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This page summarizes the release planning for ns-3.28. The ns-3 release process is listed here and here.

Release status

ns-3.28 is planned for release in early March.

• Release candidate 2: https://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.28.rc2.tar.bz2
  • Waiting for decision on whether to fix bug 2861 (LTE uplink CA) or not
  • Documentation to be updated and finalized

Between now and then, we will try to merge things that are in LAST_CALL status or close to it.

Current activity

Wifi

• Scanning support (Tom Henderson)
  • https://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2399

• Improve block ack robustness (Tom Henderson and Sebastien Deronne)
  • https://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2470

• PCF support (Sebastien Deronne)
  • Posted for review here, but likely held until after the release.

Python bindings

Further automate the generation of bindings using CastXML, as discussed here: https://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2451#c22

TCP

Bug Fixes:

• Being tested on the 'tcp-corrections' branch here: https://github.com/natale-p/ns-3-dev-git/tree/tcp-corrections

Traffic control

Stefano Avallone mentioned the following plans.

• introduce other qdiscs: fifo, prio and token bucket (from GSoC)

• help Pasquale and Tommaso to merge the netmap netdevice (SOCIS)

• if time permits, implement the Diffserv to IEEE 802.11 mapping as defined by draft-ietf-tsvwg-ieee-802-11-09

• review and merge a few pending code reviews which implement other qdiscs (REM, BLUE, PI, PI2) and add ECN support to CoDel and PIE

UAN

• Bug 2413 - Changes in the UAN module to support NS-3 IP stack (patch submitted, pending final review)

• Bug 2805 - RFC6775-Neighbor Discovery Optimization for IPv6 (waiting for Tommaso recommendations)