Table of Contents

• 1.   Introduction
• 1.1 News and Highlights
• 1.2 Contributions and Collaborations
• 1.3 Statistics


• 2.   ns-3 Development
• 2.1 Release Schedule
• 2.2 Technical Progress
• 2.3 Actions and Open Issues


• 3.   ns-2 Maintenance
• 3.1 Release Schedule
• 3.2 Technical Progress
• 3.3 Actions and Open Issues

1.   Introduction

This monthly report summarizes the ns-3 project, a collaborative project funded under the following grants:

• NSF CNS-0551686 (University of Washington);   PIs: Tom Henderson and Sumit Roy
• NSF CNS-0551378 (Georgia Institute of Technology);   PI: George Riley
• NSF CNS-0551706 (International Computer Science Institute);  PI: Sally Floyd

1.1 News and Highlights

• The project generated a new maintenance release of ns-2, nam-1, otcl, and tclcl packages, on September 26: http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-users/2006-September/057343.html
• This project announced a release of the project infrastructure to the ns-users and ns-developers mailing list on September 28: http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-users/2006-September/057376.html

1.2 Contributions and Collaborations

We regularly collaborate with the Planete research group at INRIA Sophia Antipolis.

• Iyappan Ramachandran joined the ns-2 developers with commit access, to assist in preparing the release.

1.3 Statistics

• There were ~1000 downloads of the new ns-2.30 and ns-allinone-2.30 packages from Sourceforge between Sept. 26 and Sept. 30.
• There were 283 posts to the ns-users mailing list and 35 posts to the ns-developers mailing list in the past month.
• There are 19 open bugs on the ns-2 tracker

2.   ns-3 Development

2.1 Release Schedule

The project is hoping to have a very early alpha release by January 2007.

2.2 Technical Progress

The main development milestones were basic agreement between Tom Henderson, Mathieu Lacage, and George Riley on the core simulation code framework, the scheduler, and the Packet API and documentation. As mentioned above, the preparation of the project infrastructure consumed a large amount of time this month.

2.3 Actions and Open Issues

3.   ns-2 Maintenance

The project is maintaining ns-2, nam-1, otcl, and tclcl while ns-3 is being developed.

• ns-2
• nam-1
• otcl and tclcl

3.1 Release Schedule

As reported above, the project made a release of ns-2 (ns-2.30) and associated packages (nam-1, otcl, and tclcl) on Sept. 26.

New features of ns-2.30 (see the ns-2 changelog):

• SCTP code update
• Major XCP code cleanup
• TFRC updates
• Adding DelayBox and PackMimeHTTP models

Remaining major issues:

• Certain validation tests are failing on several platforms
• nam-1 does not build on 64-bit machines
• nam-1 relicensing

We plan to make quarterly maintenance releases starting in January 2007 or shortly thereafter.

3.2 Technical Progress

• None to report

3.3 Actions and Open Issues

• ns-2 bugs are logged in a Sourceforge tracker.
• ns-2 patches (waiting for review) are logged in this patch tracker
• ns-2 tasks (TODO list) are logged in this task tracker
• nam-1 tasks (TODO list) are logged in this task tracker

The below are the major action items and open issues.

relicense nam-1

Owner: Tom H. (with support from John H.)

Description: Align all nam licenses to be GPL-compatible.

Status: No change since last month.

nam-1 on 64-bit platforms

Owner: None.

Description: nam-1 won't build on 64-bit machines

Status: No change since last month.