[Ns-developers] ns-3.6 Release Candidate 2 Posted

[Gustavo Carneiro]

2009/10/14 <craigdo at ee.washington.edu>

>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm happy to announce that release candidate number two for ns-3.6
> (ns-3.6-RC2) is now available at the below location (via tarball):
>
>  http://www.nsnam.org/releases/ns-allinone-3.6-RC2.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-RC2 -r ns-3.6-RC2-ref-traces
>
> This is a release candidate, which means that we believe this version of
> ns-3.6 is almost ready for release, but we want to make absolutely sure
> that
> nothing has snuck in that could cause serious problems.  We would
> appreciate
> it if you all could find time to look at this candidate with an eye to
> finding problems before we call it "golden."
>
> Please see this "getting started" page if you are new to ns-3:
>
>  http://www.nsnam.org/getting_started.html
>
> >From the RELEASE_NOTES file in the distribution ...
>
> Release 3.6
> ===========
>
> Availability
> ------------
> This release is immediately available from:
>
>  http://www.nsnam.org/releases/ns-allinone-3.6.tar.bz2
>
> Supported platforms
> -------------------
> ns-3.6 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
> -------------------------
>
>  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.
>

You could also mention:

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

Regards.


> API changes from ns-3.5
> -----------------------
> API changes for this release are documented in the file CHANGES.html of the
> distribution.
>
> Known issues
> ------------
> ns-3.6-RC2 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.
>
> New test framework is known to fail the mesh example under valgrind.
>
> Regards,
>
> -- Craig
>
>
>
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-- 
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
INESC Porto, Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit
"The universe is always one step beyond logic." -- Frank Herbert