The ns-3 network simulator

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Project Summary

ns-3 is a discrete-event network simulator for Internet systems, targeted primarily for research and educational use. ns-3 is free software, licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license, and is publicly available for research, development, and use.

ns-3 is intended as an eventual replacement for the popular ns-2 simulator. The project acronym “nsnam” derives historically from the concatenation of ns (network simulator) and nam (network animator).

In a Nutshell, The ns-3 network simulator...

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has had 13,897 commits made by 318 contributors
representing 998,097 lines of code
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is mostly written in Python
with an average number of source code comments
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by nobody
with stable Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 282 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in August, 2006
ending with its most recent commit about 6 years ago

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http://code.nsnam.org/ns-3-dev

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Vedran Miletic

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