Revision as of 14:40, 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 5 -- new feature freeze, ns-3.17 release candidate 1 posted
• April 19 -- code freeze, final RC candidate
• April 24 -- ns-3.17 released if no blocking issues remain on April 19 RC

We will use bugzilla to track bug priorities (esp. P1 blocker bugs) for the next release.

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 code is likely to be merged provided that final integration issues (documentation, testing, examples) are resolved:

• bake: http://codereview.appspot.com/6761057/
  • The BakeIntegration page has more details
• Waf 1.7 upgrade: https://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1562
  • Vedran, Alina, and Alex have been working on finalizing this
• Burst error model: https://codereview.appspot.com/7183044/
• TCP Westwood/Westwood+: https://codereview.appspot.com/7227059/
• FDNetDevice: http://codereview.appspot.com/6458154/

The following code is not currently on the merge path for ns-3.17:

• Node/NetDevice Start/Stop: http://codereview.appspot.com/6530051/
  • Reworks were discussed at March developer meeting
• 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
  • Sliding to ns-3.18 due to availability of contributors to work the comments
• 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
• SMCEN/RNS: https://codereview.appspot.com/7304093/

Bugs being worked

TBD

Bugs in ns-3 models

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