This page recognizes those individuals and organizations who have provided services or funding to support the open source project.

Organizations who wish to support ns-3 are encouraged to join the ns-3 Consortium.

Federal funding

ns-3 received community infrastructure development awards from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). Several collaborative awards were granted, but the lead awards were made to the University of Washington:

• CNS-0551686: CRI: Developing the Next Generation Open Source Network Simulator ns-3 (2006-10),
• CNS-0958139: CI-ADDO-EN: Frameworks for ns-3 (2010-15), and
• CNS-2016379: CCRI: ENS: Collaborative Research: ns-3 Network Simulation for Next-Generation Wireless.

In addition, the ns-3 development at Inria Sophia Antipolis was funded by the French government.

Programs and services

• Git hosting is provided by the Open Source Program at GitLab.com.

• Website hosting is provided by Georgia Tech and the University of Washington.

• The Free/Open Source Project of MacStadium provides a Mac for regression testing.

• GlobalSign provides the project with SSL certificates.

• USC ISI and Google Forums provide the mailing lists.

• Google Summer of Code provides funding stipends to participating organizations.

Annual meeting hosts

Since 2013, the following organizations have hosted and supported the project’s annual meeting:

• 2013: Inria Sophia Antipolis
• 2014: Georgia Tech
• 2015: CTTC
• 2016: University of Washington
• 2017: INESC TEC
• 2018: NITK Surathkal
• 2019: DINFO, Firenze University
• 2020-2022: (online Zoom meeting)

Google Summer of Code mentors

Many Google Summer of Code mentors have voluntarily donated their mentoring stipends to the project. Prior to 2014, this was done on a voluntary basis, and since 2014, the project has requested mentors to donate their stipends.

2013 and earlier

• CTTC mentoring team (Nicola Baldo, Marco Miozzo) for GSoC 2012
• CTTC mentoring team (Nicola Baldo, Marco Miozzo, Manuel Requena, and Jaime Ferragut) for GSoC 2013
• Daniel Camara
• Joe Kopena
• Tommaso Pecorella
• Josh Pelkey
• Guillaume Rémy

2014

• Nicola Baldo
• Marco Miozzo
• Tom Henderson
• Tommaso Pecorella
• Dave Taht

2015

• Nicola Baldo
• Marco Miozzo
• Tom Henderson
• Vedran Miletic
• Tommaso Pecorolla
• Peter Barnes

2017

• Tom Henderson
• Tommaso Pecorella
• Biljana Bojovic
• Mohit Tahiliani
• Stefano Avallone

2018

• Tom Henderson
• Tommaso Pecorella
• Mohit Tahiliani
• Dizhi Zhou
• Matthieu Coudron

2019

• Tom Henderson
• Tommaso Pecorella
• Mohit Tahiliani
• Abhijith Anilkumar
• Ankit Deepak
• Vivek Jain
• Natale Patriciello