Revision as of 14:31, 17 March 2013

This page summarizes the ongoing release planning for ns-3.17. The ns-3 release process is listed here and here.

Release schedule

• April (date TBD) 2013 -- ns-3.17 released

Proposed supported platforms

Our primary platforms for this release are planned to be:

• Ubuntu 12.10 and 13.04 (32/64 bit systems)
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and 10.04 LTS (64 bit)
• Fedora 17 and 18 (32/64 bit systems)
• Mac OS 10.8 (64 bit)
• FreeBSD 8.2, 9.1 (64 bit)

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• Cygwin 1.7.6.1 (for Windows 7)
• Mac OS X 10.7 (64 bit)
• Linux on PowerPC hardware
• Debian 6 and 7 (64-bit)
• Linux Mint
• CentOS

Packaging

ns-3.17 will be packaged as a source tarball as before: ns-allinone-3.17.tar.bz2.

The main difference is that the <a href="http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/index.php/BakeIntegration">bake build system</a> is planned to be added.

new feature reviews

The following reviews are pending for ns-3.17.

• bake: http://codereview.appspot.com/6761057/
• Waf 1.7 upgrade: https://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1562
• Node/NetDevice Start/Stop: http://codereview.appspot.com/6530051/
• GSOC code review for HLA interfaces: http://codereview.appspot.com/6458160/
• GSOC code review for NAT and Netfilter: http://codereview.appspot.com/6454146/
• Low resolution radio model: code review
• Wideband propagation model (only exponential PDP is implemented); [1]
• 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
• BitTorrent: http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2012-December/010783.html
• Switched Ethernet device: http://codereview.appspot.com/5615049/
• HTTP traffic generator: http://codereview.appspot.com/4940041/
• GPSR: http://codereview.appspot.com/5401042
• TMix and Delaybox: http://code.google.com/p/tmix-ns3/
• SNR tag patches: https://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1566
• Burst error model: https://codereview.appspot.com/7183044/
• TCP Westwood/Westwood+: https://codereview.appspot.com/7227059/
• SMCEN/RNS: https://codereview.appspot.com/7304093/
• FDNetDevice: http://codereview.appspot.com/6458154/

Bugs being worked

TBD

Bugs in ns-3 models

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