Monday, April 6, 2009

ns-3.4 released

ns-3.4 has been released and is immediately available at http://www.nsnam.org/releases/ns-allinone-3.4.tar.bz2.

New user-visible features
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a) Wifi models: Timo Bingman contributed a ThreeLogDistance and a Nakagami propagation loss model based on the ns-2 models. Fabian Mauchle contributed multicast support.

b) Object Name Service: A facility allowing ns-3 Objects to be assigned names has been added.

c) Tap Bridge: A second option for integrating ns-3 with real-world hosts has been added. This allows for real hosts to talk over ns-3 net devices and simulated networks.

d) A new build option (ns-3-allinone) has been provided to make it easier for users to download and bulid commonly used ns-3 configurations.

e) The ns-2 calendar queue scheduler has been ported to ns-3.

f) XML support has been added to the ConfigStore.

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