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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

1. December 21 -- code freeze
2. December 22 -- First release candidate posted
3. 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/)

Merge queue

• DSDV
• UAN framework
• LTE support

Bug list

• 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
  • patch in preparation
• WiMAX bugs (953, 985, 995)
• bug 967-- need ability to insert a shim http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=967
• patch for bug 555-- DCF immediate access http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=555

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

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