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    <p>
We invite you to <a href="http://www.lists.cs.ucla.edu/mailman/listinfo/ndnsim" target="_blank">join our mailing list</a> to see and participate in discussions about ndnSIM implementation and simulations in general (<a href="http://www.lists.cs.ucla.edu/pipermail/ndnsim/" target="_blank">mailing list archives</a>).
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        <h2>Getting Started</h2>
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          <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("intro") }}">Introduction</a><br/>
            <span class="linkdescr">what is ndnSIM, how to get support, and what is in the package</span></p>
          <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("getting-started") }}">Downloading and Compiling ndnSIM</a><br/>
            <span class="linkdescr">requirements, downloading, compiling, simulating</span></p>
          <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("faq") }}">FAQs</a><br/>
            <span class="linkdescr">frequently asked questions (with answers!)</span></p>
          <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("examples") }}">Simulation examples</a><br/>
            <span class="linkdescr">basic tutorial examples</span></p>
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      <td width="50%" valign="top">
        <h2>Advanced Topics</h2>
        <div class="tile">
          <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="doxygen/annotated.html">ndnSIM API documentation</a><br/>
            <span class="linkdescr">generated documentation of ndnSIM API</span></p>
          <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("parallel-simulations") }}">Parallelize simulations using OpenMPI</a><br/>
            <span class="linkdescr">how to use OpenMPI to parallelize execution of simulation scenarios</span></p>
          <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("guide-to-simulate-real-apps") }}">Simulating real applications</a><br/>
            <span class="linkdescr">guide on how to simulate real application that are written against ndn-cxx library</span></p>
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        <h2>ndnSIM tutorial</h2>
        <div class="tile">
          <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("helpers") }}">ndnSIM helpers</a><br/>
            <span class="linkdescr">very important components of ndnSIM for writing simulation scenarios</span></p>
          <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("cs") }}">Content Store</a><br/>
            <span class="linkdescr">several different build-in content store implementations: LRU, LFU, and others</span></p>
          <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("fw") }}">Forwarding Strategies</a><br/>
            <span class="linkdescr">experimenting with different build-in and custom Interest/Data forwarding strategies</span></p>
          <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("applications") }}">ndnSIM applications</a><br/>
            <span class="linkdescr">reference applications for network-leverl evaluations</span></p>
          <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("metric") }}">Obtaining metrics</a><br/>
            <span class="linkdescr">obtaining and visualizing metrics from simulation runs</span></p>
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      <td width="50%" valign="top">
        <h2>ndnSIM Versions</h2>
        <div class="tile">
          <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="#">ndnSIM 2.1</a><br/>
            <span class="linkdescr">latest version</span></p>
          <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="http://ndnsim.net/2.0/">ndnSIM 2.0</a><br/>
          <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="http://ndnsim.net/1.0/">ndnSIM 1.0</a><br/>
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        <h2>Publications</h2>
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          <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("ndnsim-research-papers") }}">ndnSIM-related publications</a><br/>
            <span class="linkdescr">general papers about ndnSIM, research papers that use ndnSIM</span></p>
          <p>If you are referring to ndnSIM in a published work, please cite the following papers, not just the ndnSIM website. Thank you!
          <ul>
            <li>
              S. Mastorakis, A. Afanasyev, I. Moiseenko, and L. Zhang, &#8220;ndnSIM 2.0: A new version of the NDN simulator for NS-3,&#8221; NDN, Technical Report NDN-0028, 2015 (<a class="reference external" href="http://named-data.net/techreport/ndn-0028-1-ndnsim-v2.pdf">PDF</a>) (<a class="reference external" href="http://lasr.cs.ucla.edu/afanasyev/bibwiki/bibtex/399">BibTex</a>)
            </li>
            <li>
            A. Afanasyev, I. Moiseenko, and L. Zhang, &#8220;ndnSIM: NDN simulator for NS-3,&#8221; NDN, Technical Report NDN-0005, 2012 (<a class="reference external" href="http://named-data.net/wp-content/uploads/TRndnsim.pdf">PDF</a>) (<a class="reference external" href="http://lasr.cs.ucla.edu/afanasyev/bibwiki/bibtex/367">BibTex</a>)
            </li>
          </ul>
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      <td width="50%" valign="top">
        <h2>Miscellaneous</h2>
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          <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("RELEASE_NOTES") }}">Release Notes</a><br/>
            <span class="linkdescr">new features, changes, bug fixes, deprecations, and removals</span></p>

          <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="http://redmine.named-data.net/projects/ndnsim">Reporting bugs</a><br/>
            <span class="linkdescr"><a href="http://redmine.named-data.net/projects/ndnsim" target="_blank">ndnSIM Redmine</a>,
            <span class="linkdescr"><a href="https://github.com/named-data-ndnSIM/ndnSIM/pulls" target="_blank">GitHub pull requests</a></span></p>

          <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="http://www.lists.cs.ucla.edu/mailman/listinfo/ndnsim" target="_blank">ndnSIM mailing list</a><br/>
            <span class="linkdescr"><a href="http://www.lists.cs.ucla.edu/pipermail/ndnsim/" target="_blank">mailing list archives</a></span></p>

          <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("meta/authors") }}">ndnSIM Team</a></p>
          <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("meta/copying") }}">Copyright and License</a></p>
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