Release 2.0

Overview

ndnSIM 2.0 is a new release of NS-3 based Named Data Networking (NDN)
simulator that went through extensive refactoring and rewriting. The key
new features of the new version:

-   ndnSIM no longer re-implements basic NDN primitives and directly
    uses implementation from ndn-cxx library (NDN C++ library with
    eXperimental eXtensions).

-   All NDN forwarding and management is implemented directly using
    source code of Named Data Networking Forwarding Daemon (NFD). The
    current code is based on a22a2172611b1cb93b2e2f53d9d5da122b384f3e
    commit of NFD repository.

Note RIB Manager is not yet available in ndnSIM.

-   Packet format changed to the NDN packet format.

-   Code style changes to conform to ndn-cxx Code Style and Coding
    Guidelines This change also includes renaming of the header and
    source files: *.h -> *.hpp, *.cc -> *.cpp

-   ndnSIM now uses C++11.

New Features

-   Integration with NFD codebase:
-   A realistic behavior is added to the simulations.
-   Forwarding plane extensions can be used in both ndnSIM simulations
    and real NFD deployment.
-   Per namespace forwarding strategies for different namespaces (one
    strategy per namespace).
-   New examples:
-   ndn-load-balancer
-   ndn-grid-multiple-strategies
-   ndn-different-strategy-per-prefix
-   Basic examples using python bindings: ndn-simple.py and ndn-grid.py
-   Use of the the full-featured NDN packet format.
-   Full-featured support for Interest selectors.
-   Full-featured crypto operations can be simulated (disabled by
    default).
-   FibHelper to manage FIB entries.
-   StrategyChoiceHelper to manage per-namespace forwarding strategy
    selection.

Changes

-   HopCount tracing now includes only one way network-level hop count
    (e.g., the number of physical links traversed by a packet).
    Previously, this tracing was round-trip and included applications
    hops.
-   Python bindings have changed and, due to limitations of pybindgen,
    currently cover a smaller subset of C++ code (Task #2341).
-   LinkControlHelper now uses ErrorRate to simulate link
    failure/recovery. Previously it was relying on Up/Down flag on NDN
    level.
-   The Face abstraction of NFD is now used.

Bug fixes

-   Fix processing files with customized LossRate or Queue model in
    AnnotatedTopologyReader Bug #2354.

Removals

-   PyNDN emulation
-   (temporarily) ApiFace. Will be replaced with emulation of ndn-cxx
    ndn::Face in future releases (Issue #2370).
-   (temporarily) UdpFace, TcpFace (Issue #2371).
-   Limits, LimitsWindow, LimitsRate.
-   PIT, FIB with "replacement" policies.
-   Old deprecated packet formats.
  1. 0605d26 Nonce generation bug fixed in Consumer app by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  2. 2b4e149 Forwarding strategy enumeration by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  3. 25f7d4d Flooding forwarding strategy added by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  4. e4aae55 small fix of Consumer Application by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  5. 8accdf6 Small progress on pit/fib interaction by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  6. 3b93629 Update wscript to reflect version update of ./waf by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  7. c5a23e2 Many corrections to face/local-face/net-device-face/fib/pit. Now by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  8. cf133f0 Initial steps for Interest packet processing by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  9. 09595dd Merge remote-tracking branch 'git.irl/master' by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  10. 78cf0c9 NDN layer now knows how to process ContentObject packets by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  11. 0872371 unit tests by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  12. fa4e263 Pcap example added by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  13. 9d25869 regression test (not completed) by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  14. a67e28c Adding RIT, PIT, FIB, and CS to ccnx-l3-protocol. Some small by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  15. e91ab75 ContentObject and Interest serialization and deserialization seem to by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  16. a962f86 Merge remote-tracking branch 'git.irl/master' by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  17. 85a3bca Debugging and resolving problems with interest serialization/deserialization by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  18. a828e9f fix of interest header test by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  19. 7407704 interest header example by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  20. 3e15eff Unit test for interest header serialization/deserialization by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  21. ae0d652 Adding temporary solution to estimate packet size. Should be changed to by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  22. 5769923 Update of Python bindings by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  23. 152cf11 Small updates to reflect changes in CcnxNameComponents by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  24. 24d2166 Merge remote-tracking branch 'git.irl/master' by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  25. a98cdd2 First approximation of PIT by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  26. a121411 Producer and consumer helpers by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  27. 8196d2e Consumer and producer applications by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  28. 1cf6b0a Receive method for localFace by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  29. 888161d m_contentstore was moved from l3-protocol to ccnx by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  30. 90d66ce Removing old name-components.* and adding missing implementation of the by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  31. 7fd74f9 Implementing first approximation of FIB by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  32. d26e682 file and header renaming by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  33. 946b87b CcnxInterestSender and its helper fixes by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  34. 171afe1 Interest Sender Helper was added by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  35. 2bd1bc3 Refactoring of Name::Components into CcnxNameComponents by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  36. fccdb9e Implementing RIT (also using Boost.MultiIndex) by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  37. c706f26 Ccnx-interest-sender, not complete yet by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  38. 3cc8efe fix of wscript. Alex, stop breaking it! :) Visualizer still doesn't work by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  39. 2922365 headers fix by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  40. 3715619 Merge remote-tracking branch 'git.irl/master' by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  41. f21c5be Implement forgotten Timestamp and Nonce visitors and appropriate by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  42. e709f3d Make everything compile by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  43. 8b37905 Checkpoint. Reorganizing ccnb parsing into many small files. by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  44. dd32de8 Forgot to actually enforce limit on content store. Solved. by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  45. 070aa48 Implementing content store using Boost.MultiIndex container by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  46. 7dd43be Annotated topology reader refactoring. Now example is cleaner. by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  47. 0ab833e Solving compilation problems, adding more comments. Modified ccnx-test example by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  48. e21bc03 Merge remote-tracking branch 'git.irl/master' by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  49. 56f79ea Updating code to the state that it compiles by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  50. 1c570bc CcnxContentStore with BOOST hash by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  51. ab1d560 Adding more documentation. Now CcnxFace defines an virtual interface to by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  52. eface60 Update of Python bindings, commenting out broken code by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  53. b919a3a Merge remote-tracking branch 'git.irl/master' by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  54. 7112f48 Repair bug in ccnb parsing. First steps in adding correct documentation tags by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  55. f9a4fb4 example of using annotated-topology-reader with the sample file by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  56. 1eff17d Annotated topology reader added and external dependencies to modules 'topology-reader', 'visualiziation' added to wscript by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  57. a7d9150 fix of TypedID bug in CCNxContentObjectTail by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  58. 834f35c Implementing visitor pattern for CCNx message parsing. Needs debugging. by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  59. 2a5df20 Finalizing packet serialization. Set boost requirement (module will not be compiled without boost) by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  60. c74a602 First steps in CCNx packet coding. ccnx_encode* routines rewritten in NS3 style (using NS3::Buffer) by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  61. 607e3e7 Merge remote-tracking branch 'ns3irl/ccnx-stack' by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  62. 897005b Merge remote-tracking branch 'ns3irl/master' by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  63. 45b92d4 More progress on CCNx stack. Now we have helpers. Everything compiles, but not yet working by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  64. 9825610 Adding more components to CCNx stack by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  65. 08d984e First approximation of CCNx protocol stack by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  66. 6b583af ContentStore with hash table library were added by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  67. 2536e20 Moving apps back to apps/ folder. Finally worked out the problem with headers by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  68. 8a677dd Initial routines for ContentObjectHeader. Another round of moving files around by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  69. c166cd3 python binding bug is fixed by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  70. 8c7784a Rename ccn/*.c to ccn/*.cc by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  71. 3a6ea5c New InterestHeader implementation (with a fake serialization for now) by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  72. 02fb706 autogenerated bindings and prototype of traffic sink by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  73. 404c079 Compiles, but almost everything is commented out. by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  74. f583ef2 Some c++ tricks. Not finished by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  75. 43e7025 Small source movements (ccn_* to ccn/). Small change of NameBuilder implementation by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  76. b085f74 Merge remote-tracking branch 'git.irl/master' by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  77. 6b997c5 Adding emacs header-lines and copyright notices by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  78. 9b273ce Canonical helper for InterestGenerator was added by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  79. 42b4924 simple Interest Generator was added by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  80. 1f60383 NameBuilder for more convenient CCNx name construction by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  81. 7e254b7 Content ns3 packet by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  82. 5881eb1 Interest ns-3 packet by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  83. 59c6221 TimeoutHeader and NonceHeader for Interest ns-3 packets by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  84. 08a98a4 InterestPacket, ContentPacket, Face classes added by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  85. f72210b Merge remote-tracking branch 'git.irl/master' by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  86. 71062f3 Removing *.pyc, adding stuff into .gitignore by Alexander Afanasyev · 13 years ago
  87. a9b20d1 file extensions changed - ns-3 sometimes doesn't build *.c files by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  88. 54a6bba settings for external dependency to OpenSSL by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  89. c115fba low level name and packet parsing was added (You may edit external dependency to OpenSSL in root wscript file) by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  90. 1762af7 Module template now builds into ns-3 by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago
  91. 53fb2e5 Added some untracked files by Ilya Moiseenko · 13 years ago