The ns-3 network simulator

We would like to announce the general availability of the ns-3 App Store. The app store will organize information about the availability of extensions to the main ns-3 releases, starting with the current ns-3.29 release. The main page has more information about getting started with the app store. The app store implementation is largely due […]

We were pleased to learn today that ns-3 has been selected as a mentoring organization for Google Code-In (GCI) 2018. This is our project’s first time with this programming contest. Mohit Tahiliani will lead a team of mentors designing and evaluating ... [More] programming tasks relating to coding, documentation, training, outreach, research, quality assurance, and design. More […] [Less]

This ns-3 release is dedicated to the memory of project co-founder George Riley. Contributions from thirty-two authors make up the ns-3.29 release, published on 4 September 2018 and features the following additions. An HTTP model based on a 3GPP ... [More] reference model for HTTP/1.1 A priority queue disc (PrioQueueDisc) for the traffic control module A model […] [Less]

Google Summer of Code has formally concluded and we are happy to announce that all five of our students have passed and completed part or all of their proposed projects. Once ns-3.29 is released, we will move towards merging or making available their contributions, and in some cases, the students are continuing the project. Below […]

A minor release of ns-3.28, numbered ns-3.28.1 was posted on August 16, 2018, mainly to address some build issues with Fedora 28. The API scanning process has also been further automated. The release is available here.

Over 60 authors, students, and ns-3 maintainers met at NITK Surathkal from June 11-15 for the 10th annual Workshop on ns-3, training sessions, and a brief educational workshop hosted by the workshop general chair, Mohit Tahiliani. The meeting is organized by the ns-3 Consortium, which held its annual plenary meeting on June 14. The Workshop […]

On June 20, 2018, ns-3 project co-founder George Riley passed away from cancer. George was intimately involved in ns-3’s early development, both directly and through his students. As a professor at Georgia Tech, George’s research focused on efficient ... [More] and scalable simulations, and he and his PADS research group became involved with ns-2, developing a patch […] [Less]

ns-3.28 was released on 22 March 2018 and features the following additions. IPv6 support for LTE: LTE UEs can now use IPv6 to send and receive traffic. TCP Pacing and TCP Low Priority (LP): Added TCP-LP congestion control, and added the core features of TCP Pacing. IP support for UAN: The UAN module now supports […]

ns-3 is excited to have been selected to the 2018 edition of Google Summer of Code. This program is a great opportunity for students to learn a bit about software engineering and open source projects, and for our project community to grow. Interested students are encouraged to interact with the project through the main project […]

The Workshop on ns-3 (WNS3) is a one and one-half day workshop to be held on June 13-14, 2018, hosted by the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK) Surathkal, Mangalore, India. The objective of the workshop is to gather ns-3 users and ... [More] developers, together with networking simulation practitioners and users, and developers of other network […] [Less]