Nabble - ns-announce

ns-3.6 Stable Release Posted

2009-10-21T18:38:29Z

Hi All,

I'm happy to announce that ns-3.6 (the latest stable release of ns-3) is now
available at the below location (via tarball):

http://www.nsnam.org/releases/ns-allinone-3.6.tar.bz2

And also (via Mercurial):

hg clone http://code.nsnam.org/ns-3-allinone
cd ns-3-allinone
./download.py -n ns-3.6 -r ns-3.6-ref-traces

Note: Bazaar client software (bzr) must be upgraded to version 2.0 to use
Python bindings with the Mercurial option. Try "bzr version" to see which
version is currently installed on your system.

Please see this "getting started" page if you are new to ns-3:

http://www.nsnam.org/getting_started.html

Supported platforms
-------------------
ns-3.6 has been tested on the following platforms:
- linux x86 gcc 4.4.1, 4.2, 4.1, and, 3.4.6.
- linux x86_64 gcc 4.4.0, 4.3.2, 4.2.3, 4.2.1, 4.1.3, 3.4.6
- MacOS X ppc and x86 (gcc 4.0.x and 4.2.x)
- cygwin gcc 3.4.4 (debug only), gcc 4.3.2 (debug and optimized)

Not all ns-3 options are available on all platforms; consult the wiki for
more information:

http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/index.php/Installation

New user-visible features
-------------------------

a) 802.11 models:
- Add an implementation of the minstrel rate control algorithm
(Duy Nguyen for gsoc)
- AthstatsHelper: enables the wifi device to produce periodic
reports similar to the ones generated by madwifi's
athstats tool (Nicola Baldo)
- 10MHz and 5MHz channel width supported by 802.11a model
(Ramon Bauza and Kirill Andreev)
- Channel switching support. YansWifiPhy can now switch among
different channels (Ramon Bauza and Pavel Boyko)

b) IPv6 models:
- IPv6 interface;
- IPv6 layer;
- IPv6 raw socket;
- Static IPv6 routing;
- ICMPv6 layer;
- Some ICMPv6 error messages (destination unreachable, ...);
- Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NS/NA, RS/RA, redirection);
- Ping6 application (send Echo request);
- Radvd application (send RA);
- Examples (ping6, simple-routing-ping6, radvd, radvd-two-prefix,
icmpv6-redirect).

c) Wireless Mesh Networking models:
- General multi-interface mesh stack infrastructure (devices/mesh
module).
- IEEE 802.11s (Draft 3.0) model including Peering Management Protocol
and HWMP.
- Forwarding Layer for Meshing (FLAME) protocol.

d) Nix-vector routing:
- Ipv4NixVectorHelper
- Examples (nix-simple, nms-p2p-nix)

e) New Test Framework
- Use test.py instead of ./waf check or ./waf --regression
- Previous unit tests have been ported to new framework.
- Examples are tested for run-ability.

f) A new Flow Monitor module
- To very easily measure flow metrics in a simulation
- No need to use trace callbacks or parsing trace files

API changes from ns-3.5
-----------------------
API changes for this release are documented in the file CHANGES.html.

Known issues
------------
ns-3.6 build is known to fail on the following platforms:
- gcc 3.3 and earlier
- optimized builds on gcc 3.4.4 and 3.4.5
- optimized builds on linux x86 gcc 4.0.x
- MinGW

Enjoy!

-- Craig

[ AntNet ] Download Ns2.33-Antnet1.0 by Richardson Lima

2009-09-11T11:26:51Z

All,

New link for download !!!
http://antnet.wordpress.com

Software implementations of AntNet posted by Gianni Di Caro

http://www.idsia.ch/~gianni/antnet.html

Lavina Jain made an implementation of AntNet for NS-2 (that can be also downloaded here). Starting from Jain’s code, Richardson Lima has released a revised and updated version of AntNet for NS-2.33. Since I’m not an NS-2 user, I haven’t checked these implementations, but I guess the Lima’s implementation can be used as a good starting point. If you plan to use Lima’s code, please feel free to contact me to check/improve the quality of the implementation.

Download Ns2.33-Antnet1.0 by Richardson Lima

http://www.foxylinux.com/ns2-33_AND_antnet1.0_by_RichardsonLima.tar.gz

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http://antnet.wordpress.com
http://richardsonlima.foxylinux.com
www.foxylinux.com ( Because nobody was born with Linux knowledge! )
http://securityfusion.sourceforge.net
(Security Fusion intrusion detection system)

Position: Security System Administrator
Location: Networking and Telecommuncations Research Group
Federal University of Pernambuco
Informatics Center, Brazil

P.O. Box: 7851, ZIP: 50732-970
Phone: +55-81-2126-8954 Fax:+55-81-2126-8955
Gsm Mobile: +55 81 88725173

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Re: announcing ns-2.34, nam-1.14 releases and ns-allinone-2.34 package

2009-07-10T15:29:47Z

Tom Henderson wrote:
> This is to announce the posting of the ns-2.34 and nam-1.14 source code
> releases and a corresponding ns-allinone-2.34 package.

Those of you who may have tried to download the ns-allinone-2.34 package
after this release was announced may have found that the file on the
Sourceforge site was corrupted and couldn't be unzipped. There is now a
working file posted at Sourceforge.

- Tom

EXtensible Animator for Mobile Simulations

2009-07-10T01:04:18Z

Hello NS-2 community,

I am glad to announce the availability of the EXtensible Animator for
Mobile Simulations (EXAMS). EXAMS is a visualization tool for wireless
NS-2 simulations.

EXAMS is an open source project available online at:

http://www.livathinos.gr/EXAMS_overview.aspx

EXAMS’ goal is to help the researcher understand the mobile routing
protocol with an exact visual representation of the NS-2 simulation
outcome, while at the same time enabling him to control the animation
process. It can visualize network layout, animate mobile nodes’ movements,
playback packets exchange at routing and agent level, give user the
ability to freely move forward and backwards in simulation time and depict
the network partitions according to given radio range. As regards data
transmissions EXAMS can portray source and destination address, network
level (routing or agent), direction, flow sequence and other. Moreover
EXAMS keeps detailed statistics about data being sent, received, forwarded
or dropped on a node and network basis

EXAMS has been designed with the protocol developer in mind and provides a
complete environment to study, test and debug wireless network protocols.
Its unique characteristic is its extensible architecture which makes it
possible to visualize network protocol’s internal data structures like
routing tables, values for protocol’s state variables, protocol specific
packet types - in fact anything inside the trace file. Technically this is
achievable through protocol extensions which are developed by the protocol
designer himself and are responsible to visualize protocol’s data
according to its own semantics. Additionally the visual environment of
EXAMS incorporates many user friendly features like:

- Fast jump to a specific line of the trace file.
- Zoom in/out capability.
- Filtering of network traffic according to routing and/or agent layer.
- Screenshots capture to external image file.
- Color and shape codes for data transmission.
- Extensive usage of keyboard shortcuts.

Yours faithfully,

Nikos Livathinos

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MSc, Livathinos Nikolaos,
Computer and Informatics Engineer.

Web: www.livathinos.gr
Email: nikos@...
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announcing ns-2.34, nam-1.14 releases and ns-allinone-2.34 package

2009-06-18T07:08:04Z

This is to announce the posting of the ns-2.34 and nam-1.14 source code
releases and a corresponding ns-allinone-2.34 package.

Downloads are available at the Sourceforge project pages:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=149743
File checksums are located in the corresponding release notes on
Sourceforge.

ns-2.34 is mainly a maintenance release with the following major
differences from ns-2.33:
1) AOMDV (On-demand Multipath Distance Vector Routing in Ad Hoc
Networks) implementation
2) Tmix synthetic Internet traffic generation tool
3) Collection of bug fixes for 802.11Ext model

In addition, the recent Linux distributions (especially Fedora Core 10)
started to have problems with the previous releases, so there are some
fixes aimed at better 64-bit support and support for Fedora Core 10
(thanks to John Heidemann and Amir Habibi for working these issues).
A more descriptive change log is available at:
http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/CHANGES.html.

The nam-1.14 release is purely a maintenance release with no new features.

If people encounter problems with these releases, please post
suggestions to the ns-developers mailing list, or file a bug report:
http://nsnam.isi.edu/nsnam/index.php/Contributing#Reporting_a_bug

For troubleshooting or workaround tips, please consult (and contribute
to) the following wiki page:
http://nsnam.isi.edu/nsnam/index.php/Troubleshooting

[released] Ns-2.33 compiled with Antnet implemented

2009-03-31T12:08:19Z

Dears,

Currently many researchers are sending me emails reporting problems in the implementation antnet,so I am put the tarball ns2.33_and_AntNet1.0_compiled.tar.gz ,this package contains the Ns-2.33 compiled with Antnet implemented, the link for download is http://antnet.wordpress.com , the space on the FTP server was provided by Li Amoos.
Amoos Lin is Ph.D candidate on Department of Electronic Engineering in National Taiwan University of Science and Technology,Taiwan.

To solve some problems in the implementation I am writing a second version of the manual for implementation of antnet in ns-2.33, I report some ‘tricks’.

Hope that I have helped.

Regards,

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-----------------------------------------------
Richardson Lima
http://antnet.wordpress.com
http://securityfusion.sourceforge.net
(Security Fusion intrusion detection system)

Position: Security System Administrator
Location: Networking and Telecommuncations Research Group
Federal University of Pernambuco
Informatics Center, Brazil

P.O. Box: 7851, ZIP: 50732-970
Phone: +55-81-2126-8954 Fax:+55-81-2126-8955
Gsm Mobile: +55 81 88725173

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New ns-3 Stable Release Posted (ns-3.3)

2008-12-18T23:54:00Z

Hi All,

I am happy to announce that the latest stable release of ns-3 (ns-3.3) is
immediately available at the below location:

http://www.nsnam.org/releases/ns-3.3.tar.bz2

Please see this "getting started" page if you are new to ns-3:

http://www.nsnam.org/getting_started.html

Supported platforms
-------------------
ns-3.3 has been tested on the following platforms:
- Linux x86 gcc 4.2, 4.1, and, 3.4.6.
- Linux x86_64 gcc 4.3.2, 4.2.3, 4.2.1, 4.1.3, 3.4.6
- MacOS X ppc and x86
- Cygwin gcc 3.4.4 (debug only)

Not all ns-3 options are available on all platforms; consult the wiki for
more information:

http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/index.php/Installation

New user-visible features in ns-3.3
-----------------------------------
a) Emulated Net Device

A new net device has been added as enabling technology for
ns-3 emulation scenarios. See src/devices/emu and
examples/emu-udp-echo.cc for details.

b) ICMP Support
Support for several ICMP messages has been added to ns-3.
See src/internet-stack/icmpv4.h for details.

c) IPv6 Address Support
New classes to support IPv6 addresses has been added to the
system. This is enabling technology for fuller IPv6 support
scheduled for ns-3.4.

API changes from ns-3.2
-----------------------
API changes for this release are documented in the file CHANGES.html

Regards,

-- Craig

[Fwd: [Ns-developers] New ns-3 Stable Release Posted (ns-3.2)]

2008-09-22T21:16:56Z

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Ns-developers] New ns-3 Stable Release Posted (ns-3.2)
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:51:56 -0700
From: <craigdo@...>
Reply-To: craigdo@...
Organization: The University of Washington
To: 'ns-developers' <ns-developers@...>

Hi all,

I am happy to announce that the latest stable release of ns-3 (ns-3.2) is
immediately available at the below location:

http://www.nsnam.org/releases/ns-3.2.tar.bz2

Please see this "getting started" page if you are new to ns-3:
http://www.nsnam.org/getting_started.html

Selected items from the RELEASE_NOTES file in the distribution ...

Supported platforms
-------------------

ns-3 is regularly tested on the following platforms:
- linux x86 gcc 4.2, 4.1, and, 3.4.6.
- linux x86_64 gcc 4.1.3, 4.2.1, 3.4.6
- MacOS X ppc and x86
- cygwin gcc 3.4.4 (debug only)

Known issues
------------

ns-3 is known to fail on the following platforms:
- gcc 3.3 and earlier
- optimized builds on gcc 3.4.4 and 3.4.5
- optimized builds on linux x86 gcc 4.0.x
- optimized builds on Ubuntu 8.10 alpha 5 x86 gcc 4.3.2
- MinGW

New user-visible features
-------------------------
a) Learning bridge (IEEE 802.1D)
It is now possible to bridge together multiple layer 2 devices to
create larger layer 2 networks. The Wifi and Csma models support
this new mode of operation. (contributed by Gustavo Carneiro)

b) Python bindings
It is now possible to write simulation scripts in python using our
python bindings (contributed by Gustavo Carneiro).

c) Real-time simulator
It is now possible to run simulations synchronized on the real-world
wall-clock time (contributed by Craig Dowell).

d) Network Simulation Cradle
It is now possible to use the Network Simulation Cradle
(http://www.wand.net.nz/~stj2/nsc/) in ns-3 and run simulations
using various versions of kernel TCP network stacks. (contributed
by Florian Westphal as part of his Google Summer of Code work)

e) A statistics framework
Joseph Kopena contributed a statistics framework which can be used
keep track of simulation data in persistent storage across multiple
runs (database and ascii file backends are available).
More information on the wiki:

http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/index.php/Statistical_Framework_for_Network_Simula
tion

-- Craig

ns-3.1 Stable Release Posted

2008-06-30T22:25:43Z

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Ns-developers] Ns-3.1 Stable Release Posted
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:03:09 -0700
From: <craigdo@...>
Reply-To: craigdo@...
Organization: The University of Washington
To: 'ns-developers' <ns-developers@...>

I am happy to report to you that the initial stable release of ns-3 is
now immediately available.

>From the RELEASE_NOTES file in the distribution ...

Release 3.1 (2008/06/30)
========================

The first ns-3 stable release
-----------------------------

This release is immediately available from:
http://www.nsnam.org/releases/ns-3.1.tar.bz2

We dedicate this initial ns-3 release to our late contributor and
friend, Federico Maguolo.

What is ns-3 ?
--------------

ns-3 is a new discrete-event network simulator designed for supporting
network research and education. ns-3 features a solid, well documented
C++ core and models for TCP/IP (IPv4), several link types including
WiFi, and mobility models.

ns-3 is an open source project released under the GNU GPLv2 license
which allows anyone to use ns-3 without having to pay any license fee or
royalties. ns-3 is actively seeking new contributors to extend the range
of supported models and/or to maintain existing models.

Where to get more information about ns-3
----------------------------------------

All the ns-3 documentation, is accessible from the ns-3 website:
http://www.nsnam.org

Including, tutorials:
http://www.nsnam.org/tutorials.html

Supported platforms
-------------------

ns-3 is regularly tested on the following platforms:
- linux x86 gcc 4.2, 4.1, and, 3.4.6.
- linux x86_64 gcc 4.1.3, 4.2.1, 3.4.6
- MacOS X ppc and x86
- cygwin gcc 3.4.4 (debug only)

Known issues
------------

ns-3 is known to fail on the following platforms:
- gcc 3.3 and earlier
- optimized builds on gcc 3.4.4 and 3.4.5
- optimized builds on linux x86 gcc 4.0.x

The IPv4 API defined in src/node/ipv4.h is expected to undergo major
changes in preparation of the merge of the IPv6 API and implementation.

Future releases
---------------

Our next release, which is expected to happen in 2 to 4 months from now,
will feature the merging of some of our projects currently in
development: python scripting, IPv6, emulation, a statistics framework
and synchronous posix sockets.

announcing ns-2.33 release and allinone package

2008-03-31T22:30:12Z

This is to announce the posting of the ns-2.33 source code release and a
corresponding ns-allinone-2.33 package.

Downloads are available at the Sourceforge project pages:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=149743
File checksums are located in the corresponding release notes on
Sourceforge.

There have been a number of significant contributions to ns-2 since the
last release, and I'd like to acknowledge the work that people have done
to contribute and integrate the following extensions.

1) several new 802.11 models
-- Ilango Purushothaman's infrastructure mode extensions
-- the 802.11Ext models from a Mercedes-Benz R&D, NA and University
of Karlsruhe team
-- dynamic libraries patch and multirate 802.11 library from Nicola
Baldo and Federico Maguolo of the SIGNET group, University of Padova

The ns-2 documentation has a new overview for 802.11 models, with
pointers to more documentation:
http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/doc/node193.html#sec:802_11

The dynamic libraries patch is more generally applicable and is
documented here:
http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/doc/node300.html

2) David Wei has improved the calendar queue scheduler:
http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/doc/node35.html

3) David also imported TCP congestion control models from the Linux kernel:
http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/doc/node403.html

As usual, the release also includes several bug fixes that were
discussed on the developer's list. A more descriptive change log is
available at: http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/CHANGES.html. Thanks also to
the people who tested our release candidates.

If people encounter problems with these releases, please post
suggestions to the ns-developers mailing list, or file a bug report:
http://nsnam.isi.edu/nsnam/index.php/Contributing#Reporting_a_bug

For troubleshooting or workaround tips, please consult (and contribute
to) the following wiki page:
http://nsnam.isi.edu/nsnam/index.php/Troubleshooting

- Tom

announcing ns-2.32 release and allinone package

2007-09-03T23:34:12Z

This is to announce the posting of the ns-2.32 source code release and a
corresponding ns-allinone-2.32 package.

Downloads are available at the Sourceforge project pages:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=149743
File checksums are located in the corresponding release notes on
Sourceforge.

The following have been added to ns-2 since ns-2.31:
- enable Tk for ns-2 (Pedro Vale Estrela's patch)
- split validation tests into "portable" and "non-portable" tests
- SCTP enhancements and bug fixes (from University of Delaware PEL)
- change validation compression format to gzip
- updated Tcl/Tk (8.4.15) for the allinone package
A more descriptive change log is available at:
http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/CHANGES.html

If people encounter problems with these releases, please post
suggestions to the ns-developers mailing list, or file a bug report:
http://nsnam.isi.edu/nsnam/index.php/Contributing#Reporting_a_bug

For troubleshooting or workaround tips, please consult (and contribute
to) the following wiki page:
http://nsnam.isi.edu/nsnam/index.php/Troubleshooting

- Tom

announcing ns-2.31 release and related packages

2007-03-11T09:02:42Z

This is to announce the posting of the following releases:
- ns-2.31
- nam-1.13
- otcl-1.13
- tclcl-1.19
and a corresponding ns-allinone-2.31 package.

Downloads are available at the Sourceforge project pages:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=149743
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=30174
File checksums are located in the corresponding release notes on
Sourceforge.

Besides updates to the build process to support newer platforms, the
following have been added to ns-2 since ns-2.30:
- several changes/fixes to the WPAN module, from Iyappan Ramachandran
- various patches to allow ns to compile on Solaris with Sun C compiler,
courtesy of Emil Mikulic and Michele Weigle
- changes to the PackMimeHTTP module for improved HTTP/1.1 behavior,
from Michele Weigle
- additional TCP maintenance from Sally Floyd
A more descriptive change log is available at:
http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/CHANGES.html

If people encounter problems with these releases, please post
suggestions to the ns-developers mailing list, or file a bug report:
http://nsnam.isi.edu/nsnam/index.php/Contributing#Reporting_a_bug

For troubleshooting or workaround tips, please consult (and contribute
to) the following wiki page:
http://nsnam.isi.edu/nsnam/index.php/Troubleshooting

Thanks to those who tested the release candidates, especially Francesco
Gringoli for helping with OS X issues.

Tom

website for ns-3 project

2006-09-28T23:09:58Z

In July, we announced that a team of PIs, in collaboration with INRIA,
had obtained funding from NSF to develop the next major version of ns-3:
http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-users/2006-July/056352.html

A small team of us has worked hard over the summer to establish some
project infrastructure, initial designs, and initial code, and we'd like
to announce its availability today at the following website:
http://www.nsnam.org

We will regularly maintain that website and the documentation contained
therein. Please visit our website if you are interested in contributing
or in tracking the project. We plan to hold technical discussions on
the existing ns-developers mailing list.

-Tom

announcing ns-2.30 release and related packages

2006-09-26T15:24:05Z

This is to announce the posting of the following releases:
- ns-2.30
- nam-1.12
- otcl-1.12
- tclcl-1.18
and a corresponding ns-allinone-2.30 package.

Downloads are available at the Sourceforge project pages:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=149743
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=30174

md5sums are located in the release notes on Sourceforge.

Aside from updates to the build process to support newer platforms, the
following have been added to ns-2 since ns-2.29:
- new DelayBox and PackMimeHTTP modules contributed by Michele Weigle
- updates to the SCTP, XCP, and TFRC implementations
- miscellaneous bugfixes
A full change log is available at:
http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/CHANGES.html

If people encounter problems with these releases, please post
suggestions to the ns-developers mailing list, or file a bug report:
http://nsnam.isi.edu/nsnam/index.php/Contributing#Reporting_a_bug

For troubleshooting or workaround tips, please consult (and contribute
to) the following wiki page:
http://nsnam.isi.edu/nsnam/index.php/Troubleshooting

The changes made to release the software will be merged back into the
main branch.

Thanks to Iyappan Ramachandran for helping to put these releases
together, and to Michele Weigle, Francesco Gringoli, and Cesar Marcondes
for testing the release candidates. We hope to move to a more regular
release schedule in the coming months.

Tom

announcing a new project for ns-3

2006-07-03T19:18:18Z

I'd like to officially announce a new project, funded by NSF, to develop
a next major version of ns. We are calling it the ns-3 project, and the
PIs also include Sally Floyd, George Riley, and Sumit Roy. We also have
a collaboration with the Planete group at INRIA Sophia Antipolis, where
Mathieu Lacage has been the main developer.

Broadly, the overall goals of ns-3 are to redesign the simulator in the
following areas:
- software architecture
- integration of existing networking software
- updated models
- educational use
and to perform software maintenance. More details can be found at the
following page:
http://nsnam.isi.edu/nsnam/index.php/Ns-3

The project funding will allow us to staff full-time programmers and to
fund student work on ns. We will devote some resources to continued
maintenance of ns-2 while we work on developing ns-3.

We intend for the NSF funding to be the seed for a broader open source
simulation project for the research and educational community. We
invite other research groups and individuals to participate in ns-3
development, review, discussion, and code contribution. We plan to use
the ns-developers mailing list for subsequent discussions, so if you're
interested, please subscribe there.

Tom