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This page summarizes the ongoing release planning for ns-3.10. Josh Pelkey and Tom Henderson will manage the release.

Proposed Release Schedule

Please test our release candidates on your system, and provide feedback to the developers list.

1. December 23 -- First release candidate posted (feature/API freeze)
2. December 31 -- Second release candidate posted (code freeze)
3. January 3 -- Third release candidate posted (code and documentation freeze)
4. January 5 -- ns-3.10 posted

Already merged

• (bug 852) Initial support for the 802.11g PHY
• Extend MakeEnumChecker()
• Matrix topology example
• bug 978: Consolidate Wi-Fi MAC high functionality
• Pyviz visualizer
• Tcp refactoring
• BulkSend application
• Energy model WiFi additions
• bug 963-- print out routing tables (http://codereview.appspot.com/3613041/)
• DSDV
• UAN framework
• LTE support

• 903/975 Tap bridge closure: http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=903; http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=975
• WiMAX bugs (953, 985, 995)
• Restore -r option to download.py: http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=555
• Config::Connect failure on powerpc: http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1029

Remaining issues

The documentation (manual) needs updating, and a conversion to Sphinx as discussed on the mailing list is pending. This should be done by the RC3 timeframe.

Future work for ns-3.11

These items appear to be slipping to future releases.

New features

• ns-3 click
  • minor block on GPL copyright issue (ported ns-2 code)
• Virtual Access Point (VAP) for WiFi
  • insufficient reviews
• GetRelativeVelocity() for MobilityModel
  • insufficient reviews
• PhySimWifi
  • insufficient reviews
• thread-safe implementation of ScheduleWithContext
• OpenFlow
• simple wireless models
• Jamming model
• MPLS
• TCP Vegas (blocked by lack of progress on TCP congestion control architecture)

Priority bugs

• bug 445 Class name rename Scalar->Dimensionless (issue 445) http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=445
• bug 912-- modeling processing delays http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=912
• bug 938-- missing Doxygen http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=938
• bug 976-- floating point differences in the mobility code http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=976
• patch for bug 555-- DCF immediate access http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=555
  • needs further testing and verification

Feature requests

Not likely for ns-3.10 but will carry forward to ns-3.11.

• make spectrum model compatible with ns-3 WiFi
• ns-2 packet UID feature
• API for TOS bytes (issue 897) may wait for netfilter support
• NetAnim trace hooks for wireless
• Chord/DHT (authors are planning to revise code based on comments)
• app store and build system refactoring
• fragmentation for IPv4: being worked by Vedran Miletic
• TDMA wireless model
  • being worked on by Hemanth Narra