The ns-3 simulator is a discrete-event network simulator targeted primarily for research and educational use. The ns-3 project, started in 2006, is an open-source project developing ns-3. Primary documentation for the ns-3 project is available in four forms: ns-3 Doxygen/Manual: Documentation of the public APIs of the simulator. Tutorial (this document). Reference Manual: Reference Manual. ns-3 wiki. | ns-3 Tutorial ns-3 project feedback ns-developers@ 3 May 2010 This is an ns-3 tutorial. Primary documentation for the ns-3 project is available in four forms ns-3 Doxygen Manual Documentation of the public APIs of the simulator Tutorial this document Reference Manual Reference Manual ns-3 wiki This document is written in GNU Texinfo and is to be maintained in revision control on the ns-3 code server. Both PDF and HTML versions should be available on the server. Changes to the document should be discussed on the ns-developers@ mailing list. This software is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation either version 2 of the License or at your option any later version. This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not see http licenses . i Table of Contents 1 Introduction. 1 For ns-2 Users. 1 Contributing. 2 Tutorial Organization. 2 2 Resources. 3 The Web. 3 Mercurial. 3 Waf. 3 Development Environment. 4 Socket Programming. 4 3 Getting Started. 6 Downloading ns-3. 6 Downloading ns-3 Using Mercurial. 6 Downloading ns-3 Using a Tarball. 9 Building ns-3. 10 Building with . 10 Building with Waf. 10 Testing ns-3. 12 Running a Script. 14 4 Conceptual Overview. 15 Key Abstractions. 15 Node. 15 Application. 15 Channel. 16 Net Device. 16 Topology Helpers. 17 A First ns-3 Script. 17 Boilerplate. 17 Module Includes. 18 Ns3 Namespace. 18 Logging. 19 Main Function. 19 Topology NodeContainer. 20 .
