Section: Software and Platforms

ns-3

Participants : Thierry Turletti [correspondant] , Daniel Camara, Walid Dabbous.

ns-3 is a discrete-event network simulator for Internet systems, targeted primarily for research and educational use. ns-3 is free software, licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license, and is publicly available for research, development, and use. ns-3 includes a solid event-driven simulation core as well as an object framework focused on simulation configuration and event tracing, a set of solid 802.11 MAC and PHY models, an IPv4, UDP, and TCP stack and support for nsc (integration of Linux and BSD TCP/IP network stacks).

See also the web page http://www.nsnam.org .

• Version: ns-3.19

• Keywords: networking event-driven simulation

• License: GPL (GPLv2)

• Type of human computer interaction: programmation C++/python, No GUI

• OS/Middleware: Linux, cygwin, osX

• Required library or software: standard C++ library: GPLv2

• Programming language: C++, python

• Documentation: doxygen