Revision as of 05:29, 10 August 2012

This page summarizes the ongoing release planning for ns-3.15. No release manager is yet appointed. The ns-3 release process is listed here and here.

Release schedule

1. Wed Jul 25 -- new feature freeze</s>
2. Wed Aug 8 Wed Aug 15 -- code freeze on ns-3-dev
   • bug 101 fixes are pending
3. Wed Aug 15 Wed Aug 22-- ns-3.15 released

Proposed supported platforms

TBD

Packaging

TBD

new feature reviews

Pending for ns-3.16

These potential new features are sliding to ns-3.16.

• Brian Panneton's antenna model updates http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2012-April/010322.html
• New IEEE 802.11b indoor wireless channel models for (HMM and BEAR)
• Longley-Rice and ITU terrain-aware propagation models
• TCP Echo Code review here, needs updating
• Finishing ns-3-click-mac extensions -> Blocked by queue API resolution
• Monitor mode support (Update from Bjorn)
• UAN Mobility Model merge (from previous GSOC)
  • blocked on resolving changes to WaypointMobilityModel API
• Switched Ethernet device: http://codereview.appspot.com/5615049/
• HTTP traffic generator: http://codereview.appspot.com/4940041/
• GPSR: http://codereview.appspot.com/5401042

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
  • Patchset 1: The basic change to the implementation and API: http://codereview.appspot.com/6305104/
  • Patchsets 2+: Changes to the models/helpers
    • aodv: http://codereview.appspot.com/6436052
    • applications: http://codereview.appspot.com/6421061
    • csma: http://codereview.appspot.com/6448069
    • dsdv: http://codereview.appspot.com/6444050
    • dsr: http://codereview.appspot.com/6449046
    • internet: http://codereview.appspot.com/6442056
    • netanim: http://codereview.appspot.com/6453067
    • olsr: http://codereview.appspot.com/6450073
    • uan: http://codereview.appspot.com/6443073
    • wifi: http://codereview.appspot.com/6450087
    • wimax: http://codereview.appspot.com/6446093
• 582 Tags are not serialized and deserialized from Packet::Serialize and Packet::Deserialize Peter Barnes
  • Patchset 1: Add class Hash: generic hash function interface http://codereview.appspot.com/6357056/
  • Patchset 2: Add hashes to TypeId. http://codereview.appspot.com/6344063/
  • Patchset 3: Refactor PacketTagList http://codereview.appspot.com/6354061/
• 938 Doxygen cleanup Vedran Miletić and Tom Henderson
• 1192 Some test cases fail to clean up properly (missing DoTeardown) Claudio Freire
• NetDevice queue feedback Ruben Merz, Frederic Urbani, and Tom Henderson
  • explained here: http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2011-July/009170.html
• Object::Stop patch http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2012-May/010392.html

Bugs in ns-3 models

Open bugs will be worked on a best-effort basis.