ndnSIM Release Notes ==================== This file contains ndnSIM release notes. All of the ndnSIM documentation is accessible from the `ndnSIM website `__. Release 2.2 (Changes since release 2.1) --------------------------------------- Release date: November 11, 2016 Overview ~~~~~~~~ - The submodules of NFD and ndn-cxx have been both upgraded to version 0.4.1 (:issue:`3560`). Features of NFD: * Face system is refactored. * Data Retrieval using full names is fixed. * Allow setting CS capacity to 0. * LinkService provides an "adaptation" layer to translate between NDN packets and data blocks communicated through Transport. * Face provides combines Transport and LinkServices, providing high-level interface to work with Interest/Data/Nack packets inside NFD. * Networking NACK in pipelines and best-route strategy. * Refactored implementation of NFD management. * Interest forwarding processes Link included in interest packets. Features of ndn-cxx: * LocalControlHeader for special signaling between application and NFD has been replaced with NDNLPv2 signaling. * NDNLPv2 Network NACK support in Face abstraction. * New API in Face class to remove all pending Interests. .. note:: In order to retrieve the marked versions of ndn-cxx and NFD, use ``--recursive`` option to the git clone command or run ``git submodule update --init`` after clone, pull, or merge. - Replace NetDeviceFace with NetDeviceFaceLinkService and AppFace with AppFaceModel to match NFD's v0.4+ Face model (:issue:`3560`). ndnSIM (for now) intentionally uses LinkService instead of Transport for optimization purposes and in order to preserve ns3::Packet Tags. This may be fixed in the future when there is a different mechanism to propagate ns3 Tags. .. note:: This version of dnSIM does not include support for NDNLPv2 and, thus, cannot yet be used to simulate network-level NACKs across the simulated nodes. This will be addressed in the next release of ndnSIM. - ndnSIM no longer officially support Ubuntu Linux 12.04, as it now requires a more modern compiler version and dependent libraries. New features ~~~~~~~~~~~~ - The NetDevice address is now represented as a LocalUri instance for NetDevice-based Faces (:issue:`2665`). - Enable configurability of NFD's managers (:issue:`3328`). The managers of NFD can be enabled/disabled as specified in a simulation scenario. Improvements and bug fixes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Bugfix in RandomPolicy for the "old-style" ContentStore implementation. - Updates of the `ndnSIM 2 Technical Report `__ Technical Report became up-to-date with the latest version of ndnSIM. Please see report's change-log for more detailed information. - Updates of the ndnSIM documentation (:issue:`3835`) * Updated out-dated statements about NFD's CS implementation (:issue:`3827`). * Added explanation about the limited support of NDNLPv2 and its implications. * Fixed description of the ConsumerBatches application. * Added homebrew instructions for dependency installation on OS X. * Added specification of ndn::CsTracer output format. ******************************************************************************** Release 2.1 (Changes since release 2.0) --------------------------------------- Release date: September 4, 2015 Overview ~~~~~~~~ - Integration with ndn-cxx and NFD codebases has been refactored to include ndn-cxx and NFD repositories as git submodules within ndnSIM repository (:issue:`3138`). This refactoring simplifies upgrading ndn-cxx and NFD to new versions and prevents old simulation code to break because of API changes in newer versions of ndn-cxx library. .. note:: In order to retrieve the marked versions of ndn-cxx and NFD, use ``--recursive`` option to the git clone command or run ``git submodule update --init`` after clone, pull, or merge. - The official home for ndnSIM codebase has been moved to `GitHub named-data-ndnSIM organization `__ (:issue:`3123`): * `ndnSIM codebase `__ * `Modified version of ndn-cxx `__ * `Modified version of NFD `__ * `Modified version of NS-3 `__ * `Modified version of python bindings generator `__ - Modified version of NS-3 was updated to (rebased on top of) version 2.23-dev, with ndnSIM codebase adjusted to reflect API changes (:issue:`3122`) - NFD and ndn-cxx has been upgraded to version 0.3.4 (:issue:`3125`) New features ~~~~~~~~~~~~ - ndnSIM-specific version of :ndnsim:`ndn::Face` (:issue:`2370`) The updated version of :ndnsim:`ndn::Face` specially designed to allow writing simulation applications in the same way as real applications. It is also possible to directly use codebase of the existing applications to drive simulations, provided that the codebase meets or can be adjusted to meet the requirements listed in :doc:`guide-to-simulate-real-apps`. - Full support for NFD'S RIB manager (:issue:`2370`) .. note:: RIB manager support is currently available only for applications based on ndn-cxx. :ndnsim:`FibHelper::AddRoute` and :ndnsim:`FibHelper::RemoveRoute` used by :ndnsim:`ndn::Producer` and :ndnsim:`ndn::GlobalRoutingHelper` are currently interacting directly with NFD's FIB manager. This issue will be resolved in the next release of ndnSIM (:issue:`3121`) - Tutorial and example on how to speed up simulations with MPI module of NS-3: ``__ - Two new helpers to simplify writing basic simulation scenarios: - :ndnsim:`ScenarioHelper` leverages C++11 constructs to write scenarios. Example: .. code-block:: c++ ScenarioHelper helper; helper.createTopology({ {"1", "2"}, {"2", "3"} }); helper.addRoutes({ {"1", "2", "/prefix", 1}, {"2", "3", "/prefix", 1} }); helper.addApps({ {"1", "ns3::ndn::ConsumerCbr", {{"Prefix", "/prefix"}, {"Frequency", "1"}}, "0s", "100s"}, {"3", "ns3::ndn::Producer", {{"Prefix", "/prefix"}, {"PayloadSize", "1024"}}, "0s", "100s"} }); - :ndnsim:`FactoryCallbackApp` simplifies creation of basic apps without creating a separate class that is derived from ``ns3::Applications``. Example: .. code-block:: c++ class SomeApp { public: SomeApp(size_t initParameter); ... }; FactoryCallbackApp::Install(node, [] () -> shared_ptr { return make_shared(42); }) .Start(Seconds(1.01)); Improvements and bug fixes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Updates of ndnSIM documentation * Updated the structure for the `ndnSIM website index page `__ * Updated installation instructions to reflect refactoring and relocation of ndnSIM codebase * API documentation (doxygen) improvements * Updated list of ndnSIM research papers - The NDN stack can now be updated to handle any simulation topology changes after its initial installation on a node (:issue:`2717`) - Application ID that appears in :ndnsim:`ndn::AppDelayTracer` output is now ID of the application on the node, not ID of the application face that was used previously. - FibHelper has been extended to support route removals (:issue:`2358`) - ndnSIM codebase now partially covered with unit-tests (:issue:`2369`, :issue:`3059`, :issue:`2783`) - Bugfixes: * In :ndnsim:`ndn::GlobalRoutingHelper::CalculateAllPossibleRoutes` that caused crash in some cases (:issue:`2535`) * In FailLink and Uplink methods of :ndnsim:`ndn::LinkControlHelper` class that affected more links than requested (:issue:`2783`) * With hop count of data packets retrieved from the Contest Store of NFD (:issue:`2764`) * In :ndnsim:`ndn::Producer` application that caused a wrong dummy signature to be added to the constructed data packets (:issue:`2927`) ******************************************************************************** Release 2.0 (Changes since release 1.0) --------------------------------------- Release date: January 13, 2015 Overview ~~~~~~~~ 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) `__. The current code is based on ``a22a2172611b1cb93b2e2f53d9d5da122b384f3e`` commit of `NFD repository `__. Note RIB Manager is not yet available in ndnSIM. - Packet format changed to the `NDN packet format `__. - Code style changes to conform to `ndn-cxx Code Style and Coding Guidelines `__ This change also includes renaming of the header and source files: ``*.h`` -> ``*.hpp``, ``*.cc`` -> ``*.cpp`` - ndnSIM now uses C++11. New Features ~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Integration with NFD codebase. - A realistic behavior is added to the simulations. - Forwarding plane extensions can be used in both ndnSIM simulations and real NFD deployment. - Per namespace forwarding strategies for different namespaces (one strategy per namespace). - New examples: - ``ndn-load-balancer`` - ``ndn-grid-multiple-strategies`` - ``ndn-different-strategy-per-prefix`` - Basic examples using python bindings: ``ndn-simple.py`` and ``ndn-grid.py`` - Use of the the full-featured NDN packet format. - Full-featured support for Interest selectors. - Full-featured crypto operations can be simulated (disabled by default). - FibHelper to manage FIB entries. - StrategyChoiceHelper to manage per-namespace forwarding strategy selection. Changes ~~~~~~~ - HopCount tracing now includes only one way network-level hop count (e.g., the number of physical links traversed by a packet). Previously, this tracing was round-trip and included applications hops. - Python bindings have changed and, due to limitations of pybindgen, currently cover a smaller subset of C++ code (`Task #2341 `__). - LinkControlHelper now uses ErrorRate to simulate link failure/recovery. Previously it was relying on Up/Down flag on NDN level. - The Face abstraction of NFD is now used. Bug fixes ~~~~~~~~~ - Fix processing files with customized LossRate or Queue model in AnnotatedTopologyReader `Bug #2354 `__. Removals ~~~~~~~~ - PyNDN emulation - (temporarily) ApiFace. Will be replaced with emulation of ndn-cxx ``ndn::Face`` in future releases (`Issue #2370 `__). - (temporarily) UdpFace, TcpFace (`Issue #2371 `__). - Limits, LimitsWindow, LimitsRate. - PIT, FIB with "replacement" policies. - Old deprecated packet formats.