Ns-3.34
From Nsnam
This page was used to summarize the release planning for ns-3.34. The ns-3 release process is listed here and here.
Release goals
This page highlights some features and issues that ns-3 maintainers have mentioned as goals for ns-3.34. For a more current look at what is being actively worked on, search for the 'ns-3.34' milestone in the issue tracker and merge request tracker:
- https://gitlab.com/nsnam/ns-3-dev/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&milestone_title=ns-3.34
- https://gitlab.com/nsnam/ns-3-dev/-/merge_requests?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&milestone_title=ns-3.34
The following goals have been listed by various ns-3 maintainers, with notes about progress towards them.
- Finish 2020 Google Summer of Code and ns-3 Summer of Code merges
- Status: App Store and most of queue code have been merged. TCP Prague and NetDeviceState is still unmerged (will slip to future release).
- Wi-Fi: Merge the pending 802.11ax support (see the Merge Request tracker), PHY layer rework, possibly 11be and NR-U
- Status: Stefano has one more patch (round robin scheduler) to post and merge, and then we can declare
- Traffic control: Remaining CAKE support (ACK filtering)
- Status: Postponed to future release.
- TCP: Add BBRv1 and BBRv2 models, and other lingering TCP patches (FACK, DSACK, RACK, AccECN, ECN++); path MTU discovery?
- Status: BBRv1 is still in the ns-3.34 plan; other feature for
- core: Additional support for newer C++ language features
- Status: Can add up to C++14 to the extent that changes do not impact our Python bindings
- underwater acoustic networks: integration with world ocean simulation system (WOSS)
- Status: TBD
- full-duplex CSMA
- Status: Probably slipping to future release
- phased array antenna
- Status: Merged
- hexagonal position allocator
- Status: Probably slipping to future release.
- 6LoWPAN neighbor discovery and RFC alignment, possibly RPL
- Status: Probably slipping to future release.
