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Date/Time/Venue

Topic: ns-3 development discussions

June 30, 2023 09:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada), 13h00 UTC

Agenda

This day was used to discuss/coordinate next steps with ns-3 development, among the people who are hanging around after the Workshop on ns-3, and anyone who may want to join remotely.

Below is the list of proposed discussion topics.

• GSoC students will introduce themselves and their projects

• Tom Henderson would like to discuss next steps with educational support and usability.

• Reaction to feedback from WNS3 presenters
  • TCP and tutorial troubles
  • Ease of use
  • "Runs slow"
  • Need Wi-Fi that "just works", performs handover
  • Lack of configuration GUI

• Alberto Gallegos proposes discussing these topics
  • Allow to filter log outputs based on the context (node id, mac address or others) #83
  • Default Time display precision (lack of max precision) #771
  • Discussions on code optimizations, sanitizers.
  • C++ namespace usage, are we enforcing any rules? Is the lower case naming convention ok?

• sudo ns3 #923

• Release packaging, bake, ns-3-allinone, Dockerfiles, downstream packaging, ...

• CI and other projects in namespace (modules, bake, etc.)

• Promoting usage of NetSimulyzer/NetAnim

• Website ideas

• Tutorial/training ideas

• General issues with documentation #882

• C++20

• Training: more regular sessions online. Poll ns-3-users for topics of interest, then prepare and perform a tutorial. Avoid waiting for another year.

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