unison/CHANGES.md

ns-3: API and model change history

ns-3 is an evolving system and there will be API or behavioral changes from time to time. Users who try to use scripts or models across versions of ns-3 may encounter problems at compile time, run time, or may see the simulation output change.

We have adopted the development policy that we are going to try to ease the impact of these changes on users by documenting these changes in a single place (this file), and not by providing a temporary or permanent backward-compatibility software layer.

A related file is the RELEASE_NOTES.md file in the top level directory. This file complements RELEASE_NOTES.md by focusing on API and behavioral changes that users upgrading from one release to the next may encounter. RELEASE_NOTES.md attempts to comprehensively list all of the changes that were made. There is generally some overlap in the information contained in RELEASE_NOTES.md and this file.

The goal is that users who encounter a problem when trying to use older code with newer code should be able to consult this file to find guidance as to how to fix the problem. For instance, if a method name or signature has changed, it should be stated what the new replacement name is.

Note that users who upgrade the simulator across versions, or who work directly out of the development tree, may find that simulation output changes even when the compilation doesn't break, such as when a simulator default value is changed. Therefore, it is good practice for _anyone_ using code across multiple ns-3 releases to consult this file, as well as the RELEASE_NOTES.md, to understand what has changed over time.

This file is a best-effort approach to solving this issue; we will do our best but can guarantee that there will be things that fall through the cracks, unfortunately. If you, as a user, can suggest improvements to this file based on your experience, please contribute a patch or drop us a note on ns-developers mailing list.

Changes from ns-3.36 to ns-3.37

New API

Changes to existing API

Changes to build system

Changed behavior

Changes from ns-3.36 to ns-3.36.1

New API

None.

Changes to existing API

• The PTHREAD-dependent classes (mutex, thread and condition variables) were removed and replaced with C++ STL libraries. The API of the STL libraries is very similar to the equivalent ns-3 classes. The main API differences are as follows:
  • ns-3::SystemMutex should be refactored to std::mutex.
  • ns-3::CriticalSection cs (m_mutex) should be refactored to std::unique_lock lock {m_mutex}.
  • ns-3::SystemThread should be refactored to std::thread, which, unlike SystemThread, starts the thread immediately.
  • ns-3::SystemCondition should be refactored to std::condition_variable, which relies on a companion std::mutex.
• The macro for optionally including sqlite3-dependent code has been changed from STATS_HAVE_SQLITE3 to HAVE_SQLITE3, and is now defined globally.

Changes to build system

The build system API has not changed since ns-3.36. Several bugs were fixed and behavioral improvements were made; see the RELEASE_NOTES for details.

Changed behavior

Apart from the bugs fixed (listed in the RELEASE_NOTES), the simulation model behavior should not have changed since ns-3.36.

Changes from ns-3.35 to ns-3.36

New API

• The helpers of the NetDevices supporting flow control (PointToPointHelper, CsmaHelper, SimpleNetDeviceHelper, WifiHelper) now provide a DisableFlowControl method to disable flow control. If flow control is disabled, the Traffic Control layer forwards packets down to the NetDevice even if there is no room for them in the NetDevice queue(s)
• Added a new trace source TcDrop in TrafficControlLayer for tracing packets that have been dropped because no queue disc is installed on the device, the device supports flow control and the device queue is full.
• Added a new class PhasedArraySpectrumPropagationLossModel, and its DoCalcRxPowerSpectralDensity function has two additional parameters: TX and RX antenna arrays. Should be inherited by models that need to know antenna arrays in order to calculate RX PSD.
• It is now possible to detach a SpectrumPhy object from a SpectrumChannel by calling SpectrumChannel::RemoveRx ().
• PhasedArrayModel has a new function GetId that returns a unique ID of each PhasedArrayModel instance.

Changes to existing API

• Support for Network Simulation Cradle (NSC) TCP has been removed.
• Support for PlanetLabFdNetDeviceHelper has been removed.
• ThreeGppSpectrumPropagationLossModel now inherits PhasedArraySpectrumPropagationLossModel. The modules that use ThreeGppSpectrumPropagationLossModel should implement SpectrumPhy::GetAntenna that will return the instance of PhasedArrayModel.
• AddDevice function is removed from ThreeGppSpectrumPropagationLossModel to support multiple arrays per device.
• SpectrumPhy function GetRxAntenna is renamed to GetAntenna, and its return value is changed to Ptr<Object> instead of Ptr<AntennaModel> to support also PhasedArrayModel type of antenna.
• vScatt attribute moved from ThreeGppSpectrumPropagationLossModel to ThreeGppChannelModel.
• ChannelCondition::IsEqual now has LOS and O2I parameters instead of a pointer to ChannelCondition.
• TcpWestwood::EstimatedBW trace source changed from TracedValueCallback::Double to TracedValueCallback::DataRate.
• The API for making changes to channel number, band, standard, and primary channel has been changed to use a new ChannelSettings attribute.

Changes to build system

• The Waf build system has been replaced by CMake and a Python program called 'n3' that provides a Waf-like API.
• g++ version 8 is now the minimum g++ compiler version supported.
• The default build profile has been changed from 'debug' to a new 'default'. Two key differences are that the new default has optimizations enabled (-O2 vs. previous -O0), and the -Werror flag is disabled. Select the 'debug' profile to disable optimizations and enable warnings as errors.

Changed behavior

• Wi-Fi: The default Wi-Fi standard is changed from 802.11a to 802.11ax, and the default rate control is changed from ArfWifiManager to IdealWifiManager.
• Wi-Fi: EDCAFs (QosTxop objects) are no longer installed on non-QoS STAs and DCF (Txop object) is no longer installed on QoS STAs.
• Wi-Fi: Management frames (Probe Request/Response, Association Request/Response) are sent by QoS STAs according to the 802.11 specs.
• The Frequency, ChannelNumber, ChannelWidth and Primary20MHzIndex attributes of WifiPhy can now only be used to get the corresponding values. Channel settings can be now configured through the ChannelSettings attribute. See the wifi model documentation for information on how to set this new attribute.
• UE handover now works with and without enabled CA (carrier aggregation) in inter-eNB, intra-eNB, inter-frequency and intra-frequency scenarios. Previously only inter-eNB intra-frequency handover was supported and only in non-CA scenarios.
• NixVectorRouting: NixVectorRouting can now better cope with topology changes. In-flight packets are not anymore causing crashes, and the path is dynamically rebuilt by intermediate routers (this happens only to packets in-flight during the topology change).
• Mesh (Wi-Fi) forwarding hops now have a configurable random variable-based forwarding delay model, with a default mean of 350 us.

Changes from ns-3.34 to ns-3.35

New API

• In class Ipv6Header, new functions SetSource (), SetDestination (), GetSource () and GetDestination () are added, consistent with Ipv4Header. The existing functions had "Address" suffix in each of the function names, and are are deprecated now.
• In class Ipv4InterfaceAddress, new functions SetAddress () and GetAddress () are added, corresponding to SetLocal () and GetLocal () respectively. This is done to keep consistency with Ipv4InterfaceAddress.
• With the new support for IPv6 Nix-Vector routing, we have all the new APIs corresponding to IPv4 Nix-Vector routing. Specific to the user, there is an Ipv6NixVectorHelper class which can be set in the InternetStackHelper, and works similar to Ipv4NixVectorHelper.
• In class Ipv4InterfaceAddress, a new function IsInSameSubnet () is added to check if both the IPv4 addresses are in the same subnet. Also, it is consistent with Ipv6InterfaceAddress::IsInSameSubnet ().
• In class ConfigStore, a new Attribue SaveDeprecated allows to not save DEPRECATED Attributes. The default value is false (save DEPRECATED Attributes).
• In class TracedCallback, a new function IsEmpty allows to know if the TracedCallback will call any callback.
• A new specialization of std::hash for Ptr allows one to use Ptrs as keys in unordered_map and unordered_set containers.
• A new GroupMobilityHelper mobility helper has been added to ease the configuration of group mobility (a form of hierarchical mobility in which multiple child mobility models move with reference to an underlying parent mobility model). New example programs and animation scripts are also added to both the buildings and mobility modules.

Changes to existing API

• In class Ipv6Header, the functions SetSourceAddress (), SetDestinationAddress (), GetSourceAddress () and GetDestinationAddress () are deprecated. New corresponding functions are added by removing the "Address" suffix. This change is made for having consistency with Ipv4Header.
• ipv4-nix-vector-helper.h and ipv4-nix-vector-routing.h have been deprecated in favour of nix-vector-helper.h and nix-vector-routing.h respectively.

Changes to build system

• The default C++ standard is now C++17.
• The minimum compiler versions have been raised to g++-7 and clang-10 (Linux) and Xcode 11 (macOS).

Changed behavior

• Nix-Vector routing supports topologies with multiple WiFi networks using the same WiFi channel object.
• ConfigStore no longer saves OBSOLETE attributes.
• The Ipv4L3Protocol Duplicate detection now accounts for transmitted packets, so a transmitting multicast node will not forward its own packets.
• Wi-Fi: A-MSDU aggregation now implies that constituent MSDUs are immediately dequeued from the EDCA queue and replaced by an MPDU containing the A-MSDU. Thus, aggregating N MSDUs triggers N dequeue operations and 1 enqueue operation on the EDCA queue.
• Wi-Fi: MPDUs being passed to the PHY layer for transmission are not dequeued, but are kept in the EDCA queue until they are acknowledged or discarded. Consequently, the BlockAckManager retransmit queue has been removed.

Changes from ns-3.33 to ns-3.34

New features and API

• Support for Wi-Fi 802.11ax downlink and uplink OFDMA, including multi-user OFDMA and a round-robin multi-user scheduler.
• FqCobalt queue disc with L4S features and set associative hash.
• FqPIE queue disc with L4S mode
• ThompsonSamplingWifiManager Wi-Fi rate control algorithm.
• New PhasedArrayModel, providing a flexible interface for modeling a number of Phase Antenna Array (PAA) models.
• Added the ability to configure the Wi-Fi primary 20 MHz channel for 802.11 devices operating on channels of width greater than 20 MHz.
• A TCP BBRv1 congestion control model.
• Improved support for bit fields in header serialization/deserialization.
• Support for IPv6 stateless address auto-configuration (SLAAC).

Changes to existing API

• The WifiAckPolicySelector class has been replaced by the WifiAckManager class. Correspondingly, the ConstantWifiAckPolicySelector has been replaced by the WifiDefaultAckManager class. A new WifiProtectionManager abstract base class and WifiDefaultProtectionManager concrete class have been added to implement different protection policies.
• The class ThreeGppAntennaArrayModel has been replaced by UniformPlanarArray, extending the PhasedArrayModel interface.
• The Angles struct is now a class, with robust setters and getters (public struct variables phi and theta are now private class variables m_azimuth and m_inclination), overloaded operator<< and operator>> and a number of utilities.
• AntennaModel child classes have been extended to produce 3D radiation patterns. Attributes such as Beamwidth have thus been separated into Vertical/HorizontalBeamwidth.
• The attribute UseVhtOnly in MinstrelHtWifiManager has been replaced by a new attribute called UseLatestAmendmentOnly.
• The wifi module has removed HT Greenfield support, Holland (802.11a-like) PHY configuration, and Point Coordination Function (PCF)
• The wifi ErrorRateModel API has been extended to support link-to-system models.
• Nix-Vector routing supports multiple interface addresses and can print out routing paths.
• The TxOkHeader and TxErrHeader trace sources of RegularWifiMac have been obsoleted and replaced by trace sources that better capture the result of a transmission: AckedMpdu (fired when an MPDU is successfully acknowledged, via either a Normal Ack or a Block Ack), NAckedMpdu (fired when an MPDU is negatively acknowledged via a Block Ack), DroppedMpdu (fired when an MPDU is dropped), MpduResponseTimeout (fired when a CTS is missing after an RTS or a Normal Ack is missing after an MPDU) and PsduResponseTimeout (fired when a BlockAck is missing after an A-MPDU or a BlockAckReq).

Changes to build system

• The handling of Boost library/header dependencies has been improved.

Changed behavior

• The default TCP congestion control has been changed from NewReno to CUBIC.
• The PHY layer of the wifi module has been refactored: the amendment-specific logic has been ported to PhyEntity classes and WifiPpdu classes.
• The MAC layer of the wifi module has been refactored. The MacLow class has been replaced by a hierarchy of FrameExchangeManager classes, each adding support for the frame exchange sequences introduced by a given amendment.
• The wifi BCC AWGN error rate tables have been aligned with the ones provided by MATLAB and users may note a few dB difference when using BCC at high SNR and high MCS.
• ThreeGppChannelModel has been fixed: cluster and sub-cluster angles could have been generated with inclination angles outside the inclination range [0, pi], and have now been constrained to the correct range.
• The LTE RLC Acknowledged Mode (AM) transmit buffer is now limited by default to a size of (1024 * 10) bytes. Configuration of unlimited behavior can still be made by passing the value of zero to the new attribute MaxTxBufferSize.

Changes from ns-3.32 to ns-3.33

New API

• A model for TCP CUBIC (RFC 8312) has been added.
• New channel models based on 3GPP TR 37.885 have been added to support vehicular simulations.
• Time::RoundTo (unit) allows time to be rounded to the nearest integer multiple of unit
• UdpClient now can report both transmitted and received bytes.
• A new MPI Enable() variant was introduced that takes a user-supplied MPI_Communicator, allowing for partitioning of the MPI processes.
• A Length class has been introduced to allow users to replace the use of raw numbers (ints, doubles) that have implicit lengths with a class that represents lengths with an explicit unit.
• A flexible CsvReader class has been introduced to allow users to read in csv- or tab-delimited data.
• The ListPositionAllocator can now input positions from a csv file.
• A new trace source for DCTCP alpha value has been added to TcpDctcp.
• A new TableBasedErrorRateModel has been added for Wi-Fi, and the default values are aligned with link-simulation results from MATLAB WLAN Toolbox and IEEE 802.11 TGn.
• A new LdpcSupported attribute has been added for Wi-Fi in HtConfiguration, in order to select LDPC FEC encoding instead of the default BCC FEC encoding.

Changes to existing API

• The signature of WifiPhy::PsduTxBeginCallback and WifiPhy::PhyTxPsduBegin have been changed to take a map of PSDUs instead of a single PSDU in order to support multi-users (MU) transmissions.
• The wifi trace WifiPhy::PhyRxBegin has been extended to report the received power for every band.
• The wifi trace WifiPhy::PhyRxBegin has been extended to report the received power for every band.
• New attributes SpectrumWifiPhy::TxMaskInnerBandMinimumRejection, SpectrumWifiPhy::TxMaskOuterBandMinimumRejection and SpectrumWifiPhy::TxMaskOuterBandMaximumRejection have been added to configure the OFDM transmit masks.

Changes to build system

• Waf has been upgraded to git development version waf-2.0.21-6-g60e3f5f4

Changed behavior

• The default Wi-Fi ErrorRateModel for the 802.11n/ac/ax standards has been changed from the NistErrorRateModel to a new TableBasedErrorRateModel. Users may experience a shift in Wi-Fi link range due to the new default error model, as the new model is more optimistic (the PER for a given MCS will degrade at a lower SNR value). The Wi-Fi module documentation provides plots that compare the performance of the NIST and new table-based model.
• The default value of the BerThreshold attribute in IdealWifiManager was changed from 1e-5 to 1e-6, so as to correct behavior with high order MCS.
• Time values that are created from an int64x64_t value are now rounded to the nearest integer multiple of the unit, rather than truncated. Issue #265 in the GitLab.com tracker describes the behavior that was fixed. Some Time values that rely on this conversion may have changed due to this fix.
• TCP now implements the Linux-like congestion window reduced (CWR) state when explicit congestion notification (ECN) is enabled.
• TcpDctcp now inherits from TcpLinuxReno, making its congestion avoidance track more closely to that of Linux.

Changes from ns-3.31 to ns-3.32

New API

• A new TCP congestion control, TcpLinuxReno, has been added.
• Added, to PIE queue disc, queue delay calculation using timestamp feature (Linux default behavior), cap drop adjustment feature (Section 5.5 of RFC 8033), ECN (Section 5.1 of RFC 8033) and derandomization feature (Section 5.4 of RFC 8033).
• Added L4S Mode to FqCoDel and CoDel queue discs
• A model for dynamic pacing has been added to TCP.
• Added Active/Inactive feature to PIE queue disc
• Added netmap and DPDK emulation device variants
• Added capability to configure STL pair and containers as attributes
• Added CartesianToGeographic coordinate conversion capability
• Added LollipopCounter, a sequence number counter type
• Added 6 GHz band support for Wi-Fi 802.11ax

Changes to existing API

• The Sifs, Slot and Pifs attributes have been moved from WifiMac to WifiPhy to better reflect that they are PHY characteristics, to decouple the MAC configuration from the PHY configuration and to ease the support for future standards.
• The Histogram class was moved from the flow-monitor module to the stats module to make it more easily accessed. If you previously used Histogram by by including flow-monitor.h you will need to change that to stats-module.h.
• The WifiHelper::SetStandard (WifiPhyStandard standard) method no longer takes a WifiPhyStandard enum, but instead takes a similarly named WifiStandard enum. If before you specified a value such as WIFI_PHY_STANDARD_xxx, now you must specify WIFI_STANDARD_xxx.
• The YansWifiPhyHelper::Default and SpectrumWifiPhyHelper::Default methods have been removed; the default constructors may instead by used.
• PIE queue disc now uses Timestamp for queue delay calculation as default instead of Dequeue Rate Estimator

Changes to build system

• Added "--enable-asserts" and "--enable-logs" to waf configure, to selectively enable asserts and/or logs in release and optimized builds.
• A build version reporting system has been added by extracting data from the local git repository (or a standalone file if a git repository is not present).
• Added support for EditorConfig

Changed behavior

• Support for RIFS has been dropped from wifi. RIFS has been obsoleted by the 802.11 standard and support for it was not implemented according to the standard.
• The default loss recovery algorithm for TCP has been changed from Classic Recovery to Proportional Rate Reduction (PRR).
• The behavior of TcpPrrRecovery algorithm was aligned to that of Linux.
• PIE queue disc now uses Timestamp for queue delay calculation as default instead of Dequeue Rate Estimator
• TCP pacing, when enabled, now adjusts the rate dynamically based on the window size, rather than just enforcing a constant rate.
• WifiPhy forwards up MPDUs from an A-MPDU under reception as long as they arrive at the PHY, instead of forwarding up the whole A-MPDU once its reception is completed.
• The ns-3 TCP model was changed to set the initial congestion window to 10 segments instead of 1 segment (to align with default Linux configuration).

Changes from ns-3.30 to ns-3.31

New API

• A TCP DCTCP model has been added.

• 3GPP TR 38.901 pathloss, channel condition, antenna array, and fast fading models have been added.

• New ...FailSafe () variants of the Config and Config::MatchContainer functions which set Attributes or connect TraceSources. These all return a boolean indicating if any attributes could be set (or trace sources connected). These are useful if you are not sure that the requested objects exist, for example in AnimationInterface.

• New attributes for Ipv4L3Protocol have been added to enable RFC 6621-based duplicate packet detection (DPD) (EnableDuplicatePacketDetection) and to control the cache expiration time (DuplicateExpire).

• MakeConsistent method of BuildingsHelper class is deprecated and moved to MobilityBuildingInfo class. DoInitialize method of the MobilityBuildingInfo class would be responsible for making the mobility model of a node consistent at the beginning of a simulation. Therefore, there is no need for an explicit call to MakeConsistent in a simulation script.

• The IsInside method of MobilityBuildingInfo class is extended to make the mobility model of a moving node consistent.

• The IsOutside method of MobilityBuildingInfo class is deprecated. The IsInside method should be use to check the position of a node.

• A new abstract base class, WifiAckPolicySelector, is introduced to implement different techniques for selecting the acknowledgment policy for PSDUs containing QoS Data frames. Wifi, mesh and wave helpers provide a SetAckPolicySelectorForAc method to configure a specific ack policy selector for a given Access Category.

• The default ack policy selector is named ConstantWifiAckPolicySelector, which allows to choose between Block Ack policy and Implicit Block Ack Request policy and allows to request an acknowledgment after a configurable number of MPDUs have been transmitted.

• The MaxSize attribute is removed from the QueueBase base class and moved to subclasses. A new MaxSize attribute is therefore added to the DropTailQueue class, while the MaxQueueSize attribute of the WifiMacQueue class is renamed as MaxSize for API consistency.

• Two new Application sequence number and timestamp variants have been added, to support packet delivery tracing.

  • A new sequence and timestamp header variant for applications has been added. The SeqTsEchoHeader contains an additional timestamp field for use in echoing a timestamp back to a sender.
  • TCP-based applications (OnOffApplication, BulkSendApplication, and PacketSink) support a new header, SeqTsSizeHeader, to convey sequence number, timestamp, and size data. Use is controlled by the "EnableSeqTsSizeHeader" attribute.

• Added a new trace source PhyRxPayloadBegin in WifiPhy for tracing begin of PSDU reception.

• Added the class RandomWalk2dOutdoorMobilityModel that models a random walk which does not enter any building.

• Added support for the Cake set-associative hash in the FqCoDel queue disc

• Added support for ECN marking for CoDel and FqCoDel queue discs

Changes to existing API

• The API for enabling and disabling ECN in TCP sockets has been refactored.
• The LTE HARQ related methods in LteEnbPhy and LteUePhy have been renamed, and the LteHelper updated.
• Previously the Config::Connect and Config::Set families of functions would fail silently if the attribute or trace source didn't exist on the path given (typically due to spelling errors). Now those functions will throw a fatal error. If you need the old behavior use the new ...FailSafe () variants.
• The internal TCP API for TcpCongestionOps has been extended to support the CongControl method to allow for delivery rate estimation feedback to the congestion control mechanism.
• Functions LteEnbPhy::ReceiveUlHarqFeedback and LteUePhy::ReceiveLteDlHarqFeedback are renamed to LteEnbPhy::ReportUlHarqFeedback and LteUePhy::EnqueueDlHarqFeedback, respectively to avoid confusion about their functionality. LteHelper is updated accordingly.
• Now on, instead of uint8_t, uint16_t would be used to store a bandwidth value in LTE.
• The preferred way to declare instances of CommandLine is now through a macro: COMMANDLINE (cmd). This enables us to add the CommandLine::Usage() message to the Doxygen for the program.
• New ...FailSafe () variants of the Config is used to connect PDCP TraceSources of eNB and UE in RadioBearerStatsConnector class. It is required for the simulations using RLC SM where PDCP objects are not created for data radio bearers.
• T310 timer in LteUeRrc class is stopped if the UE receives RRCConnectionReconfiguration including the mobilityControlInfo. This change is introduced following the 3GPP standard TS36331 sec 5.3.5.4.
• The wifi High Latency tags have been removed. The only rate manager (Onoe) that was making use of them has been refactored.
• The wifi MIMO diversity model has been changed to better fit with MRC theory for AWGN channels when STBC is not used (since STBC is currently not supported).
• The BuildingsHelper::MakeMobilityModelConsistent() method is deprecated in favor of MobilityBuildingInfo::MakeConsistent
• The MobilityBuildingInfo::IsOutdoor () method is deprecated; use the result of IsIndoor() method instead
• IsEqual() methods of class Ipv4Address, Ipv4Mask, Ipv6Address, and Ipv6Prefix are deprecated.
• The API around the wifi Txop class was refactored.

Changes to build system

• The --lcov-report option to Waf was fixed, and a new --lcov-zerocounters option was added to improve support for lcov.
• Python bindings were enabled for netanim.

Changed behavior

• The EmpiricalRandomVariable no longer linearly interpolates between values by default, but instead will default to treating the CDF as a histogram and return one of the specific inputs. The previous interpolation mode can be configured by an attribute.
• (as reported above) previously the Config::Connect and Config::Set families of functions would fail silently if the attribute or trace source didn't exist on the path given (typically due to spelling errors). Now those functions will throw a fatal error. If you need the old behavior use the new ...FailSafe () variants.
• Attempting to deserialize an enum name which wasn't registered with MakeEnumChecker now causes a fatal error, rather failing silently. (This can be triggered by setting an enum Attribute from a StringValue.)
• As a result of the above API changes in MobilityBuildingInfo and BuildingsHelper classes, a building aware pathloss models, e.g., HybridBuildingsPropagationLossModel is now able to accurately compute the pathloss for a node moving in and out of buildings in a simulation. See issue 80 for discussion.
• The implementation of the Wi-Fi channel access functions has been improved to make them more conformant to the IEEE 802.11-2016 standard. Concerning the DCF, the backoff procedure is no longer invoked when a packet is queued for transmission and the medium has not been idle for a DIFS, but it is invoked if the medium is busy or does not remain idle for a DIFS after the packet has been queued. Concerning the EDCAF, tranmissions are now correctly aligned at slot boundaries.
• Various wifi physical layer behavior around channel occupancy calculation, phy state calculation, and handling different channel widths has been updated.

Changes from ns-3.29 to ns-3.30

New API

• Added the attribute Release to the class EpsBearer, to select the release (e.g., release 15)
• The attributes RegularWifiMac::HtSupported, RegularWifiMac::VhtSupported, RegularWifiMac::HeSupported, RegularWifiMac::RifsSupported, WifiPhy::ShortGuardEnabled, WifiPhy::GuardInterval and WifiPhy::GreenfieldEnabled have been deprecated. Instead, it is advised to use WifiNetDevice::HtConfiguration, WifiNetDevice::VhtConfiguration and WifiNetDevice::HeConfiguration.
• The attributes {Ht,Vht,He}Configuration::{Vo,Vi,Be,Bk}MaxAmsduSize and {Ht,Vht,He}Configuration::{Vo,Vi,Be,Bk}MaxAmpduSize have been removed. Instead, it is necessary to use RegularWifiMac::{VO, VI, BE, BK}_MaxAmsduSize and RegularWifiMac::{VO, VI, BE, BK}_MaxAmpduSize.
• A new attribute WifiPhy::PostReceptionErrorModel has been added to force specific packet drops.
• A new attribute WifiPhy::PreambleDetectionModel has been added to decide whether PHY preambles are successfully detected.
• New attributes QosTxop::AddBaResponseTimeout and QosTxop::FailedAddBaTimeout have been added to set the timeout to wait for an ADDBA response after the ACK to the ADDBA request is received and to set the timeout after a failed BA agreement, respectively.
• A new attribute QosTxop::UseExpliciteBarAfterMissedBlockAck has been added to specify whether explicit Block Ack Request should be sent upon missed Block Ack Response.
• Added a new trace source EndOfHePreamble in WifiPhy for tracing end of preamble (after training fields) for received 802.11ax packets.
• Added a new helper method to SpectrumWifiPhyHelper and YansWifiPhyHelper to set the frame capture model.
• Added a new helper method to SpectrumWifiPhyHelper and YansWifiPhyHelper to set the preamble detection model.
• Added a new helper method to WifiPhyHelper to disable the preamble detection model.
• Added a method to ObjectFactory to check whether a TypeId has been configured on the factory.
• Added a new helper method to WifiHelper to set the 802.11ax OBSS PD spatial reuse algorithm.
• Added the Cobalt queuing discipline.
• Added Simulator::GetEventCount () to return the number of events executed.
• Added ShowProgress object to display simulation progress statistics.
• Add option to disable explicit Block Ack Request when a Block Ack Response is missed.
• Add API to be able to tag a subset of bytes in an ns3::Packet.
• New LTE helper API has been added to allow users to configure LTE backhaul links with any link technology, not just point-to-point links.

Changes to existing API

• Added the possibility of setting the z coordinate for many position-allocation classes: GridPositionAllocator, RandomRectanglePositionAllocator, RandomDiscPositionAllocator, UniformDiscPositionAllocator.
• The WifiPhy attribute CcaMode1Threshold has been renamed to CcaEdThreshold, and the WifiPhy attribute EnergyDetectionThreshold has been replaced by a new attribute called RxSensitivity.
• It is now possible to know the size of the SpectrumValue underlying std::vector, as well as accessing read-only every element of it.
• The GetClosestSide method of the Rectangle class returns the correct closest side also for positions outside the rectangle.
• The trace sources BackoffTrace and CwTrace were moved from class QosTxop to base class Txop, allowing these values to be traced for DCF operation. In addition, the trace signature for BackoffTrace was changed from TracedValue to TracedCallback (callback taking one argument instead of two). Most users of CwTrace for QosTxop configurations will not need to change existing programs, but users of BackoffTrace will need to adjust the callback signature to match.
• New trace sources, namely DrbCreated, Srb1Created and DrbCreated have beed implemented in LteEnbRrc and LteUeRrc classes repectively. These new traces are used to improve the connection of the RLC and PDCP stats in the RadioBearerStatsConnector API.
• TraceFadingLossModel has been moved from lte to spectrum module.

Changes to build system

• ns-3 now only supports Python 3. Use of Python 2 can be forced using the --with-python option provided to './waf configure', and may still work for many cases, but is no longer supported. Waf does not default to Python 3 but the ns-3 wscript will default the build to Python 3.
• Waf upgraded from 2.0.9 to 2.0.18.
• Options to run a program through Waf without invoking a project rebuild have been added. The command './waf --run-no-build ' parallels the behavior of './waf --run ' and, likewise, the command './waf --pyrun-no-build' parallels the behavior of './waf --pyrun '.

Changed behavior

• The wifi ADDBA handshake process is now protected with the use of two timeouts who makes sure we do not end up in a blocked situation. If the handshake process is not established, packets that are in the queue are sent as normal MPDUs. Once handshake is successfully established, A-MPDUs can be transmitted.

• In the wifi module, the default value of the Margin attribute in SimpleFrameCaptureModel was changed from 10 to 5 dB.

• A ThresholdPreambleDetectionModel is added by default to the WifiPhy. Using default values, this model will discard frames that fall below either -82 dBm RSSI or below 4 dB SNR. Users may notice that weak wifi signals that were successfully received based on the error model alone (in previous ns-3 releases) are no longer received. Previous behavior can be obtained by lowering both threshold values or by removing the preamble detection model (via WifiPhyHelper::DisablePreambleDetectionModel()).

• The PHY model for Wi-Fi has been extended to handle reception of L-SIG and reception of non-legacy header differently.

• LTE/EPC model has been enhanced to allow the simulation user to test more realistic topologies related to the core network:

• SGW, PGW and MME are full nodes.

• There are P2P links between core network nodes.

• New S5 interface between SGW and PGW nodes based on GTPv2-C protocol.

• Allow simulations with multiple SGWs and PGWs.

• LTE eNB RRC is extended to support:

• S1 signalling with the core network is initiated after the RRC connection establishment procedure is finished.

• New ATTACH_REQUEST state to wait for finalization of the S1 signalling with the core network.

• New InitialContextSetupRequest primitive of the S1 SAP that is received by the eNB RRC when the S1 signalling from the core network is finished.

• A new buffer has been introduced in the LteEnbRrc class. This buffer will be used by a target eNB during handover to buffer the packets comming from a source eNB on X2 inteface. The target eNB will buffer this data until it receives RRC Connection Reconfiguration Complete from a UE.

• The default qdisc installed on single-queue devices (such as PointToPoint, Csma and Simple) is now FqCoDel (instead of PfifoFast). On multi-queue devices (such as Wifi), the default root qdisc is now Mq with as many FqCoDel child qdiscs as the number of device queues. The new defaults are motivated by the willingness to align with the behavior of major Linux distributions and by the need to preserve the effectiveness of Wifi EDCA Functions in differentiating Access Categories (see issue #35).

• LTE RLC TM mode does not report anymore the layer-to-layer delay, as it misses (by standard) an header to which attach the timestamp tag. Users can switch to the PDCP layer delay measurements, which must be the same.

• Token Bank Fair Queue Scheduler (ns3::FdTbfqFfMacScheduler) will not anymore schedule a UE, which does not have any RBG left after removng the RBG from its allocation map if the computed TB size is greater than the "budget" computed in the scheduler.

• LTE module now supports the Radio Link Failure (RLF) functionality. This implementation introduced following key behavioral changes:

  • The UE RRC state will not remain in "CONNECTED_NORMALLY" state if the DL control channel SINR is below a set threshold.
  • The LTE RRC protocol APIs of UE i.e., LteUeRrcProtocolIdeal, LteUeRrcProtocolReal have been extended to send an ideal (i.e., using SAPs instead to transmitting over the air) UE context remove request to the eNB. Similarly, the eNB RRC protocol APIs, i.e, LteEnbRrcProtocolIdeal and LteEnbRrcProtocolReal have been extended to receive this ideal UE context remove request.
  • The UE will not synchronize to a cell whose RSRP is less than -140 dBm.
  • The non-contention based preambles during a handover are re-assigning to an UE only if it has not been assign to another UE (An UE can be using the preamble even after the expiryTime duration).
  • The RachConfigCommon structure in LteRrcSap API has been extended to include "TxFailParam". This new field would enable an eNB to indicate how many times T300 timer can expire at the UE. Upon reaching this count, the UE aborts the connection establishment, and performs the cell selection again. See TS 36.331 5.3.3.6.
  • The timer T300 in LteUeRrc class is now bounded by the standard min and max values defined in 3GPP TS 36.331.

Changes from ns-3.28 to ns-3.29

New API

• CommandLine can now handle non-option (positional) arguments.
• Added CommandLine::Parse (const std::vector> args)
• NS_LOG_FUNCTION can now log the contents of vectors
• A new position allocator has been added to the buildings module, allowing nodes to be placed outside of buildings defined in the scenario.
• The Hash() method has been added to the QueueDiscItem class to compute the hash of various fields of the packet header (depending on the packet type).
• Added a priority queue disc (PrioQueueDisc).
• Added 3GPP HTTP model
• Added TCP PRR as recovery algorithm
• Added a new trace source in StaWifiMac for tracing beacon arrivals
• Added a new helper method to ApplicationContainer to start applications with some jitter around the start time
• (network) Add a method to check whether a node with a given ID is within a NodeContainer.

Changes to existing API

• TrafficControlHelper::Install now only includes root queue discs in the returned QueueDiscContainer.

• Recovery algorithms are now in a different class, instead of being tied to TcpSocketBase. Take a look to TcpRecoveryOps for more information.

• The Mode, MaxPackets and MaxBytes attributes of the Queue class, that had been deprecated in favor of the MaxSize attribute in ns-3.28, have now been removed and cannot be used anymore. Likewise, the methods to get/set the old attributes have been removed as well. Commands such as:

  Config::SetDefault ("ns3::QueueBase::MaxPackets", UintegerValue (4));
  

  should now be written as:

  Config::SetDefault ("ns3::QueueBase::MaxSize", QueueSizeValue (QueueSize (QueueSizeUnit::PACKETS, 4)));
  

  or with a string value with 'b' (bytes) or 'p' (packets) suffix, such as:

  Config::SetDefault ("ns3::QueueBase::MaxSize", StringValue ("4p"));
  

• The Limit attribute of the PfifoFastQueueDisc class, that had been deprecated in favor of the MaxSize attribute in ns-3.28, has now been removed and cannot be used anymore. Likewise, the methods to get/set the old Limit attribute have been removed as well. The GetMaxSize/SetMaxSize methods of the base QueueDisc class must be used instead.

• The Mode, MaxPackets and MaxBytes attributes of the CoDelQueueDisc class, that had been deprecated in favor of the MaxSize attribute in ns-3.28, have now been removed and cannot be used anymore. Likewise, the methods to get/set the old attributes have been removed as well. The GetMaxSize/SetMaxSize methods of the base QueueDisc class must be used instead.

• The PacketLimit attribute of the FqCoDelQueueDisc class, that had been deprecated in favor of the MaxSize attribute in ns-3.28, has now been removed and cannot be used anymore. Likewise, the methods to get/set the old PacketLimit attribute have been removed as well. The GetMaxSize/SetMaxSize methods of the base QueueDisc class must be used instead.

• The Mode and QueueLimit attributes of the PieQueueDisc class, that had been deprecated in favor of the MaxSize attribute in ns-3.28, have now been removed and cannot be used anymore. Likewise, the methods to get/set the old attributes have been removed as well. The GetMaxSize/SetMaxSize methods of the base QueueDisc class must be used instead.

• The Mode and QueueLimit attributes of the RedQueueDisc class, that had been deprecated in favor of the MaxSize attribute in ns-3.28, have now been removed and cannot be used anymore. Likewise, the methods to get/set the old attributes have been removed as well. The GetMaxSize/SetMaxSize methods of the base QueueDisc class must be used instead.

• Several traffic generating applications have additional trace sources that export not only the transmitted or received packet but also the source and destination addresses.

• The returned type of GetNDevices methods in Channel and subclasses derived from it were changed from uint32_t to std::size_t. Likewise, the input parameter type of GetDevice in Channel and its subclasses were changed from uint32_t to std::size_t.

• Wifi classes DcfManager, DcaTxop and EdcaTxopN were renamed to ChannelAccessManager, Txop and QosTxop, respectively.

• QueueDisc::DequeuePeeked has been merged into QueueDisc::Dequeue and hence no longer exists.

• The QueueDisc base class now provides a default implementation of the DoPeek private method based on the QueueDisc::PeekDequeue method, which is now no longer available.

• The QueueDisc::SojournTime trace source is changed from a TracedValue to a TracedCallback; callbacks that hook this trace must provide one ns3::Time argument, not two.

• To avoid the code duplication in SingleModelSpectrumChannel and MultiModelSpectrumChannel classes, the attributes MaxLossDb and PropagationLossModel, and the traces PathLoss and TxSigParams are moved to the base class SpectrumChannel. Similarly, the functions AddPropagationLossModel, AddSpectrumPropagationLossModel, SetPropagationDelayModel and GetSpectrumPropagationLossModel are now defined in SpectrumChannel class. Moreover, the TracedCallback signature of LossTracedCallback has been updated from :

   typedef void (\* LossTracedCallback) (Ptr<SpectrumPhy> txPhy, Ptr<SpectrumPhy> rxPhy, double lossDb);
  

  To :

   typedef void (\* LossTracedCallback) (Ptr<const SpectrumPhy> txPhy, Ptr<const SpectrumPhy> rxPhy, double lossDb);
  

• For the sake of LTE module API consistency the IPV6 related functions AssignUeIpv6Address and GetUeDefaultGatewayAddress6 are now declared in EpcHelper base class. Thus, these functions are now declared as virtual in the child classes, i.e., EmuEpcHelper and PointToPointEpcHelper.

Changes to build system

• Waf upgraded from 1.8.19 to 2.0.9, and ns-3 build scripts aligned to the new API.
• The '--no32bit-scan' argument is removed from Waf apiscan; generation of ILP32 bindings is now automated from the LP64 bindings.
• When using on newer compilers, new warnings may trigger build failures. The --disable-werror flag can be passed to Waf at configuration time to turn off the Werror behavior.
• GTK+3 libraries (including PyGObject, GooCanvas2) are needed for the Pyviz visualizer, replacing GTK+2 libraries.

Changed behavior

• FqCoDelQueueDisc now computes the hash of the packet's 5-tuple to determine the flow the packet belongs to, unless a packet filter has been configured. The previous behavior is simply obtained by not configuring any packet filter. Consequently, the FqCoDelIpv{4,6}PacketFilter classes have been removed.
• ARP packets now pass through the traffic control layer, as in Linux.
• The maximum size UDP packet of the UdpClient application is no longer limited to 1500 bytes.
• The default values of the MaxSlrc and FragmentationThreshold attributes in WifiRemoteStationManager were changed from 7 to 4 and from 2346 to 65535, respectively.

Changes from ns-3.27 to ns-3.28

New API

• When deserializing Packet contents, Header::Deserialize (Buffer::Iterator start) and Trailer::Deserialize (Buffer::Iterator start) can not successfully deserialize variable-length headers and trailers. New variants of these methods that also include an 'end' parameter are now provided.
• Ipv[4,6]AddressGenerator can now check if an address is allocated (Ipv[4,6]AddressGenerator::IsAddressAllocated) or a network has some allocated address (Ipv[4,6]AddressGenerator::IsNetworkAllocated).
• LTE UEs can now use IPv6 to send and receive traffic.
• UAN module now supports an IP stack.
• Class TcpSocketBase trace source CongestionWindowInflated shows the values with the in-recovery inflation and the post-recovery deflation.
• Added a FIFO queue disc (FifoQueueDisc) and the Token Bucket Filter (TbfQueueDisc).

Changes to existing API

• Class LrWpanMac now supports extended addressing mode. Both McpsDataRequest and PdDataIndication methods will now use extended addressing if McpsDataRequestParams::m_srcAddrMode or McpsDataRequestParams::m_dstAddrMode are set to EXT_ADDR.
• Class LteUeNetDevice MAC address is now a 64-bit address and can be set during construction.
• Class TcpSocketBase trace source CongestionWindow shows the values without the in-recovery inflation and the post-recovery deflation; the old behavior has been moved to the new trace source CongestionWindowInflated.
• The Mode, MaxPackets and MaxBytes attributes of the Queue class have been deprecated in favor of the MaxSize attribute. Old attributes can still be used, but using them will be no longer possible in one of the next releases. The methods to get/set the old attributes will be removed as well.
• The attributes of the QueueDisc subclasses that separately determine the mode and the limit of the QueueDisc have been deprecated in favor of the single MaxSize attribute.
• The GetQueueSize method of some QueueDisc subclasses (e.g., RED) has been removed and replaced by the GetCurrentSize method of the QueueDisc base class.

Changes to build system

• The C++ standard used during compilation (default std=c++11) can be now be changed via the CXXFLAGS variable.

Changed behavior

• All Wi-Fi management frames are now transmitted using the lowest basic rate.
• The Wi-Fi spectrum model now takes into account adjacent channels through OFDM transmit spectrum masks.
• The CsmaNetDevice::PhyTxBeginTrace will trace all attempts to transmit, even those that result in drops. Previously, eventual channel drops were excluded from this trace.
• The TCP congestion window trace now does not report on window inflation during fast recovery phase because it is no longer internally maintained as an inflated value (a separate trace called CongestionWindowInflated can be used to recover the old trace behavior).

Changes from ns-3.26 to ns-3.27

New API

• Added Vector{2,3}D.GetLength ().

• Overloaded operator+ and operator- for Vector{2,3}D.

• Added iterator version of WifiHelper::Install() to install Wi-Fi devices on range of nodes.

• Added a new attribute in TcpSocketBase to track the advertised window.

• Included the model of TCP Ledbat.

• Included the TCP SACK-based loss recovery algorithm outlined in RFC 6675.

• Added TCP SACK and the SACK emulation. Added an Attribute to TcpSocketBase class, called "Sack", to enable or disable the SACK option usage.

• In 'src/wifi', several changes were made to enable partial 802.11ax High Efficiency (HE) support:

  • A new standard value has been added that enables the new 11ax data rates.
  • A new 11ax preamble has been added.
  • A new attribute was added to configure the guard interval duration for High Efficiency (HE) PHY entities. This attribute can be set using the YansWifiPhyHelper.
  • A new information element has been added: HeCapabilities. This information element is added to the MAC frame header if the node is a HE node. This HeCapabilites information element is used to advertise the HE capabilities of the node to other nodes in the network.

• A new class were added for the RRPAA WiFi rate control mechanism.

• Included carrier aggregation feature in LTE module

• LTE model is extended to support carrier aggregation feature according to 3GPP Release 10, for up to 5 component carriers.

• InstallSingleEnbDevice and InstalSingeUeDevice functions of LteHelper are now constructing LteEnbDevice and LteUeDevice according to CA architecture. Each device, UE and eNodeB contains an instance of component carrier manager, and may have several component carrier instances.

• SAP interfaces are extended to include CA message exchange functionality.

• RRC connection procedure is extended to allow RRC connection reconfiguration for the configuration of the secondary carriers.

• RRC measurement reporting is extended to allow measurement reporting from the secondary carriers.

• LTE traces are extended to include component carrier id.

• Function PrintRoutingTable has been extended to add an optional Time::Units parameter to specify the time units used on the report. The new parameter is optional and if not specified defaults to the previous behavior (Time::S).

• TxopTrace: new trace source exported by EdcaTxopN.

• A GetDscpCounts method is added to Ipv4FlowClassifier and Ipv6FlowClassifier which returns a vector of pairs (dscp,count), each of which indicates how many packets with the associated dscp value have been classified for a given flow.

• MqQueueDisc, a multi-queue aware queue disc modelled after the mq qdisc in Linux, has been introduced.

• Two new methods, QueueDisc::DropBeforeEnqueue() and QueueDisc::DropAfterDequeue() have been introduced to replace QueueDisc::Drop(). These new methods require the caller to specify the reason why a packet was dropped. Correspondingly, two new trace sources ("DropBeforeEnqueue" and "DropAfterDequeue") have been added to the QueueDisc class, providing both the items that were dropped and the reason why they were dropped.

• Added QueueDisc::GetStats() which returns detailed statistics about the operations of a queue disc. Statistics can be accessed through the member variables of the returned object and by calling the GetNDroppedPackets(), GetNDroppedBytes(), GetNMarkedPackets() and GetNMarkedBytes() methods on the returned object. Such methods return the number of packets/bytes dropped/marked for the specified reason (passed as argument). Consequently:

  • A number of methods of the QueueDisc class have been removed: GetTotalReceivedPackets(), GetTotalReceivedBytes(), GetTotalDroppedPackets(), GetTotalDroppedBytes(), GetTotalRequeuedPackets(), GetTotalRequeuedBytes().
  • The Stats struct and the GetStats() method of RedQueueDisc and PieQueueDisc have been removed and replaced by those of the QueueDisc base class.
  • The GetDropOverLimit and GetDropCount methods of CoDelQueueDisc have been removed. The values they returned can be obtained by calling, respectively, GetStats ().GetNDroppedPackets (CoDelQueueDisc::OVERLIMIT_DROP) and GetStats ().GetNDroppedPackets (CoDelQueueDisc::TARGET_EXCEEDED_DROP). The "DropCount" trace of CoDelQueueDisc has been removed as well. Packets dropped because the target is exceeded can be obtained through the new "DropAfterDequeue" trace of the QueueDisc class.

• The new QueueDisc::Mark() method has been introduced to allow subclasses to request to mark a packet. The caller must specify the reason why the packet must be marked. Correspondingly, a new trace source ("Mark") has been added to the QueueDisc class, providing both the items that were marked and the reason why they were marked.

• A new trace source, SojournTime, is exported by the QueueDisc base class to provide the sojourn time of every packet dequeued from a queue disc. This has been made possible by adding a timestamp to QueueDiscItem objects, which can be set/get through the new GetTimeStamp() and SetTimeStamp() methods of the QueueDiscItem class. The CoDel queue disc now makes use of such feature of the base class, hence its Sojourn trace source and the CoDelTimestampTag class have been removed.

Changes to existing API

• ParetoRandomVariable "Mean" attribute has been deprecated, the "Scale" Attribute have to be used instead. Changing the Mean attribute has no more an effect on the distribution. See the documentation for the relationship between Mean, Scale and Shape.

• The default logging timestamp precision has been changed from 6 digits to 9 digits, with a fixed format to ensure that 9 digits to the right of the decimal point are always printed. Previously, default C++ iostream precision and formatting was used.

• Abstract base class WifiChannel has been removed. As a result, a Channel type instead of a WifiChannel type is now exported by WifiNetDevice.

• The GetPacketSize method of QueueItem has been renamed GetSize

• The DequeueAll method of Queue has been renamed Flush

• The attributes WifiPhy::TxAntennas and WifiPhy::RxAntennas, and the related accessor methods, were replaced by WifiPhy::MaxSupportedTxSpatialStreams and WifiPhy::MaxSupportedRxSpatialStreams. A new attribute WifiPhy::Antennas was added to allow users to define the number of physical antennas on the device.

• Sockets do not receive anymore broadcast packets, unless they are bound to an "Any" address (0.0.0.0) or to a subnet-directed broadcast packet (e.g., x.y.z.0 for a /24 noterok). As in Linux, the following rules are now enforced:

  • A socket bound to 0.0.0.0 will receive everything.
  • A socket bound to x.y.z.0/24 will receive subnet-directed broadcast (x.y.z.255) and unicast packets.
  • A socket bound to x.y.z.w will only receive unicast packets.

  Previously, a socket bound to an unicast address received also subnet-directed broadcast packets. This is not anymore possible.

• You can now Bind as many socket as you want to an address/port, provided that they are bound to different NetDevices. Moreover, BindToNetDevice does not anymore call Bind. In other terms, Bind and BindToNetDevice can be called in any order. However, it is suggested to use BindToNetDevice before Bind in order to avoid conflicts.

Changes to build system

• The API scanning process for Python bindings now relies on CastXML, and only 64-bit scans are presently supported (Linux 64-bit systems). Generation of 32-bit scans is documented in the Python chapter of the ns-3 manual.
• Modules can now be located in the 'contrib/' directory in addition to 'src/'
• Behavior for running Python programs was aligned with that of C++ programs; the list of modules built is no longer printed out.

Changed behavior

• MultiModelSpectrumChannel does not call StartRx for receivers that operate on subbands orthogonal to transmitter subbands. Models that depend on receiving signals with zero power spectral density from orthogonal bands may change their behavior. See bug 2467 for discussion.
• Packet Tag objects are no longer constrained to fit within 21 bytes; a maximum size is no longer enforced.
• The default value of the TxGain and RxGain attributes in WifiPhy was changed from 1 dB to 0 dB.
• The reported SNR by WifiPhy::MonitorSnifferRx did not include the RxNoiseFigure, but now does; see bug 2783 for discussion.
• Queue has been redesigned as a template class object, where the type parameter specifies the type of items to be stored in the queue. As a consequence:
  • Being a subclass of Queue, DropTailQueue is a template class as well.
  • Network devices such as SimpleNetDevice, PointToPointNetDevice and CsmaNetDevice use a queue of type Queue to store the packets to transmit. The SetQueue method of their helpers, however, can still be invoked as, e.g., SetQueue ("ns3::DropTailQueue") instead of, e.g., SetQueue ("ns3::DropTailQueue").
  • The attributes Mode, MaxPackets and MaxBytes are now defined by the QueueBase class (which Queue is derived from).
• Queue discs that can operate both in packet mode and byte mode (Red, CoDel, Pie) define their own enum QueueDiscMode instead of using QueueBase::QueueMode.
• The CoDel, PIE and RED queue discs require that the size of the internal queue is the same as the queue disc limit (previously, it was allowed to be greater than or equal).
• The default value of the EnableBeaconJitter attribute in ApWifiMac was changed from false to true.
• The NormalClose() callback of a TcpSocket object used to fire upon leaving TIME_WAIT state (2*MSL after FINs have been exchanged). It now fires upon entering TIME_WAIT state. Timing of the callback for the other path to state CLOSED (through LAST_ACK) has not been changed.

Changes from ns-3.25 to ns-3.26

New API

• A SocketPriorityTag is introduced to carry the packet priority. Such a tag is added to packets by sockets that support this mechanism (UdpSocketImpl, TcpSocketBase and PacketSocket). The base class Socket has a new SetPriority method to set the socket priority. When the IPv4 protocol is used, the priority is set based on the ToS. See the Socket options section of the Network model for more information.
• A WifiNetDevice::SelectQueue method has been added to determine the user priority of an MSDU. This method is called by the traffic control layer before enqueuing a packet in the queue disc, if a queue disc is installed on the outgoing device, or passing a packet to the device, otherwise. The user priority is set to the three most significant bits of the DS field (TOS field in case of IPv4 and Traffic Class field in case of IPv6). The packet priority carried by the SocketPriorityTag is set to the user priority.
• The PfifoFastQueueDisc classifies packets into bands based on their priority. See the pfifo_fast queue disc section of the Traffic Control Layer model for more information.
• A new class SpectrumWifiPhy has been introduced that makes use of the Spectrum module. Its functionality and API is currently very similar to that of the YansWifiPhy, especially because it reuses the same InterferenceHelper and ErrorModel classes (for this release). Some example programs in the 'examples/wireless/' directory, such as 'wifi-spectrum-per-example.cc', illustrate how the SpectrumWifiPhy class can be substituted for the default YansWifiPhy PHY model.
• We have added support for generating traces for the DES Metrics project. These can be enabled by adding --enable-des-metrics at configuration; you must also use CommandLine in your script. See the API docs for class DesMetrics for more details.
• The traffic control module now includes the FQ-CoDel and PIE queue disc models, and behavior corresponding to Linux Byte Queue Limits (BQL).
• Several new TCP congestion control variants were introduced, including TCP Vegas, Scalable, Veno, Illinois, Bic, YeAH, and H-TCP congestion control algorithms.

Changes to existing API

• SocketAddressTag was a long-standing approach to approximate the POSIX socket recvfrom behavior (i.e., to know the source address of a packet) without actually calling RecvFrom. Experience with this revealed that this option was difficult to use with tunnels (the new tag has to replace the old one). Moreover, there is no real need to create a new API when there is a an existing one (i.e., RecvFrom). As a consequence, SocketAddressTag has been completely removed from ns-3. Users can use RecvFrom (for UDP), GetPeerName (for TCP), or similar.
• InetSockAddress can now store a ToS value, which can be set through its SetTos method. The Bind and Connect methods of UDP (UdpSocketImpl) and TCP (TcpSocketBase) sockets set the socket ToS value to the value provided through the address input parameter (of type InetSockAddress). See the Socket options section of the Network model for more information.
• The QosTag is removed as it has been superseded by the SocketPriorityTag.
• The Ipv4L3Protocol::DefaultTos attribute is removed.
• The attributes YansWifiPhy::Frequency, YansWifiPhy::ChannelNumber, and YansWifiPhy::ChannelWidth, and the related accessor methods, were moved to base class WifiPhy. YansWifiPhy::GetChannelFrequencyMhz() was deleted. A new method WifiPhy::DefineChannelNumber () was added to allow users to define relationships between channel number, standard, frequency, and channel width.
• The class WifiSpectrumValueHelper has been refactored; previously it was an abstract base class supporting the WifiSpectrumValue5MhzFactory spectrum model. It now contains various static member methods supporting the creation of power spectral densities with the granularity of a Wi-Fi OFDM subcarrier bandwidth. The class WifiSpectrumValue5MhzFactory and its API remain but it is not subclassed.
• A new Wifi method InterferenceHelper::AddForeignSignal has been introduced to support use of the SpectrumWifiPhy (so that non-Wi-Fi signals may be handled as noise power).
• A new Wifi attribute Dcf::TxopLimit has been introduced to add support for 802.11e TXOP.

Changes to build system

• A new waf build option, --check-config, was added to allow users to print the current configuration summary, as appears at the end of ./waf configure. See bug 2459 for discussion.
• The configure summary is now sorted, to make it easier to check the status of optional features.

Changed behavior

This section is for behavioral changes to the models that were not due to a bug fix.

• The relationship between Wi-Fi channel number, frequency, channel width, and Wi-Fi standard has been revised (see bug 2412). Previously, ChannelNumber and Frequency were attributes of class YansWifiPhy, and the frequency was defined as the start of the band. Now, Frequency has been redefined to be the center frequency of the channel, and the underlying device relies on the pair of frequency and channel width to control behavior; the channel number and Wi-Fi standard are used as attributes to configure frequency and channel width. The wifi module documentation discusses this change and the new behavior.
• AODV now honors the TTL in RREQ/RREP and it uses a method compliant with RFC 3561. The node search radius is increased progressively. This could increase slightly the node search time, but it also decreases the network congestion.

Changes from ns-3.24 to ns-3.25

New API

• In 'src/internet/test', a new environment is created to test TCP properties.
• The 'src/traffic-control' module has been added, with new API for adding and configuring queue discs and packet filters.
• Related to traffic control, a new interface has been added to the NetDevice to provide a queue interface to access device queue state and register callbacks used for flow control.
• In 'src/wifi', a new rate control (MinstrelHT) has been added for 802.11n/ac modes.
• In 'src/wifi', a new helper (WifiMacHelper) is added and is a merged helper from all previously existing MAC helpers (NqosWifiMacHelper, QosWifiMacHelper, HtWifiMacHelper and VhtWifiMacHelper).
• It is now possible to use RIPv2 in IPv4 network simulations.

Changes to existing API

• TCP-related changes:
  • Classes TcpRfc793, TcpTahoe, and TcpReno were removed.
  • The 'TcpNewReno' log component was effectively replaced by 'TcpCongestionOps'
  • TCP Hybla and HighSpeed have been added.
  • Added the concept of Congestion State Machine inside TcpSocketBase.
  • Merged Fast Recovery and Fast Retransmit inside TcpSocketBase.
  • Some member variables have been moved from TcpSocketBase inside TcpSocketState. Attributes are not touched.
  • Congestion control split from TcpSocketBase as subclass of TcpCongestionOps.
  • Added Rx and Tx callbacks on TcpSocketBase.
  • Added BytesInFlight trace source on TcpSocketBase. The trace is updated when the implementation requests the value.
  • Added attributes about the number of connection and data retransmission attempts.
• ns-3 is now capable of serializing SLL (a.k.a. cooked) headers. This is used in DCE to allow the generation of pcap directly readable by wireshark.
• In the WifiHelper class in the wifi module, Default has been declared deprecated. This is now immediately handled by the constructor of the class.
• The API for configuring 802.11n/ac aggregation has been modified to be more user friendly. As any MAC layer attributes, aggregation parameters can now also be configured through WifiMacHelper::SetType.
• The class Queue and subclasses derived from it have been changed in two ways:
  • Queues no longer enqueue simple Packets but instead enqueue QueueItem objects, which include Packet but possibly other information such as headers.
  • The attributes governing the mode of operation (packets or bytes) and the maximum size have been moved to base class Queue.
• Users of advanced queues (RED, CoDel) who have been using them directly in the NetDevice will need to adjust to the following changes:
  • RED and CoDel are no longer specializations of the Queue class, but are now specializations of the new QueueDisc class. This means that RED and CoDel can now be installed in the context of the new Traffic Control layer instead of as queues in (some) NetDevices. The reason for such a change is to make the ns-3 stack much more similar to that of real operating systems (Linux has been taken as a reference). Queuing disciplines such as RED and CoDel can now be tested with all the NetDevices, including WifiNetDevices.
  • NetDevices still use queues to buffer packets. The only subclass of Queue currently available for this purpose is DropTailQueue. If one wants to approximate the old behavior, one needs to set the DropTailQueue MaxPackets attribute to very low values, e.g., 1.
  • The Traffic Control layer features a mechanism by which packets dropped by the NetDevice are requeued in the queue disc (more precisely: if NetDevice::Send returns false, the packet is requeued), so that they are retransmitted later. This means that the MAC drop traces may include packets that have not been actually lost, because they have been dropped by the device, requeued by the traffic control layer and successfully retransmitted. To get the correct number of packets that have been actually lost, one has to subtract the number of packets requeued from the number of packets dropped as reported by the MAC drop trace.

Changes to build system

• Waf was upgraded to 1.8.19
• A new waf build option, --check-profile, was added to allow users to check the currently active build profile. It is discussed in bug 2202 in the tracker.

Changed behavior

This section is for behavioral changes to the models that were not due to a bug fix.

• TCP behavioral changes:
  • TCP closes connection after a number of failed segment retries, rather than trying indefinitely. The maximum number of retries, for both SYN attempts and data attempts, is controlled by attributes.
  • Congestion algorithms not compliant with Fast Retransmit and Fast Recovery (TCP 793, Reno, Tahoe) have been removed.
• 802.11n/ac MPDU aggregation is now enabled by default for both AC_BE and AC_VI.
• The introduction of the traffic control layer leads to some additional buffering by default in the stack; when a device queue fills up, additional packets become enqueued at the traffic control layer.

Changes from ns-3.23 to ns-3.24

New API

• In 'src/wifi', several changes were made to enable partial 802.11ac support:
  • A new helper (VhtWifiMacHelper) was added to set up a Very high throughput (VHT) MAC entity.
  • A new standard value has been added that enables the new 11ac data rates.
  • A new 11ac preamble has been added.
  • A new information element has been added: VhtCapabilities. This information element is added to the MAC frame header if the node is a VHT node. This VhtCapabilites information element is used to advertise the VHT capabilities of the node to other nodes in the network.
• The ArpCache API was extended to allow the manual removal of ArpCache entries and the addition of permanent (static) entries for IPv4.
• The SimpleChannel in the 'network' module now allows per-NetDevice blacklists, in order to do hidden terminal testcases.

Changes to existing API

• The signatures on several TcpHeader methods were changed to take const arguments.
• class TcpL4Protocol replaces Send() methods with SendPacket(), and adds new methods to AddSocket() and RemoveSocket() from a node. Also, a new PacketReceived() method was introduced to get the TCP header of an incoming packet and check its checksum.
• The CongestionWindow and SlowStartThreshold trace sources have been moved from the TCP subclasses such as NewReno, Reno, Tahoe, and Westwood to the TcpSocketBase class.
• The WifiMode object has been refactored:
  • 11n data rates are now renamed according to their MCS value. E.g. OfdmRate65MbpsBW20MHz has been renamed into HtMcs7. 11ac data rates have been defined according to this new renaming.
  • HtWifiMacHelper and VhtWifiMacHelper provide a helper to convert a MCS value into a data rate value.
  • The channel width is no longer tied to the wifimode. It is now included in the TXVECTOR.
  • The physical bitrate is no longer tied to the wifimode. It is computed based on the selected wifimode and on the TXVECTOR parameters (channel width, guard interval and number of spatial streams).

Changes to build system

• Waf was upgraded to 1.8.12
• Waf scripts and test.py test runner program were made compatible with Python 3

Changed behavior

This section is for behavioral changes to the models that were not due to a bug fix.

Changes from ns-3.22 to ns-3.23

New API

• The mobility module includes a GeographicPositions class used to convert geographic to cartesian coordinates, and to generate randomly distributed geographic coordinates.
• The spectrum module includes new TvSpectrumTransmitter classes and helpers to create television transmitter(s) that transmit PSD spectrums customized by attributes such as modulation type, power, antenna type, channel frequency, etc.

Changes to existing API

• In LteSpectrumPhy, LtePhyTxEndCallback and the corresponding methods have been removed, since they were unused.
• In the DataRate class in the network module, CalculateTxTime has been declared deprecated. CalculateBytesTxTime and CalculateBitsTxTime are to be used instead. The return value is a Time, instead of a double.
• In the Wi-Fi InterferenceHelper, the interference event now takes the WifiTxVector as an input parameter, instead of the WifiMode. A similar change was made to the WifiPhy::RxOkCallback signature.

Changes to build system

• None

Changed behavior

This section is for behavioral changes to the models that were not due to a bug fix.

• In Wi-Fi, HT stations (802.11n) now support two-level aggregation. The InterferenceHelper now distinguishes between the PLCP and regular payload reception, for higher fidelity modeling. ACKs are now sent using legacy rates and preambles. Access points now establish BSSBasicRateSet for control frame transmissions. PLCP header and PLCP payload reception have been decoupled to improve PHY layer modeling accuracy. RTS/CTS with A-MPDU is now fully supported.
• The mesh module was made more compliant to the IEEE 802.11s-2012 standard and packet traces are now parseable by Wireshark.

Changes from ns-3.21 to ns-3.22

New API

• New classes were added for the PARF and APARF WiFi power and rate control mechanisms.
• Support for WiFi 802.11n MPDU aggregation has been added.
• Additional support for modeling of vehicular WiFi networks has been added, including the channel-access coordination feature of IEEE 1609.4. In addition, a Basic Safety Message (BSM) packet generator and related statistics-gathering classes have been added to the wave module.
• A complete LTE release bearer procedure is now implemented which can be invoked by calling the new helper method LteHelper::DeActivateDedicatedEpsBearer ().
• It is now possible to print the Neighbor Cache (ARP and NDISC) by using the RoutingProtocolHelper
• A TimeProbe class has been added to the data collection framework in the stats module, enabling TracedValues emitting values of type ns3::Time to be handled by the framework.
• A new attribute 'ClockGranularity' was added to the TcpSocketBase class, to control modeling of RTO calculation.

Changes to existing API

• Several deprecated classes and class methods were removed, including EmuNetDevice, RandomVariable and derived classes, Packet::PeekData(), Ipv6AddressHelper::NewNetwork(Ipv6Address, Ipv6Prefix), Ipv6InterfaceContainer::SetRouter(), Ipv4Route::GetOutputTtl(), TestCase::AddTestCase(TestCase*), and TestCase::GetErrorStatus().
• Print methods involving routing tables and neighbor caches, in classes Ipv4RoutingHelper and Ipv6RoutingHelper, were converted to static methods.
• PointerValue attribute types in class UanChannel (NoiseModel), UanPhyGen (PerModel and SinrModel), UanPhyDual (PerModelPhy1, PerModelPhy2, SinrModelPhy1, and SinrModelPhy2), and SimpleNetDevice (TxQueue), were changed from PointerValue type to StringValue type, making them configurable via the Config subsystem.
• WifiPhy::CalculateTxDuration() and WifiPhy::GetPayloadDurationMicroSeconds () now take an additional frequency parameter.
• The attribute 'Recievers' in class YansWifiPhy was misspelled, so this has been corrected to 'Receivers'.
• We have now documented the callback function signatures for all TracedSources, using an extra (fourth) argument to TypeId::AddTraceSource to pass the fully-qualified name of the signature typedef. To ensure that future TraceSources are similarly documented, the three argument version of AddTraceSource has been deprecated.
• The "MinRTO" attribute of the RttEstimator class was moved to the TcpSocketBase class. The "Gain" attribute of the RttMeanDeviation class was replaced by new "Alpha" and "Beta" attributes.
• Attributes of the TcpTxBuffer and TcpRxBuffer class are now accessible through the TcpSocketBase class.
• The LrWpanHelper class has a new constructor allowing users to configure a MultiModelSpectrumChannel as an option, and also provides Set/Get API to allow users to access the underlying channel object.

Changes to build system

• waf was upgraded to version 1.7.16

Changed behavior

This section is for behavioral changes to the models that were not due to a bug fix.

• The default value of the `Speed` attribute of ConstantSpeedPropagationDelayModel was changed from 300,000,000 m/s to 299,792,458 m/s (speed of light in a vacuum), causing propagation delays using this model to vary slightly.
• The LrWpanHelper object was previously instantiating only a LogDistancePropagationLossModel on a SingleModelSpectrumChannel, but no PropagationDelayModel. The constructor now adds by default a ConstantSpeedPropagationDelayModel.
• The Nix-vector routing implementation now uses a lazy flush mechanism, which dramatically speeds up the creation of large topologies.

Changes from ns-3.20 to ns-3.21

New API

• New "const double& SpectrumValue:: operator[] (size_t index) const".
• A new TraceSource has been added to TCP sockets: SlowStartThreshold.
• New method CommandLine::AddValue (name, attibutePath) to provide a shorthand argument "name" for the Attribute "path". This also has the effect of including the help string for the Attribute in the Usage message.
• The GSoC 2014 project in the LTE module has brought some additional APIs:

  • a new abstract class LteFfrAlgorithm, which every future implementation of frequency reuse algorithm should inherit from

  • a new SAPs: one between MAC Scheduler and FrAlgorithm, one between RRC and FrAlgorithm

  • new attribute to enable Uplink Power Control in LteUePhy

  • new LteUePowerControl class, an implementation of Uplink Power Control, which is configurable by attributes. ReferenceSignalPower is sent by eNB in SIB2. Uplink Power Control in Closed Loop Accumulative Mode is enabled by default

  • seven different Frequency Reuse Algorithms (each has its own attributes):

  • LteFrNoOpAlgorithm

  • LteFrHardAlgorithm

  • LteFrStrictAlgorithm

  • LteFrSoftAlgorithm

  • LteFfrSoftAlgorithm

  • LteFfrEnhancedAlgorithm

  • LteFfrDistributedAlgorithm

  • attribute in LteFfrAlgorithm to set FrCellTypeId which is used in automatic Frequency Reuse algorithm configuration

  • LteHelper has been updated with new methods related to frequency reuse algorithm: SetFfrAlgorithmType and SetFfrAlgorithmAttribute

• A new SimpleNetDeviceHelper can now be used to install SimpleNetDevices.
• New PacketSocketServer and PacketSocketClient apps, meant to be used in tests.
• Tcp Timestamps and Window Scale options have been added and are enabled by default (controllable by attribute).
• A new CoDel queue model has been added to the 'internet' module.
• New test macros NS_TEST_ASSERT_MSG_GT_OR_EQ() and NS_TEST_EXPECT_MSG_GT_OR_EQ() have been added.

Changes to existing API

• "Icmpv6L4Protocol::ForgeEchoRequest" is now returning a packet with the proper IPv6 header.
• The TCP socket Attribute "SlowStartThreshold" has been renamed "InitialSlowStartThreshold" to clarify that the effect is only on the initial value.
• all schedulers were updated to interact with FR entity via FFR-SAP. Only PF, PSS, CQA, FD-TBFQ, TD-TBFQ schedulers supports Frequency Reuse functionality. In the beginning of scheduling process, schedulers ask FR entity for available RBGs and then ask if UE can be scheduled on RB
• eNB RRC interacts with FFR entity via RRC-FFR SAP
• new DL-CQI generation approach was implemented. Now DL-CQI is computed from control channel as signal and data channel (if received) as interference. New attribute in LteHelper was added to specify DL-CQI generation approach. New approach is default one in LteHelper
• RadioEnvironmentMap can be generated for Data or Control channel and for specified RbId; Data or Control channel and RbId can be configured by new attributes in RadioEnvironmentMapHelper
• lte-sinr-chunk-processor refactored to lte-chunk-processor. Removed all lte-xxx-chunk-processor implementations
• BindToNetDevice affects also sockets using IPv6.
• BindToNetDevice now calls implicitly Bind (). To bind a socket to a NetDevice and to a specific address, the correct sequence is Bind (address) - BindToNetDevice (device). The opposite will raise an error.

Changes to build system

• None for this release.

Changed behavior

• Behavior will be changed due to the list of bugs fixed (listed in RELEASE_NOTES.md); users are requested to review that list as well.

Changes from ns-3.19 to ns-3.20

New API

• Models have been added for low-rate, wireless personal area networks (LR-WPAN) as specified by IEEE standard 802.15.4 (2006). The current emphasis is on the unslotted mode of 802.15.4 operation for use in Zigbee, and the scope is limited to enabling a single mode (CSMA/CA) with basic data transfer capabilities. Association with PAN coordinators is not yet supported, nor the use of extended addressing. Interference is modeled as AWGN but this is currently not thoroughly tested. The NetDevice Tx queue is not limited, i.e., packets are never dropped due to queue becoming full. They may be dropped due to excessive transmission retries or channel access failure.
• A new IPv6 routing protocol has been added: RIPng. This protocol is an Interior Gateway Protocol and it is available in the Internet module.
• A new LTE MAC downlink scheduling algorithm named Channel and QoS Aware (CQA) Scheduler is provided by the new "ns3::CqaFfMacScheduler" object.
• Units may be attached to Time objects, to facilitate specific output formats (see Time::As())
• FlowMonitor "SerializeToXml" functions are now directly available from the helper.
• Access to OLSR's HNA table has been enabled

Changes to existing API

• The SixLowPan model can now use uncompressed IPv6 headers. An option to define the minimum compressed packet size has been added.
• MinDistance wsa replaced by MinLoss in FriisPropagationLossModel, to better handle conditions outside of the assumed far field region.
• In the DSR model, the attribute DsrOptionRerrHeader::ErrorType" has been removed.

Changes to build system

• Python 3.3 is now supported for Python bindings for ns-3. Python 3.3 support for API scanning is not supported. Python 3.2 is not supported.
• Enable selection of high precision int64x64_t implementation at configure time, for debugging purposes.
• Optimized builds are now enabling signed overflow optimization (-fstrict-overflow) and for gcc 4.8.2 and greater, also warning for cases where an optimizization may occur due to compiler assumption that overflow will not occur.

Changed behavior

• The Internet FlowMonitor can now track IPv6 packets.
• Ipv6Extension::m_dropTrace has been removed. Ipv6L3Protocol::m_dropTrace is now fired when appropriate.
• IPv4 identification field value is now dependent on the protocol field.
• Point-to-point trace sources now contain PPP headers

Changes from ns-3.18.1 to ns-3.19

New API

• A new wifi extension for vehicular simulation support is available in the src/wave directory. The current code represents an interim capability to realize an IEEE 802.11p-compliant device, but without the WAVE extensions (which are planned for a later patch). The WaveNetDevice modelled herein enforces that a WAVE-compliant physical layer (at 5.9 GHz) is selected, and does not require any association between devices (similar to an adhoc WiFi MAC), but is otherwise similar (at this time) to a WifiNetDevice. WAVE capabililties of switching between control and service channels, or using multiple radios, are not yet modelled.
• New SixLowPanNetDevice class providing a shim between IPv6 and real NetDevices. The new module implements 6LoWPAN: "Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IEEE 802.15.4 Networks" (see RFC 4944 and RFC 6262), resulting in a heavy header compression for IPv6 packets. The module is intended to be used on 802.15.4 NetDevices, but it can be used over other NetDevices. See the manual for further discussion.
• LteHelper has been updated with some new APIs:
  • new overloaded Attach methods to enable UE to automatically determine the eNodeB to attach to (using initial cell selection);
  • new methods related to handover algorithm: SetHandoverAlgorithmType and SetHandoverAlgorithmAttribute;
  • a new attribute AnrEnabled to activate/deactivate Automatic Neighbour Relation (ANR) function; and
  • a new method SetUeDeviceAttribute for configuring LteUeNetDevice.
• The GSoC 2013 project in the LTE module has brought some additional APIs:
  • a new abstract class LteHandoverAlgorithm, which every future implementation of automatic handover trigger should inherit from;
  • new classes LteHandoverAlgorithm and LteAnr as sub-modules of LteEnbNetDevice class; both interfacing with the LteEnbRrc sub-module through Handover Management SAP and ANR SAP;
  • new attributes in LteEnbNetDevice and LteUeNetDevice classes related to Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) functionality in initial cell selection;
  • new attributes in LteEnbRrc for configuring UE measurements' filtering coefficient (i.e., quantity configuration);
  • a new public method AddUeMeasReportConfig in LteEnbRrc for setting up custom UE measurements' reporting configuration; measurement reports can then be captured from the RecvMeasurementReport trace source; and
  • new trace sources in LteUeRrc to capture more events, such as System Information messages (MIB, SIB1, SIB2), initial cell selection, random access, and handover.
• A new parallel scheduling algorithm based on null messages, a common parallel DES scheduling algorithm, has been added. The null message scheduler has better scaling properties when running on some scenarios with large numbers of nodes since it does not require a global communication.

Changes to existing API

• It is now possible to use Ipv6PacketInfoTag from UDP applications in the same way as with Ipv4PacketInfoTag. See Doxygen for current limitations in using Ipv[4,6]PacketInfoTag to set IP properties.
• A change is introduced for the usage of the EpcHelper class. Previously, the EpcHelper class included both the API definition and its (only) implementation; as such, users would instantiate and use the EpcHelper class directly in their simulation programs. From now on, EpcHelper is just the base class defining the API, and the implementation has been moved to derived classes; as such, users are now expected to use one of the derived classes in their simulation program. The implementation previously provided by the EpcHelper class has been moved to the new derived class PointToPointEpcHelper.
• The automatic handover trigger and ANR functions in LTE module have been moved from LteEnbRrc class to separate classes. As a result, the related attributes, e.g., ServingCellHandoverThreshold, NeighbourCellHandoverOffset, EventA2Threshold, and EventA4Threshold have been removed from LteEnbRrc class. The equivalent attributes are now in A2A4RsrqHandoverAlgorithm and LteAnr classes.
• Master Information Block (MIB) and System Information Block Type 1 (SIB1) are now transmitted as LTE control messages, so they are no longer part of RRC protocol.
• UE RRC state model in LTE module has been considerably modified and is not backward compatible with the previous state model.
• Additional time units (Year, Day, Hour, Minute) were added to the time value class that represents simulation time; the largest unit prior to this addition was Second.
• SimpleNetDevice and SimpleChannel are not so simple anymore. SimpleNetDevice can be now a Broadcast or PointToPoint NetDevice, it can have a limited bandwidth and it uses an output queue.

Changes to build system

Changed behavior

• For the TapBridge device, in UseLocal mode there is a MAC learning function. TapBridge has been waiting for the first packet received from tap interface to set the address of the bridged device to the source address of the first packet. This has caused problems with WiFi. The new behavior is that after connection to the tap interface, ns-3 learns the MAC address of that interface with a system call and immediately sets the address of the bridged device to the learned one. See bug 1777 for more details.
• TapBridge device now correctly implements IsLinkUp() method.
• IPv6 addresses and routing tables are printed like in Linux "route -A inet6" command.
• A change in Ipv[4,6]Interface enforces the correct behaviour of IP when a device do not support the minimum MTU requirements. This is set to 68 and 1280 octects respectively. IP simulations that may have run over devices with smaller MTUs than 68 or 1280, respectively, will no longer be able to use such devices.

Changes from ns-3.18 to ns-3.18.1

New API

• It is now possible to randomize the time of the first beacon from an access point. Use an attribute "EnableBeaconJitter" to enable/disable this feature.
• A new FixedRoomPositionAllocator helper class is available; it allows one to generate a random position uniformly distributed in the volume of a chosen room inside a chosen building.

Changes to existing API

• Logging wildcards: allow "***" as synonym for "*=**" to turn on all logging.
• The log component list ("NS_LOG=print-list") is now printed alphabetically.
• Some deprecated IEEE 802.11p code has been removed from the wifi module

Changes to build system

• The Python API scanning system (./waf --apiscan) has been fixed (bug 1622)
• Waf has been upgraded from 1.7.11 to 1.7.13

Changed behavior

• Wifi simulations have additional jitter on AP beaconing (see above) and some bug fixes have been applied to wifi module (see RELEASE_NOTES.md)

Changes from ns-3.17 to ns-3.18

New API

• New features have been added to the LTE module:
  • PHY support for UE measurements (RSRP and RSRQ)
  • RRC support for UE measurements (configuration, execution, reporting)
  • Automatic Handover trigger based on RRC UE measurement reports
• Data collection components have been added in the 'src/stats' module. Data collection includes a Probe class that attaches to ns-3 trace sources to filter their output, and two Aggregator classes for marshaling probed data into text files or gnuplot plots. The ns-3 tutorial has been extended to illustrate basic functionality.
• In 'src/wifi', several changes were made to enable partial 802.11n support:
  • A new helper (HtWifiMacHelper) was added to set up a High Throughput (HT) MAC entity
  • New attributes were added to help the user setup a High Throughput (HT) PHY entity. These attributes can be set using the YansWifiPhyHelper
  • A new standard value has been added that enables the new 11n data rates.
  • New 11n preambles has been added (Mixed format and greenfield). To be able to change Tx duration according to the preamble used, a new class TxVector has been added to carry the transmission parameters (mode, preamble, stbc,..). Several functions have been updated to allow the passage of TxVector instead of WifiMode in MacLow, WifiRemoteStationManager, WifiPhy, YansWifiPhy,..
  • A new information element has been added: HTCapabilities. This information element is added to the MAC frame header if the node is an HT node. This HTCapabilites information element is used to advertise the HT capabilities of the node to other nodes in the network
• InternetStackHelper has two new functions:SetIpv4ArpJitter (bool enable) and SetIpv6NsRsJitter (bool enable) to enable/disable the random jitter on the tranmission of IPv4 ARP Request and IPv6 NS/RS.
• Bounds on valid time inputs for time attributes can now be enabled. See attribute-test-suite.cc for an example.
• New generic hash function interface provided in the simulation core. Two hash functions are provided: murmur3 (default), and the venerable FNV1a. See the Hash Functions section in the ns-3 manual.
• New Mac16Address has been added. It can be used with IPv6 to make an Autoconfigured address.
• Mac64Address support has been extended. It can now be used with IPv6 to make an Autoconfigured address.
• IPv6 can now detect and use Path-MTU. See examples/ipv6/fragmentation-ipv6-two-MTU.cc for an example.
• Radvd application has a new Helper. See the updated examples/ipv6/radvd.cc for an example.

Changes to existing API

• The Ipv6InterfaceContainer functions to set a node in forwarding state (i.e., a router) and to install a default router in a group of nodes have been extensively changed. The old function void Ipv6InterfaceContainer::SetRouter (uint32_t i, bool router) is now DEPRECATED.
• The documentation's IPv6 addresses (2001:db8::/32, RFC 3849) are now dropped by routers.
• The 'src/tools' module has been removed, and most files migrated to 'src/stats'. For users of these programs (the statistics-processing in average.h, or the gnuplot support), the main change is likely to be replacing the inclusion of "tools-module.h" with "stats-module.h". Users of the event garbage collector, previously in tools, will now include it from the core module.
• The Ipv6 UnicastForwardCallback and MulticastForwardCallback have a new parameter, the NetDevice the packet has been received from. Existing Ipv6RoutingProtocols should update their RouteInput function accordingly, e.g., from ucb (rtentry, p, header); to ucb (idev, rtentry, p, header);
• The previous buildings module relied on a specific MobilityModel called BuildingsMobilityModel, which supported buildings but only allowed static positions. This mobility model has been removed. Now, the Buildings module instead relies on a new class called MobilityBuildingInfo which can be aggregated to any MobilityModel. This allows having moving nodes in presence of buildings with any of the existing MobilityModels.
• All functions in WifiRemoteStationManager named GetXxxMode have been changed to GetXxxTxVector

Changes to build system

• Make references to bug id's in doxygen comments with \bugid{num}, where num is the bug id number. This form will generate a link to the bug in the bug database.

Changed behavior

• Now it is possible to request printing command line arguments to the desired output stream using PrintHelp or operator <<

  CommandLine cmd;
  cmd.Parse (argc, argv);
  

  ...

  std::cerr << cmd;
  

  or

  cmd.PrintHelp (std::cerr);
  

• Command line boolean arguments specified with no integer value (e.g. "--boolArg") will toggle the value from the default, instead of always setting the value to true.

• IPv4's ARP Request and IPv6's NS/RS are now transmitted with a random delay. The delay is, by default, a uniform random variable in time between 0 and 10ms. This is aimed at preventing reception errors due to collisions during wifi broadcasts when the sending behavior is synchronized (e.g. due to applications starting at the same time on several different nodes). This behaviour can be modified by using ArpL3Protocol's RequestJitter and Icmpv6L4Protocol's SolicitationJitter attributes or by using the new InternetStackHelper functions.

• AODV Hellos are disabled by default. The performance with Hellos enabled and disabled are almost identical. With Hellos enabled, AODV will suppress hellos from transmission, if any recent broadcast such as RREQ was transmitted. The attribute ns3::aodv::RoutingProtocol::EnableHello can be used to enable/disable Hellos.

Changes from ns-3.16 to ns-3.17

New API

• New TCP Westwood and Westwood+ models
• New FdNetDevice class providing a special NetDevice that is able to read and write traffic from a file descriptor. Three helpers are provided to associate the file descriptor with different underlying devices:
  • EmuFdNetDeviceHelper (to associate the |ns3| device with a physical device in the host machine). This helper is intended to eventually replace the EmuNetDevice in src/emu.
  • TapFdNetDeviceHelper (to associate the ns-3 device with the file descriptor from a tap device in the host machine)
  • PlanteLabFdNetDeviceHelper (to automate the creation of tap devices in PlanetLab nodes, enabling |ns3| simulations that can send and receive traffic though the Internet using PlanetLab resource.
• In Ipv4ClickRouting, the following APIs were added:
  • Ipv4ClickRouting::SetDefines(), accessible through ClickInternetStackHelper::SetDefines(), for the user to set Click defines from the ns-3 simulation file.
  • SIMCLICK_GET_RANDOM_INT click-to-simulator command for ns-3 to drive Click's random number generation.
• LTE module
  • New user-visible LTE API
    • Two new methods have been added to LteHelper to enable the X2-based handover functionality: AddX2Interface, which setups the X2 interface between two eNBs, and HandoverRequest, which is a convenience method that schedules an explicit handover event to be executed at a given point in the simulation.
    • the new LteHelper method EnablePhyTraces can now be used to enable the new PHY traces
  • New internal LTE API
    • New LTE control message classes DlHarqFeedbackLteControlMessage, RachPreambleLteControlMessage, RarLteControlMessage, MibLteControlMessage
    • New class UeManager
    • New LteRadioBearerInfo subclasses LteSignalingRadioBearerInfo, LteDataRadioBearerInfo
    • New LteSinrChunkProcessor subclasses LteRsReceivedPowerChunkProcessor, LteInterferencePowerChunkProcessor
• New DSR API
  • Added PassiveBuffer class to save maintenance packet entry for passive acknowledgment option
  • Added FindSourceEntry function in RreqTable class to keep track of route request entry received from same source node
  • Added NotifyDataReciept function in DsrRouting class to notify the data receipt of the next hop from link layer. This is used for the link layer acknowledgment.
• New Tag, PacketSocketTag, to carry the destination address of a packet and the packet type
• New Tag, DeviceNameTag, to carry the ns3 device name from where a packet is coming
• New Error Model, BurstError model, to determine which bursts of packets are errored corresponding to an underlying distribution, burst rate, and burst size

Changes to existing API

• ns3::Object and subclasses DoStart has been renamed to DoInitialize
• ns3::Object and subclasses Start has been renamed to Initialize
• EnergySource StartDeviceModels renamed to InitializeDeviceModels
• A typo was fixed in an LTE variable name. The variable ns3::AllocationRetentionPriority::preemprionVulnerability was changed to preemptionVulnerability.
• Changes in TestCase API
  • TestCase has new enumeration TestDuration containing QUICK, EXTENSIVE, TAKES_FOREVER
  • TestCase constructor now requires TestDuration, old constructor marked deprecated
• Changes in LTE API
  • User-visible LTE API
    • The previous LteHelper method ActivateEpsBearer has been now replaced by two alternative methods: ActivateDataRadioBearer (to be used when the EPC model is not used) and ActivateDedicatedEpsBearer (to be used when the EPC model is used). In the case where the EPC model is used, the default EPS bearer is not automatically activated without the need for a specific method to be called.
  • Internal LTE API
    • EpcHelper added methods AddUe, AddX2Interface. Method AddEnb now requires a cellId. Signature of ActivateEpsBearer changed to void ActivateEpsBearer (Ptr ueLteDevice, uint64_t imsi, Ptr tft, EpsBearer bearer)
    • LteHelper added methods EnableDlPhyTraces, EnableUlPhyTraces, EnableDlTxPhyTraces, EnableUlTxPhyTraces, EnableDlRxPhyTraces, EnableUlRxPhyTraces
    • LteHelper removed methods EnableDlRlcTraces, EnableUlRlcTraces, EnableDlPdcpTraces, EnableUlPdcpTraces
    • RadioBearerStatsCalculator added methods (Set/Get)StartTime, (Set/Get)Epoch, RescheduleEndEpoch, EndEpoch
    • RadioBearerStatsCalculator removed methods StartEpoch, CheckEpoch
    • RadioBearerStatsCalculator methods UlTxPdu, DlRxPdu now require a cellId
    • EpcEnbApplication constructor now requires Ipv4Addresses enbS1uAddress and sgwS1uAddress as well as cellId
    • EpcEnbApplication added methods SetS1SapUser, GetS1SapProvider, SetS1apSapMme and GetS1apSapEnb
    • EpcEnbApplication removed method ErabSetupRequest
    • EpcSgwPgwApplication added methods SetS11SapMme, GetS11SapSgw, AddEnb, AddUe, SetUeAddress
    • lte-common.h new structs PhyTransmissionStatParameters and PhyReceptionStatParameters used in TracedCallbacks
    • LteControlMessage new message types DL_HARQ, RACH_PREAMBLE, RAR, MIB
    • LteEnbCmacSapProvider new methods RemoveUe, GetRachConfig, AllocateNcRaPreamble, AllocateTemporaryCellRnti
    • LteEnbPhy new methods GetLteEnbCphySapProvider, SetLteEnbCphySapUser, GetDlSpectrumPhy, GetUlSpectrumPhy, CreateSrsReport
    • LteEnbPhy methods DoSendMacPdu, DoSetTransmissionMode, DoSetSrsConfigurationIndex, DoGetMacChTtiDelay, DoSendLteControlMessage, AddUePhy, DeleteUePhy made private
    • LteEnbPhySapProvider removed methods SetBandwidth, SetTransmissionMode, SetSrsConfigurationIndex, SetCellId
    • LteEnbPhySapUser added methods ReceiveRachPreamble, UlInfoListElementHarqFeeback, DlInfoListElementHarqFeeback
    • LtePdcp added methods (Set/Get)Status
    • LtePdcp DoTransmitRrcPdu renamed DoTransmitPdcpSdu
    • LteUeRrc new enum State. New methods SetLteUeCphySapProvider, GetLteUeCphySapUser, SetLteUeRrcSapUser, GetLteUeRrcSapProvider, GetState, GetDlEarfcn, GetDlBandwidth, GetUlBandwidth, GetCellId, SetUseRlcSm . GetRnti made const.
    • LteUeRrc removed methods ReleaseRadioBearer, GetLcIdVector, SetForwardUpCallback, DoRrcConfigurationUpdateInd
    • LtePdcpSapProvider struct TransmitRrcPduParameters renamed TransmitPdcpSduParameters. Method TransmitRrcPdu renamed TransmitPdcpSdu
    • LtePdcpSapUser struct ReceiveRrcPduParameters renamed ReceivePdcpSduParameters. Method ReceiveRrcPdu renamed TransmitPdcpSdu
    • LtePdcpSpecificLtePdcpSapProvider method TransmitRrcPdu renamed TransmitPdcpSdu
    • LtePdcpSpecificLtePdcpSapUser method ReceiveRrcPdu renamed ReceivePdcpSdu. Method ReceiveRrcPdu renamed ReceivePdcpSdu
    • LtePhy removed methods DoSetBandwidth and DoSetEarfcn
    • LtePhy added methods ReportInterference and ReportRsReceivedPower
    • LteSpectrumPhy added methods SetHarqPhyModule, Reset, SetLtePhyDlHarqFeedbackCallback, SetLtePhyUlHarqFeedbackCallback, AddRsPowerChunkProcessor, AddInterferenceChunkProcessor
    • LteUeCphySapProvider removed methods ConfigureRach, StartContentionBasedRandomAccessProcedure, StartNonContentionBasedRandomAccessProcedure
    • LteUeMac added method AssignStreams
    • LteUeNetDevice methods GetMac, GetRrc, GetImsi made const
    • LteUeNetDevice new method GetNas
    • LteUePhy new methods GetLteUeCphySapProvider, SetLteUeCphySapUser, GetDlSpectrumPhy, GetUlSpectrumPhy, ReportInterference, ReportRsReceivedPower, ReceiveLteDlHarqFeedback
    • LteUePhy DoSendMacPdu, DoSendLteControlMessage, DoSetTransmissionMode, DoSetSrsConfigurationIndex made private
    • LteUePhySapProvider removed methods SetBandwidth, SetTransmissionMode, SetSrsConfigurationIndex
    • LteUePhySapProvider added method SendRachPreamble
• AnimationInterface method EnableIpv4RouteTracking returns reference to calling AnimationInterface object
• To make the API more uniform across the various PropagationLossModel classes, the Set/GetLambda methods of the FriisPropagationLossModel and TwoRayGroundPropagationLossModel classes have been changed to Set/GetFrequency, and now a Frequency attribute is exported which replaces the pre-existing Lambda attribute. Any previous user code setting a value for Lambda should be changed to set instead a value of Frequency = C / Lambda, with C = 299792458.0.

Changes to build system

• Waf shipped with ns-3 has been upgraded to version 1.7.10 and custom pkg-config generator has been replaced by Waf's builtin tool.

Changed behavior

• DSR link layer notification has changed. The model originally used "TxErrHeader" in Ptr to indicate the transmission error of a specific packet in link layer; however, it was not working correctly. The model now uses a different path to implement the link layer notification mechanism; specifically, looking into the trace file to find packet receive events. If the model finds one receive event for the data packet, it is used as the indicator for successful data delivery.

Changes from ns-3.15 to ns-3.16

New API

• In the Socket class, the following functions were added:
  • (Set/Get)IpTos - sets IP Type of Service field in the IP headers.
  • (Set/Is)IpRecvTos - tells the socket to pass information about IP ToS up the stack (by adding SocketIpTosTag to the packet).
  • (Set/Get)IpTtl - sets IP Time to live field in the IP headers.
  • (Set/Is)RecvIpTtl - tells the socket to pass information about IP TTL up the stack (by adding SocketIpTtlTag to the packet).
  • (Set/Is)Ipv6Tclass - sets Traffic Class field in the IPv6 headers.
  • (Set/Is)Ipv6RecvTclass - tells the socket to pass information about IPv6 TCLASS up the stack (by adding SocketIpv6TclassTag to the packet).
  • (Set/Get)Ipv6HopLimit - sets Hop Limit field in the IPv6 headers.
  • (Set/Is)Ipv6RecvHopLimit - tells the socket to pass information about IPv6 HOPLIMIT up the stack (by adding SocketIpv6HoplimitTag to the packet).A user can call these functions to set/get the corresponding socket option. See examples/socket/socket-options-ipv4.cc and examples/socket/socket-options-ipv6.cc for examples.

Changes to existing API

• In the MobilityHelper class, the functions EnableAscii () and EnableAsciiAll () were changed to use output stream wrappers rather than standard C++ ostreams. The purpose of this change was to make them behave analogously to other helpers in ns-3 that generate ascii traces. Now, the file stream that is open in MobilityHelper is closed nicely upon asserts and program exits.

Changes to build system

• It's now possible to use distcc when building ns-3. See tutorial for details.

Changed behavior

• Sending a packet through Ipv4RawSocket now supports checksum in the Ipv4Header. It is still not possible to manually put in arbitrary checksum as the checksum is automatically calculated at Ipv4L3Protocol. The user has to enable checksum globally for this to work. Simply calling Ipv4Header::EnableChecksum() for a single Ipv4Header will not work.
• Now MultiModelSpectrumChannel allows a SpectrumPhy instance to change SpectrumModel at runtime by issuing a call to MultiModelSpectrumChannel::AddRx (). Previously, MultiModelSpectrumChannel required each SpectrumPhy instance to stick with the same SpectrumModel for the whole simulation.

Changes from ns-3.14 to ns-3.15

New API

• A RandomVariableStreamHelper has been introduced to assist with using the Config subsystem path names to assign fixed stream numbers to RandomVariableStream objects.

Changes to existing API

• Derived classes of RandomVariable (i.e. the random variable implementations) have been ported to a new RandomVariableStream base class.
• For a given distribution DistributionVariable (such as UniformVariable), the new class name is DistributionRandomVariable (such as UniformRandomVariable).
• The new implementations are also derived from class ns3::Object and are handled using the ns-3 smart pointer (Ptr) class.
• The new variable classes also have a new attributed called "Stream" which allows them to be assigned to a fix stream index when assigned to the underlying pseudo-random stream of numbers.

Changes to build system

Changed behavior

• Programs using random variables or models that include random variables may exhibit changed output for a given run number or seed, due to a possible change in the order in which random variables are assigned to underlying pseudo-random sequences. Consult the manual for more information regarding this.

Changes from ns-3.13 to ns-3.14

New API

• The new class AntennaModel provides an API for modeling the radiation pattern of antennas.
• The new buildings module introduces an API (classes, helpers, etc) to model the presence of buildings in a wireless network topology.
• The LENA project's implementation of the LTE Mac Scheduler Interface Specification standardized by the Small Cell Forum (formerly Femto Forum) is now available for use with the LTE module.

Changes to existing API

• The Ipv6RawSocketImpl "IcmpFilter" attribute has been removed. Six new member functions have been added to enable the same functionality.

• IPv6 support for TCP and UDP has been implemented. Socket functions that take an address [e.g. Send (), Connect (), Bind ()] can accept an ns3::Ipv6Address or a ns3::Address in addition to taking an ns3::Ipv4Address. (Note that the ns3::Address must contain a ns3::Ipv6Address or a ns3::Ipv4Address, otherwise these functions will return an error). Internally, the socket now stores the remote address as a type "ns3::Address" instead of a type "ns3::Ipv4Address". The IPv6 Routing Header extension is not currently supported in ns3 and will not be reflected in the TCP and UDP checksum calculations per RFC 2460. Also note that UDP checksums for IPv6 packets are required per RFC, but remain optional and disabled by default in ns3 (in the interest of performance).

• When calling Bind () on a socket without an address, the behavior remains the same: it will bind to the IPv4 "any" address (0.0.0.0). In order to Bind () to the IPv6 "any" address in a similar fashion, use "Bind6 ()".

• The prototype for the RxCallback function in the Ipv6EndPoint was changed. It now includes the destination IPv6 address of the end point which was needed for TCP. This lead to a small change in the UDP and ICMPv6 L4 protocols as well.

• Ipv6RoutingHelper can now print the IPv6 Routing Tables at specific intervals or time. Exactly like Ipv4RoutingHelper do.

• New "SendIcmpv6Redirect" attribute (and getter/setter functions) to Ipv6L3Protocol. The behavior is similar to Linux's conf "send_redirects", i.e., enable/disable the ICMPv6 Redirect sending.

• The SpectrumPhy abstract class now has a new method

  virtual Ptr GetRxAntenna () = 0;

  that all derived classes need to implement in order to integrate properly with the newly added antenna model. In addition, a new member variable "Ptr txAntenna" has been added to SpectrumSignalParameters in order to allow derived SpectrumPhy classes to provide information about the antenna model used for the transmission of a waveform.

• The Ns2CalendarScheduler event scheduler has been removed.

• ErrorUnit enum has been moved into RateErrorModel class, and symbols EU_BIT, EU_BYTE and EU_PKT have been renamed to RateErrorModel::ERROR_UNIT_BIT, RateErrorModel::ERROR_UNIT_BYTE and RateErrorModel::ERROR_UNIT_PACKET. RateErrorModel class attribute "ErrorUnit" values have also been renamed for consistency, and are now "ERROR_UNIT_BIT", "ERROR_UNIT_BYTE", "ERROR_UNIT_PACKET".

• QueueMode enum from DropTailQueue and RedQueue classes has been unified and moved to Queueu class. Symbols DropTailQueue::PACKETS and DropTailQueue::BYTES are now named Queue::QUEUE_MODE_PACKETS and DropTailQueue::QUEUE_MODE_BYTES. In addition, DropTailQueue and RedQueue class attributes "Mode" have been renamed for consistency from "Packets" and "Bytes" to "QUEUE_MODE_PACKETS" and "QUEUE_MODE_BYTES".

• The API of the LTE module has undergone a significant redesign with the merge of the code from the LENA project. The new API is not backwards compatible with the previous version of the LTE module.

• The Ipv6AddressHelper API has been aligned with the Ipv4AddressHelper API. The helper can be set with a call to Ipv6AddressHelper::SetBase (Ipv6Address network, Ipv6Prefix prefix) instead of NewNetwork (Ipv6Address network, Ipv6Prefix prefix). A new NewAddress (void) method has been added. Typical usage will involve calls to SetBase (), NewNetwork (), and NewAddress (), as in class Ipv4AddressHelper.

Changes to build system

• The following files are removed:

  src/internet/model/ipv4-l4-protocol.cc
  src/internet/model/ipv4-l4-protocol.h
  src/internet/model/ipv6-l4-protocol.cc
  src/internet/model/ipv6-l4-protocol.h
  

  and replaced with:

  src/internet/model/ip-l4-protocol.cc
  src/internet/model/ip-l4-protocol.h
  

Changed behavior

• Dual-stacked IPv6 sockets are implemented. An IPv6 socket can accept an IPv4 connection, returning the senders address as an IPv4-mapped address (IPV6_V6ONLY socket option is not implemented).

• The following examples/application/helpers were modified to support IPv6:

  csma-layout/examples/csma-star [*] netanim/examples/star-animation [*] point-to-point-layout/model/point-to-point-star.cc point-to-point-layout/model/point-to-point-grid.cc point-to-point-layout/model/point-to-point-dumbbell.cc examples/udp/udp-echo [*] examples/udp-client-server/udp-client-server [*] examples/udp-client-server/udp-trace-client-server [*] applications/helper/udp-echo-helper applications/model/udp-client applications/model/udp-echo-client applications/model/udp-echo-server applications/model/udp-server applications/model/udp-trace-client

  [*] Added '--useIpv6' flag to switch between IPv4 and IPv6

Changes from ns-3.12 to ns-3.13

Changes to build system

• The underlying version of waf used by ns-3 was upgraded to 1.6.7. This has a few changes for users and developers:

  • by default, "build" no longer has a subdirectory debug or optimized. To get different build directories for different build types, you can use the waf configure -o option, e.g.:

    ./waf configure -o shared
    ./waf configure --enable-static -o static
    

  • (for developers) the ns3headers taskgen needs to be created with a features parameter name:

    -  headers = bld.new\_task\_gen('ns3header')
    +  headers = bld.new\_task\_gen(features=\['ns3header'\])
    

  • no longer need to edit src/wscript to add a module, just create your module directory inside src and ns-3 will pick it up

  • In WAF 1.6, adding -Dxxx options is done via the DEFINES env. var. instead of CXXDEFINES

  • waf env values are always lists now, e.g. env['PYTHON'] returns ['/usr/bin/python'], so you may need to add [0] to the value in some places

New API

• In the mobility module, there is a new MobilityModel::GetRelativeSpeed() method returning the relative speed of two objects.
• A new Ipv6AddressGenerator class was added to generate sequential addresses from a provided base prefix and interfaceId. It also will detect duplicate address assignments.

Changes to existing API

• In the spectrum module, the parameters to SpectrumChannel::StartTx () and SpectrumPhy::StartRx () methods are now passed using the new struct SpectrumSignalParameters. This new struct supports inheritance, hence it allows technology-specific PHY implementations to provide technology-specific parameters in SpectrumChannel::StartTx() and SpectrumPhy::StartRx(), while at the same time keeping a set of technology-independent parameters common across all spectrum-enabled PHY implementations (i.e., the duration and the power spectral density which are needed for interference calculation). Additionally, the SpectrumType class has been removed, since now the type of a spectrum signal can be inferred by doing a dynamic cast on SpectrumSignalParameters. See the Spectrum API change discussion on ns-developers for the motivation behind this API change.
• The WifiPhyStandard enumerators for specifying half- and quarter-channel width standards has had a change in capitalization:
  • WIFI_PHY_STANDARD_80211_10Mhz was changed to WIFI_PHY_STANDARD_80211_10MHZ
  • WIFI_PHY_STANDARD_80211_5Mhz was changed to WIFI_PHY_STANDARD_80211_5MHZ
• In the SpectrumPhy base class, the methods to get/set the MobilityModel and the NetDevice were previously working with opaque Ptr