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This page summarizes the ongoing release planning for ns-3.11.

Proposed Release Schedule

ns-3.11 should be released in the April 2011 timeframe.

Possible work for ns-3.11

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
• patch for bug 555-- DCF immediate access http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=555
  • needs further testing and verification

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
• 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