Welcome

The ndnSIM 2.0 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).

We invite you to join our mailing list to see and participate in discussions about ndnSIM implementation and simulations in general (mailing list archives).

Contents:

• Introduction
  • More documentation
  • Support
  • A very short guide to the code
  • Logging
• Getting Started
  • Portability
  • Prerequisites
  • Downloading ndnSIM source
  • Compiling and running ndnSIM
  • Simulating using ndnSIM
    • Examples of template-based simulations
• ndnSIM helpers
  • NDN Stack Helpers
    • Routing
      • Manually routes (FIB Helper)
      • Automatic Shortest Path Routes (Global Routing Helper)
    • Forwarding Strategy
    • Content Store
  • Application Helper
  • Link Control Helper
• NFD’s Content Store
  • CS entry
  • CS
• Old Content Store Implementations
• Forwarding Strategies
  • Available forwarding strategies
  • Writing your own custom strategy
    • Example
    • Example of using custom strategy
• ndnSIM applications
  • Reference applications
    • ConsumerCbr
    • ConsumerZipfMandelbrot
    • ConsumerBatches
    • ConsumerWindow
    • Producer
  • Custom applications
    • Customer example
    • Producer example (Interest hijacker)

• Examples
  • Simple scenario
  • 9-node grid example
  • 9-node grid example using topology plugin
  • 6-node bottleneck topology
  • 11-node 2-bottleneck topology
  • 6-node topology with custom NFD forwarding strategy
  • 9-node grid topology with different forwarding strategies per name prefix
  • 9-node grid topology with different forwarding strategy for each node
  • Simple parallel scenario using MPI
  • 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
  • 1-node topology with custom application
  • Simple scenario with pcap dump
  • Simple scenario with link failures
  • 25-node tree topology with L2Tracer
• Obtaining metrics
  • Packet-level trace helpers
  • Example of packet drop tracer (L2Tracer)
  • Content store trace helper
  • Application-level trace helper
• FAQ
  • Boost libraries
  • Visualizer problems
  • Problems with the gtk python module on OS X
  • Code questions
  • General questions
• How to speed up simulations by parallel execution
• Designing a parallel simulation scenario
• Compiling and running ndnSIM with MPI support
• Simple parallel scenario using MPI
• 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 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)