Overall ndnSIM 2.0 documentation

ndnSIM 2.0 is a new release of NS-3 based Named Data Networking (NDN) simulator that went through extensive refactoring and rewriting. The key new features of the new version:

• ndnSIM no longer re-implements basic NDN primitives and directly uses implementation from ndn-cxx library (NDN C++ library with eXperimental eXtensions).
• All NDN forwarding and management is implemented directly using source code of Named Data Networking Forwarding Daemon (NFD)
• Packet format changed to the NDN packet format

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Parts of the documentation:

ndnSIM 2.0 tutorial Introduction what is ndnSIM, how to get support, and what is in the package Getting started portability, requirements, downloading, compiling, simulating ndnSIM helpers very important components of ndnSIM for writing simulation scenarios Content Store several different build-in content store implementations: LRU, LFU, and others Forwarding Strategies experimenting with different build-in and custom Interest/Data forwarding strategies ndnSIM applications reference applications for network-leverl evaluations Obtaining metrics obtaining and visualizing metrics from simulation runs Simulation examples basic tutorial examples

ndnSIM API documentation doxygen-generated API documentation FAQs frequently asked questions (with answers!) How to use OpenMPI speeding up simulations by using OpenMPI for parallel execution of scenarios ndnSIM research papers list of ndnSIM-related papers

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Release Notes Reporting bugs About the documentation

ndnSIM license Copyright

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

S. Mastorakis, A. Afanasyev, I. Moiseenko, and L. Zhang, “ndnSIM 2.0: A new version of the NDN simulator for NS-3,” NDN, Technical Report NDN-0028, 2015 (PDF) (BibTex)

A. Afanasyev, I. Moiseenko, and L. Zhang, “ndnSIM: NDN simulator for NS-3,” NDN, Technical Report NDN-0005, 2012 (PDF) (BibTex)