Because I don't want to complicate more my simulator.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

[GT]

This has already been asked:

https://nl.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/240447-using-java-uuid-in-matlab#answer_191523

temp =  java.util.UUID.randomUUID;
myuuid = temp.toString;
disp(myuuid)

Answer 2

[Andrei Veldman]

...or, using pure Matlab:

[~,guid] = fileparts(tempname)

guid = 'tp36f88b8b_87c7_4f81_9bb4_81cd95f8a15d'