Ns-3.25

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This page summarizes the release planning for ns-3.25 (January 2016). The ns-3 release process is listed here and here.

Release goals

New features will be driven by contributions.

Already added

In progress

Please visit Ns-3.25#Feature_and_patch_review_status the section below on items that are presently in work.

In addition, the following developers have announced intentions to work on these topics for ns-3.25:

  • Tom Henderson is working on a Spectrum implementation of the ns-3 Wifi physical layer
  • Chip Webb is working on improving support for Ethernet (full duplex links, switches and

mixed L2/L3 networks) and on adding support for generating pcap trace files with nanosecond resolution timestamps

  • Natale Patriciello and Stefano Avallone are working on a priority queueing layer and flow control in the IP stack
  • Natale Patriciello would like to merge TCP BIC and CUBIC implementations
  • Sebastien Deronne and other Wi-Fi developers are working on:
    • 802.11b short PLCP support
    • HT/VHT Minstrel
    • HT/VHT Ideal RAA
    • 802.11 PCF
    • 802.11n/ac PHY layer improvement + initial MIMO support
    • 802.11 frame sync (PLCP signal detection) model
  • GSOC maintainers would like to merge the code developed on the following three projects:
    • LTE carrier aggregation
    • MPTCP
    • 802.15.4 Phy and MAC protocols

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Release and development schedule

The release is planned for late January with a code freeze in mid January. More specific dates to be provided later.

Feature and patch review status

A current proposal discussed on ns-developers list is to use the bug tracker to identify and status items being actively worked. We'll post a URL here at a future date once that proposal has been settled.

Presently, one new feature is in 'last call' state, regarding TCP refactoring:

https://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2188

Packaging

To be determined.

Release platforms

To be determined.

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