ndnSIM documentation

This website includes the ndnSIM documentation and is intended to help the community use the simulator for NDN experimentation. It is not intended to present the principles or the design of the NDN architecture and communication model. We invite you to join our mailing list to see and participate in discussions about ndnSIM implementation and simulations in general (mailing list archives).

Getting Started

Advanced Topics

ndnSIM tutorial

ndnSIM Versions

Publications

If you are referring to ndnSIM in a published work, please cite the following papers, not just the ndnSIM website. Thank you!

  • For ndnSIM >= 2.0:
    • S. Mastorakis, A. Afanasyev, and L. Zhang, "On the Evolution of ndnSIM: an Open-Source Simulator for NDN Experimentation," ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), July 2017 (PDF) (BibTex)
    • S. Mastorakis, A. Afanasyev, I. Moiseenko, and L. Zhang, “ndnSIM 2: An updated NDN simulator for NS-3,” NDN, Technical Report NDN-0028, Revision 2, 2016 (PDF) (BibTex)
  • For ndnSIM 1.0:
    • A. Afanasyev, I. Moiseenko, and L. Zhang, “ndnSIM: NDN simulator for NS-3,” NDN, Technical Report NDN-0005, 2012 (PDF) (BibTex)

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