The ns-3 network simulator

On behalf of the ns-3 project and mentoring team, we’d like to congratulate our two students, Junling Bu and Budiarto Herman, for a job well done this year with Google Summer of Code (GSoC). Junling Bu’s project focused on MAC enhancements to WiFi to support vehicular networking scenarios. Among the several standards for Vehicular Ad-Hoc […]

Dizhi Zhou has been selected to participate in the 2013 European Space Agency Summer of Code in Space (SOCIS). A student at the University of New Brunswick, Dizhi also successfully completed an ns-3 project on LTE MAC scheduling in the 2012 Google Summer of Code. Dizhi’s project will focus on an implementation of the DTN [...]

Version 1.1 of the Direct Code Execution (DCE) environment was released on September 1. Compatible with the ns-3.18 release, DCE 1.1 adds a few new features: * Aspect-based tracing * LTE (LteUeNetDevice) Support with multipath TCP * numerous bug fixes

The ns-3.18 release has now been posted at http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.18.tar.bz2. This release features the latest LTE module code from the LENA project, including improved support for UE measurements, and enhancements to the ... [More] buildings module to enable the use of any mobility model. IEEE 802.11n features have been added to the WiFi module; it is possible to [...] [Less]

We’re pleased to announce that Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has joined the NS-3 Consortium as its first regular Consortium Member. LLNL is actively working on improving the ns-3 core, particularly for parallel simulations, and has published on this work in recent SIMUTools and WNS3 conferences.

ns-3 has been accepted to the 2013 edition of the European Space Agency Summer of Code in Space (SOCIS) program. The program is inspired by the Google Summer of Code program, but with a space-based theme. Student applications are due on August 4, 2013. Please visit the ns-3 project ideas page.

We’re pleased to announce that the Georgia Institute of Technology has joined the NS-3 Consortium as an Executive Member. Dr. George Riley, one of the founders of the open source project, has joined the Steering Committee. Georgia Tech has actively ... [More] supported ns-3 since the project’s inception in many ways, including financial support, project infrastructure, and [...] [Less]

The ns-3 project and Google Summer of Code today accepted the applications of students Junling Bu and Budiarto Herman to participate in the 2013 Google Summer of Code. Junling Bu, with his proposal titled “Implementation of WAVE 1609.4/802.11p”, will ... [More] be mentored by Guillaume Rémy. WAVE is the IEEE standard for communications in vehicular ad-hoc networks [...] [Less]

The ns-3.17 release has now been posted at http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.17.tar.bz2 This release adds several new models for LTE, TCP, and network emulation, and also features the initial release of the Direct Code Execution environment, enabled by the Bake software integration tool. More details are available here.

Our project was pleased to learn today that we will be one of 177 organizations participating in the 2013 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 [...]