Welcome

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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Contents:

• Introduction
  • More documentation
  • Support
  • A very short guide to the code
  • Logging
• Getting Started
  • Portability
  • Requirements
  • Downloading ndnSIM source
  • Compiling and running ndnSIM
  • Simulating using ndnSIM
    • Examples of template-based simulations
• ndnSIM helpers
  • StackHelper
    • Routing
      • Manually routes
      • Global routing controller
      • Default routes
    • Content Store
    • Pending Interest Table
    • Forwarding strategy
  • AppHelper
• Content Store
  • Simple content stores
    • Least Recently Used (LRU) (default)
    • First-In-First-Out (FIFO)
    • Random
    • Nocache
  • Content stores with entry lifetime tracking
    • Least Recently Used (LRU)
    • First-In-First-Out (FIFO)
    • Random
  • Content stores respecting freshness field of ContentObjects
    • Least Recently Used (LRU)
    • First-In-First-Out (FIFO)
    • Random
    • Example
• Forwarding Strategies
  • Available forwarding strategies
    • Basic forwarding strategies
      • Flooding
      • SmartFlooding
      • BestRoute
    • Strategies with Interest limits
      • Usage examples
  • Writing your own custom strategy
  • Extending strategy
  • Example of using custom strategy
• ndnSIM applications
  • Reference applications
    • ConsumerCbr
    • ConsumerZipfMandelbrot
    • ConsumerBatches
    • ConsumerWindow
    • Producer
  • Custom applications
    • Customer example
    • Producer example (Interest hijacker)
    • Dumb requester

• Examples
  • Simple scenario
  • 9-node grid example
  • 9-node grid example using topology plugin
  • 6-node bottleneck topology
  • 11-node 2-bottleneck topology with custom forwarding strategy
  • 3-level binary tree with packet-level trace helpers
  • 3-level binary tree with content store trace helper
  • 3-level binary tree with application-level Interest-Data delay tracer
  • 3-node topology with Content Store respecting freshness field of ContentObjects
  • 1-node topology with custom application
  • Simple scenario with pcap dump
  • Simple scenario with link failures
  • 25-node tree topology with L2Tracer
  • 3-node topology with periodic tracing of PIT
• Obtaining metrics
  • Packet-level trace helpers
  • Example of packet drop tracer (L2Tracer)
  • Content store trace helper
  • Application-level trace helper
  • Other types of stats
• ndnSIM packet format
  • Basic field types
  • NDN Packet Type
  • Interest
  • ContentObject
• FAQ
  • Boost libraries
  • Visualizer problems
  • Code questions
  • General questions
• ndnSIM research papers
  • General papers about ndnSIM
  • Research papers that use ndnSIM

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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)