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Main Page - Roadmap - Summer Projects - Project Ideas - Developer FAQ - Tools - Related Projects
HOWTOs - Installation - Troubleshooting - User FAQ - Samples - Models - Education - Contributed Code - Papers
This wiki complements the ns-3 main web site. Account Policy: Due to spam problems, we have disabled the ability to create new accounts and to edit/move pages without moderator approval; our experience on the ns-2 wiki with Mediawiki captchas has been ineffective. If you would like to edit this wiki, please email [1] with your username and we will enable it for write privileges. Note: ns-2 has a separate wiki, at http://nsnam.isi.edu/nsnam
Upcoming Releases
- ns-3.17 is scheduled for mid-April, 2013.
Upcoming Events
A full week of ns-3 activities is planned for the south of France, 4-8 March 2013.
- 4 March 2013, NS-3 Consortium annual meeting at INRIA. This is a free event with plenary talks and tutorials for newcomers and advanced users.
- 5 March 2013, WNS3-2013: The fifth annual Workshop on ns-3, Cannes, France. Registration for this event is organized by ICST as part of SIMUTools 2013, and is held in Cannes, France.
- 6-8 March 2013, ns-3 developers meeting will be held at INRIA and will be a free, open meeting.
A large amount of logistic information is provided here. Please note that you must separately register for each event, as can be found on the links above.
Recent Events
- ns-3.16 was released on 21 December 2012.
- ns-3 was one of the 180 projects selected for the 2012 edition of Google Summer of Code. Three students have recently completed their projects. Our 2012 GSoC page: 2012 GSOC accepted projects
Current ns-3-dev Build and Test Results
We use the Jenkins continuous integration (CI) tool to regularly test our development tree.
Next Level
We have created the following pages to allow ns-3 users to contribute various information:
- Roadmap - Plans for future releases, and what developers are working on
- Current Development - What people are working on for ns-3
- Project Ideas - Suggested projects at different degrees of difficulty
- Developer FAQ - Answers to frequently asked questions for ns-3 developers
- Tools - Useful tools
- Education - Links to sites containing information about use of ns-3 in education
- Installation - Installation tips and prerequisites
- User FAQ - Answers to frequently asked questions for ns-3 users
- HOWTOs - HOWTOs guides for various simulation activities
- Samples - Code samples and examples (wiki category)
- Models - Information about various models (wiki category)
- Troubleshooting - Tips for working around compilation, etc. problems
- Contributed Code - Links to third-party ns-3 software contributions
- Papers - Research papers about ns-3 or using ns-3