HOWTOs

Main Page - Roadmap - Summer Projects - Project Ideas - Developer FAQ - Tools - Related Projects

HOWTOs - Installation - Troubleshooting - User FAQ - Samples - Models - Education - Contributed Code - Papers

How to do Various Interesting Things with ns-3

System-Related Items

• HOWTO make ns-3 interact with the real world
• HOWTO use VirtualBox to run simulations on Windows machines
• HOWTO get ns-3 running on Mac OS X (10.5.2 Intel)
• HOWTO get ns-3 running on Mac OS X (10.6.2 Intel)
• HOWTO Use Linux Containers to set up virtual networks
• HOWTO use VMware to set up virtual networks (Windows)
• HOWTO use ns-3 scripts to drive real hardware (experimental)
• HOWTO use ns-3 directly on the ORBIT testbed hardware
• HOWTO use ns-3 in the ORBIT testbed environment
• HOWTO use ns-3 directly on the CMU wireless emulator
• HOWTO use ns-3 with other libraries
• HOWTO use ns-3 on Windows with Visual Studio 2010
• HOWTO use ns-3 with BonnMotion mobility generator and analysis tool

Programming-Related Items

• HOWTO make and use a new application
• HOWTO extract the IP src/dst address from a packet
• HOWTO create a new type of protocol header or trailer
• HOWTO use null callbacks
• HOWTO create a new OSI layer 1 + 2 implementation
• HOWTO create a traffic generator
• HOWTO determine the path of an attribute or trace source
• HOWTO use the ConfigStore
• HOWTO determine all the available Values
• HOWTO work with ns-3 packet traces
• HOWTO create a new module in ns-3
• HOWTO enable a subset of ns-3's modules
• HOWTO enable/disable examples and tests in ns-3
• HOWTO resolve circular references in ns-3 memory disposal

IDE Integration

• HOWTO configure Eclipse with ns-3
• HOWTO configure NetBeans with ns-3
• HOWTO configure QtCreator with ns-3

Debugging-Related Items

• HOWTO use NS_LOG to find a problem
• HOWTO understand and find cause of terminated with signal errors
• HOWTO debug smart pointers and packet pointers
• HOWTO use Valgrind to debug memory problems
• HOWTO resolve circular references in ns-3 memory disposal
• HOWTO build old versions of ns-3 on newer compilers
• HOWTO use oprofile to profile your ns-3 program

Mercurial-Related Items

• HOWTO use Mercurial Queues to manage your ns-3 patches

Data Analysis-Related Items

• HOWTO get ns-3 data into SciPy
• HOWTO get ns-3 data into ROOT
• HOWTO get ns-3 data into SciLab
• HOWTO get ns-3 data into Octave
• HOWTO get ns-3 to detect steady-state times in your data

Code Review-Related Items

• HOWTO use the coding style tool
• HOWTO control Rietveld patch generation

WiFi Model-Related Items

• HOWTO add basic rates to 802.11

---

Craigdo 16:34, 22 April 2010 (UTC)