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In addition, the following developers have announced intentions to work on these topics for ns-3.25:
 
In addition, the following developers have announced intentions to work on these topics for ns-3.25:

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This page summarizes the release planning for ns-3.25 (January 2016). The ns-3 release process is listed here and here.

Release goals

New features will be driven by contributions.

Already added

In progress

Please visit the patch status section below on items that are presently in work or are requesting review.

In addition, the following developers have announced intentions to work on these topics for ns-3.25:

  • Tom Henderson is working on a Spectrum implementation of the ns-3 Wifi physical layer
  • Chip Webb is working on improving support for Ethernet (full duplex links, switches and mixed L2/L3 networks) and on adding support for generating pcap trace files with nanosecond resolution timestamps
  • Natale Patriciello and Stefano Avallone are working on a priority queueing layer and flow control in the IP stack
  • Natale Patriciello would like to merge TCP BIC and CUBIC implementations
  • Sebastien Deronne and other Wi-Fi developers are working on:
    • 802.11b short PLCP support
    • HT/VHT Minstrel
    • HT/VHT Ideal RAA
    • 802.11 PCF
    • 802.11n/ac PHY layer improvement + initial MIMO support
    • 802.11 frame sync (PLCP signal detection) model
  • GSOC maintainers would like to merge the code developed on the following three projects:
    • LTE carrier aggregation
    • MPTCP
    • 802.15.4 Phy and MAC protocols

Release and development schedule

The release is planned for late January with a code freeze in mid January. More specific dates to be provided later.

Feature and patch review status

A current proposal discussed on ns-developers list is to use the bug tracker to identify and status items being actively worked. We'll post a URL here at a future date once that proposal has been settled.

Presently, one new feature is in 'last call' state, regarding TCP refactoring:

https://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2188

Packaging

To be determined.

Release platforms

To be determined.