Revision as of 21:33, 19 February 2012

This page summarizes the ongoing release planning for ns-3.14. No release manager has yet been appointed. The ns-3 release process is listed here and here.

Release schedule

The below schedule is based on a scheduled 4 months between releases.

1. Wed Mar 28 -- new feature freeze, enter bug fixing stage
2. Wed Apr 4 -- code freeze on ns-3-dev
3. Wed Apr 11 -- ns-3.14 released

Proposed supported platforms

TBD

Packaging

We will use ns-allinone-3.14.tar.bz2 packaging as before. Other packaging TBD.

new feature reviews

Pending:

• Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) -> author is responding to some final comments
• supporting ns-3 transport protocols over IPv6 -> needs tests, and could use improvements to the IPv6AddressHelper API
• RED queues, mailing list post -> merged to ns-3-dev and is being kept there for now so as to not disturb the repository, but requires some relicensing of original BSD-licensed source before we can release it

NSOC/GSOC code merges:

• Monitor mode support (Update from Bjorn) -> sliding to ns-3.14
• LTE RRC extension -> sliding to ns-3.14
• UAN Mobility Model merge (from previous GSOC) -> sliding to ns-3.14
  • blocked on resolving changes to WaypointMobilityModel API

Other:

• HTTP traffic generator -> needs initial review
• DelayBox -> author responding to comments
• TDMA model -> sliding to ns-3.14
• BRITE Integration -> sliding to ns-3.14
• Poisson Pareto Burst Process -> sliding to ns-3.14, author responding to comments
• LTE LENA code -> sliding to ns-3.14
  • Original post: http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2011-June/009121.html
  • current action plan: http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2011-October/009494.html
• CLWPR (Cross Layer, Weighted, Position-based, Routing) -> sliding to future
• CSMA module improvements -> sliding to future
• GPSR (Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing) -> Posted for pre-review, presently missing test suite.
• Switched Ethernet Device
• Finishing ns-3-click-mac extensions
• TCP Echo
• TCP Options
• Packet Tag List
• Antenna Model patch
• Map container

Bugs being worked

Simulation core

Bugs or issues involving things that are not related to protocol or channel models.

• 101 RandomVariable enhancements Mitch Watrous and Tom Henderson
• 938 Doxygen cleanup Vedran Miletić and Tom Henderson
• 962 path to attributes has bogus entries Nicola Baldo
• 1170 best practices for unused variables John Abraham and Andrey Mazo
• 1192 Some test cases fail to clean up properly (missing DoTeardown) Claudio Freire
• 1327-1331 packaging related enhancements Vedran Miletić and Gustavo Carneiro
• 1313 Stddev (average.h) returning NaN Mitch Watrous
• NetDevice queue feedback Ruben Merz, Frederic Urbani, and Tom Henderson
  • explained here: http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2011-July/009170.html

Bugs in ns-3 models

• 1333 Wrong initial estimation after reset in RttEstimator Adrian Tam
• 1053 Need better error diagnostics in ns2-mobility-trace example Anirudh