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This page summarizes the ongoing release planning for ns-3.10. We are seeking a volunteer for release manager.

Tentative Release Schedule

1. August 20 -- ns-3.9 posted; ns-3.10 Open phase begins
2. mid-December -- ns-3.10 posted

Already merged

• (bug 852) Initial support for the 802.11g PHY
• Extend MakeEnumChecker()
• Matrix topology example

Pending code reviews

Under current active review:

• bug 978: Consolidate Wi-Fi MAC high functionality
• Tcp refactoring
• LTE support
• ns-3 click
• Virtual Access Point (VAP) for WiFi
• GetRelativeVelocity() for MobilityModel
• PhySimWifi
• BulkSend application
• thread-safe implementation of ScheduleWithContext
• Energy model WiFi additions
• Pyviz visualizer
• UAN framework
• DSDV

These other reviews and repositories are pending:

• OpenFlow
• simple wireless models
• Jamming model
• MPLS
• VANET mobility model
• TCP Vegas (blocked by lack of progress on TCP congestion control architecture)

Our four GSOC projects are also nearly ready for merge.

Priority bugs

• bug 445 Class name rename Scalar->Dimensionless (issue 445) http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=445
• bug 892-- Waypoint Mobility http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=892
• bug 893-- Waypoint Mobility http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=893
• 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 967-- need ability to insert a shim http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=967
• bug 976-- floating point differences in the mobility code http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=976
• 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

Feature requests

• 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 (patch in preparation)
• Chord/DHT (authors are planning to revise code based on comments)
• app store and build system refactoring
• remove ./waf --regression
• fragmentation for IPv4: being worked by Vedran Miletic
• TDMA wireless model