ns-3.5 released
Mathieu Lacage
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Availability
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This release is immediately available from:
http://www.nsnam.org/releases/ns-allinone-3.5.tar.bz2
Supported platforms
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ns-3.5 has been tested on the following platforms:
- linux x86 gcc 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)
- mingw gcc 3.4.5 (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
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a) 802.11 MAC:
- EDCA multi-qos-class support (Mirko Banchi)
- 802.11n initial support for A-MSDU frame aggregation (Mirko
Banchi)
- aarf-cd and cara rate control algorithms (Federico Maguolo)
b) 802.11 PHY:
- 802.11b PHY support (Gary Pei)
- Nakagami propagation loss model (Timo Bingmann)
- radiotap and prism headers for PCAP output (Nicola Baldo)
c) RandomVariable:
- GammaVariable and ErlangVariable (Timo Bingmann)
- ZipfVariable (Francesco Malandrino)
d) UdpEcho: allows setting the payload of echo packets
e) Ipv4/Ipv4RoutingProtocol: allow fine-grained control over routing
policy and arbitrary composition of routing protocols
API changes from ns-3.4
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API changes for this release are documented in the file CHANGES.html.
The internal API and composition of the IPv4 stack underwent significant
refactoring in this release cycle.
Known issues
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ns-3 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
Future releases
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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 including fuller IPv6 support, some smaller features such as
a new Global ARP package, and possibly a new Testing and Validation
suite.
Mathieu Lacage
> Hi Mathieu,
>
> Will 802.11s mesh network be included in ns-3.6??
This all depends on the authors of that new functionality to propose it
for inclusion and work to merge it in ns-3-dev.
Mathieu
Jp
traces". Should I use the ref-traces from ns-3.4 ??
thanks, bye
On Jul 4, 3:52 am, Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lac...@sophia.inria.fr>
wrote:
> Release3.5
>
> Availability
> ------------
> This release is immediately available from:http://www.nsnam.org/releases/ns-allinone-3.5.tar.bz2
>
> Supported platforms
> -------------------