The ns-3 network simulator

ns-3.15 was released on August 29, 2012. ns-3.15 is mainly a maintenance release. The following changes have been made since ns-3.14: The random variable implementation has been refactored to allow users to control the mapping of underlying ... [More] pseudo-random sequences, or streams, to random variable objects. This will allow users better control over keeping some aspects [...] [Less]

ns-3.14 was released on June 5, 2012. A significant amount of work went into the ns-3.14 release on several fronts: The transport protocol implementations for IP have been refactored so that they can support IPv4 and IPv6 connections The latest release of the LENA project has been incorporated. The LTE module has been reworked, with [...]

The Google Summer of Code 2012 results are out, and we’re happy to announce that we have the following three students who will be working with us over the summer: Dizhi Zhou, mentored by Nicola Baldo, working on “LTE Scheduling with the FemtoForum MAC Scheduler API”. Mudit Raj Gupta, mentored by Tommaso Pecorella, working on [...]

The project is excited to have been selected to participate in the 2012 edition of the Google Summer of Code. We are looking forward to mentoring a few students on projects that will develop code for the simulator. Between now and April 6, interested students are encouraged to develop project proposals for submission to Google. [...]

The preliminary program for WNS3 2012 is now available. The event is scheduled to happen on the 23rd of March, at Sirmione, Italy. We have an exciting lineup of presentations for the day, along with a shared poster/demo session with the Omnet++ community. We are happy to announce that Tom Henderson and Mathieu Lacage will [...]

This is a reminder that the Workshop on ns-3 will be held on March 23, 2012 in Desenzano del Garda, Italy. A single day developers’ meeting follows the workshop. The list of papers accepted for the presentation at the workshop can be found here. Registration is open here. Registration as a member is based on [...]

ns-3.13 is a maintenance-oriented release with an upgrade to the waf build system. The first component from the 2011 ns-3 Summer of Code program, an IPv6 address generator, is included in this release. The spectrum module and TCP models also underwent a significant amount of work during this release cycle, and bug fixes and a [...]

The Workshop on ns-3 (WNS3) is a one day workshop held in conjunction with the fifth International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools 2012). The workshop will be held on March 23, 2012, in Sirmione, Italy. The objective of the ... [More] workshop is to gather ns-3 users and developers, together with networking simulation practitioners and [...] [Less]

The 2011 ns-3 Summer of Code (NSoC) has come to an end, with all three of our students having produced code that are being reviewed for merge. We would like to thank everyone from the ns-3 team who contributed project ideas, helped us organise the programme, and support the students with feedback. We asked mentors [...]