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The Mesh NetDevice based on 802.11s was added in ns-3.6. An overview presentation by Kirill Andreev was published at the wns-3 workshop in 2009: http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/Wns3-2009.
An overview paper is available at: https://www.nsnam.org/workshops/wns3-2010/dot11s.pdf.
As of ns-3.23 release, the model has been slightly updated to the 802.11s-2012 standard with regard to packet formats.