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2. Software Architecture

This chapter provides an introductory software architectural overview of ns-3, including use cases, architecture for reusable components, design for configuration, memory management policy, and strategy for integrating outside and legacy code.

Subsections

2.1 Basics
2.2 Use cases
2.3 Class and object design
- 2.3.1 Component system
  - 2.3.1.1 Query interface example
- 2.3.2 Object creation
2.4 Memory Management
- 2.4.1 Reference counting smart pointer
2.5 Configuration
- 2.5.1 Stock topology code
- 2.5.2 Default values and command line arguments
2.6 Tracing
2.7 Scaling
2.8 Emulation
2.9 Scripting

Tom Henderson 2007-06-17