Overall ndnSIM documentation

The ndnSIM is NS-3 module that implements Named Data Networking (NDN) communication model, the clean slate Internet design. ndnSIM is specially optimized for simulation purposes and has a cleaner and more extensible internal structure comparing to the existing NDN implementation (NDNx).

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Parts of the documentation:

ndnSIM 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 differnet 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!) ndnSIM packet format definition of the optimized default packet format ndnSIM research papers list of ndnSIM-related papers

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ndnSIM license Copyright

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

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