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This is the wiki page for the ns-3 training sessions to be held on 17-18 June, 2019 in Florence. For a list of all past training sessions, see Training.

Agenda

Training will be held from 09:00-18:00. Please plan to arrive 15-30 minutes beforehand so we may start at 09:00. Catered lunch will be at 12:30, and coffee at 10:30 and 16:00.

Slides and labs will be posted here as they become available.

Monday

Monday training will be divided into four sessions that will cover the basics of ns-3, setting the stage for some more detailed coverage of specific models in the following day.

Session 1 slides: pdf,pptx

Session 2 slides: pdf,pptx

Session 3 slides: pdf,pptx

Queue experiment: exercise,solution

Tuesday

Session 1: TCP

Survey the available TCP models for ns-3 and walk through an example program that examines TCP performance over a link with variable bandwidth, delay, and packet error rate. Show

Session 1 slides: pdf,pptx

Bake/DCE slides:

See below for previous ns-3 training video on DCE by a DCE maintainer.

Session 2: Wi-Fi (S. Deronne)

Slides: pdf

Session 3: LTE (Z. Ali)

Zoraze Ali will lead an introduction of the LTE module by walking through the execution and trace output of several LTE example programs (see handout below).

Slides: pdf

Handout: LTE hands-on tutorial

Session 4: Sensor networks (T. Pecorella and D. Magrin)

Tommaso Pecorella and Davide Magrin will introduce the sensor network-related models available for ns-3.

• LR WPAN (status, extensions)
• 6LoWPAN (status, extensions)
• RPL (status, planning)
• IPv6 for IoT
• LoRaWAN https://github.com/signetlabdei/lorawan

Slides: To be provided.

Software

More detailed information is available in this document, but in summary, to obtain and build the training code:

 $ git clone -b training https://gitlab.com/tomhenderson/ns-3-allinone.git
 $ cd ns-3-allinone
 $ ./download.py -b training
 $ ./build.py -- --enable-examples --enable-tests
 $ cd ns-3-dev

The arguments passed to ./build.py (--enable-examples --enable-tests) are separated by two dash characters '--'; this ensures that those options are passed on to the Waf build system.

After the above, you should have a working ns-3 installation (debug build) that is in sync with a very recent changeset of ns-3-dev. You can check it by running some of the tutorial programs:

 $ ./waf --run first

To update the code at a future date, you can perform a 'git pull' while in ns-3-dev.

Other utilities needed

We will be using gnuplot and matplotlib in some scripts.

Registration

Registration must be made at this site: https://washington.irisregistration.com/Form/NS-3

Local Information

Local information is available on this page: https://www.nsnam.org/research/wns3/wns3-2019/local-information/

Supplementary training videos

Please see the older training videos linked from this page.

• 2016 session on large-scale, distributed simulations with ns-3 (instructor: Peter Barnes); (slides, video)
• 2014 ns-3 tracing tutorial from Walid Younes: (slides, video)
• 2015 presentation on DCE (instructor: Hajime Tazaki): (slides, video)