Welcome

The ndnSIM 2.0 is NS-3 module that implements Named Data Networking (NDN) communication model, the clean slate Internet design.

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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
• FAQ
  • Boost libraries
    • Installing boost libraries to /usr/local
    • Installing boost libraries to a non-privileged location
    • Common pitfalls
  • Visualizer problems
  • Problems with the gtk python module on macOS
  • Code questions
  • General questions
• 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
  • LFID (Loop-Free Inport-Dependent) Routing for ndnSIM
• Best Practices on Using ndnSIM
• 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
  • Misc
• Forwarding Strategies
  • Available forwarding strategies
  • Writing your own custom strategy
    • Example
    • Example of using custom strategy
• ndnSIM applications
  • Reference applications
    • ConsumerCbr
    • ConsumerZipfMandelbrot
    • ConsumerBatches
    • ConsumerWindow
    • ConsumerPcon
    • Producer
  • Custom applications
    • Customer example
    • Producer example (Interest hijacker)
• Obtaining metrics
  • Packet-level trace helpers
    • Example of packet-level trace helpers
  • Example of packet drop tracer (L2Tracer)
  • Content store trace helper
    • Example of content store trace helper
  • Application-level trace helper
    • Example of application-level trace helper
• 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
• Simulating real NDN applications
  • Requirements
  • How to simulate real applications using ndnSIM
  • Example of a real application simulation
• ndnSIM research papers
  • General papers about ndnSIM
  • Research papers that use ndnSIM
• Contributions of the ndnSIM User Community

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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!

For ndnSIM >= 2.0:

• S. Mastorakis, A. Afanasyev, and L. Zhang, “On the Evolution of ndnSIM: an Open-Source Simulator for NDN Experimentation,” ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), July 2017 (PDF, BibTex)
• S. Mastorakis, A. Afanasyev, I. Moiseenko, and L. Zhang, “ndnSIM 2: An updated NDN simulator for NS-3,” NDN, Technical Report NDN-0028, Revision 2, 2016 (PDF, BibTex)

For ndnSIM 1.0:

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