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. 60a7b62 docs: Updating copyright notices in files by Alexander Afanasyev · 10 years ago
  2. 89046c1 apps+helper+utils: Fixes of consumer and producer apps to work with the new codebase by Mickey Sweatt · 10 years ago
  3. e4f0d3c model: Removing more legacy code and make code to compile by Spyridon Mastorakis · 10 years ago
  4. 53e922f ndnSIM-v2: Initial implementation by Spyridon Mastorakis · 10 years ago
  5. be55cf6 src: Updating code style to conform (more or less) to ndn-cxx style by Alexander Afanasyev · 10 years ago
  6. 0c39537 build: Fixing of includes by Alexander Afanasyev · 10 years ago
  7. 76f8f65 src: Renaming files according to ndn-cxx naming convention by Alexander Afanasyev · 10 years ago
  8. 012760b ndnSIM-v2: Removing old and legacy code by Alexander Afanasyev · 10 years ago
  9. 7606f70 apps/producer: Include in the Data packet timestamp field the actual time the packet was created by José Quevedo · 11 years ago
  10. 6eba36f src: One more set of renaming: ndn-content-object.h|cc is renamed to ndn-data.h|cc by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
  11. 772f51b src: Global renaming ContentObject -> Data by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
  12. 7920651 docs: Update documentation and Doxygen documentation generation by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
  13. eec89ba model: Adding exclude filter processing in all content store implementations by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
  14. 9213601 model: Another major change: switching to NDN.cxx API for ndn::Name by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
  15. a89bc10 model: Slight modification with wire format processing by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
  16. e722148 apps: Adding ability to ndn::Producer to configure desired fake signature and key locator (key name) by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
  17. e4795ae model+ndn.cxx+apps: New application template (CallbackBasedApp) that can be used to prototype NS-3 applications in python by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
  18. 7960606 model: A basic implementation of ndn::ApiFace that can be used as an NDN handler in any "normal" NS-3 application by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
  19. faa01f9 model: Another set of refactoring/renaming to make code compile (not tested yet) by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
  20. 5bee19e model: First set of major API changes and reorganizations by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
  21. fdd4541 apps: Fixing bug with setting Size/MaxSeq in ndn::ConsumerWindow by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
  22. ee4ce7e apps: Adding MaxSeq parameter to ndn::ConsumerWindow as an alternative to Size parameter by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago v0.4.1
  23. 89e688a apps: Fixing bug with randomization configuration of ndn::ConsumerCbr by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
  24. ce8684f apps: Fixing bug with ns3::ndn::ConsumerWindow::InFlight trace source by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
  25. 79b2fb3 apps: Solving a serious bug #33 in ndn::ConsumerWindow by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago v0.3
  26. 462a56b apps: *BUG* Solving a small bug with ndn::ConsumerZipfMandelbrot, causing excessive memory utilization in some cases (m_N was used before being initialized) by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
  27. 73f06f6 all: Adding typedefs near forward declarations of Interest/ContentObject/Name by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
  28. eae83ee all: InterestHeader and ContentObjectHeader refactoring to Interest and ContentObject by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
  29. cfdc14f all: Replacing deprecated NameComponents class with Name by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
  30. d9a7f19 Issue #25 Replacing usage of TCP RTT estimator with a customized version by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
  31. 5cd9a15 apps: Fixing ability to change q and s attributes in ndn::ConsumerZipfMandelbrot by Saran Tarnoi · 11 years ago
  32. 1fb9fed model+examples: Small corrections with new PIT version, adding an example to use it by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
  33. 8a23752 apps: Removing excessive and unnecessary logging in ndn::Consumer by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago v0.2.3
  34. 91d7c7c apps: Fixing bug in ndn::ConsumerWindow---packet was not (re-)scheduled when NACK was received by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago v0.2.2
  35. d1f7c7b apps: Add more configurability to ndn::ConsumerWindow by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
  36. 3a3ce1a Fixing bugs related to NACKs implementation by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago v0.2.1
  37. 1a0fff6 apps+model+utils: Implementing Interest/Data hop counting using new PacketTag by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
  38. 400aae1 apps+utils: Correcting Interest-Delay tracing by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
  39. db64ff1 app+utils+doc: Adding application-level trace helper to record Interest-Data delays by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
  40. edf24d9 Enabling trace sources for Interest-Data lifetimes by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
  41. f8b0f71 apps: Adding additional NS-3 attribute to control the overall number of sent Interest (previously, application runtime defined total number of Interests) by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  42. 1380010 zipf: Small changes (style and small logic correction) and adding documentation section by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  43. 5a35ca8 change to consumberCbr.h by Shock · 12 years ago
  44. b0f8315 add zipf-mandelbrot support to NDN Interest app consumer by Shock · 12 years ago
  45. c3cc0b3 model: New content store variations: support for content freshness by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  46. c3893b2 apps: small improvement with ndn::ConsumerBatches by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  47. bd9c18e Solving a couple of bugs resulting from the packet format changes. Code compiles, but haven't fully tested yet by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  48. 5d79e68 model: Initial attempt to optimize Interest/Data encoding/decoding via a custom packet format by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  49. e1b2a2d apps: Correcting behavior of ndn::ConsumerWindow. by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  50. 669cafd Fixing "batches.h" header inclusions. by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  51. f5c0774 limits: Introducing modularity for Interest limits by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  52. e1aa9b9 When interest is satisfied from the local cache, the wrong order of by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  53. f383047 Correcting wrong assert in ndn::App. Actually, making this assert to just print an error message instead. by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  54. 08b7d9e More progress with buffers by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  55. 3476edf A slightly modified FwPerFibLimits test. Modified ConsumerBatches by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  56. b18ae02 Memory optimization (removing scheduled events instead of just cancelling them) by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  57. 92d5be1 Regression: RTO in Consumers was not exponentially increased by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  58. cf6dc92 Now everything compiles, but not everything is working yet by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  59. 2b4c947 Another set of refactoring by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  60. 4aac557 First step of refactoring code (ccnx prefix => ndn prefix) by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  61. 33364b6 Implementing face clean up callback in forwarding strategy by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  62. e3d126f Start of serious reorganization by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  63. 1aa4bbc Simplifying a FIB entry modification (now we can do it directly, without notifying the container) by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  64. 11f7bb4 First step in reimplementing CcnxPit. Everything is broken as of right now by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  65. 44bb6ea New implementation of FIB seems to be working now by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  66. 78057c3 Separating interface and implementation of FIB. Right now everything is by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  67. b4fee8b Adding more doxygen documentation by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  68. 4a4ea60 Renaming CcnxLocalFace to CcnxAppFace by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  69. faf9581 Fixing bugs with new fields in ContentObject. Implementing basic support of new fields in CcnxProducer by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  70. 6315ef7 Updating documentation by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  71. de7601a Commening out PathStretch trace-related code (will be available as a patch in plugins/ folder) by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  72. 06d3a61 Small extension of CcnxGlobalRoutingHelper. Removing some old examples by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  73. ce81014 Rescanned bindings to reflect latest rebase of ns-3-base by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  74. 15f9299 Moving TraceSources from CcnxProducer/Consumer to CcnxApp by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  75. 59e6771 Extending CcnxConsumerCbr class. Now it supports option to randomize sending time (uniform or exponential distribution). by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  76. 34a177c Merge remote-tracking branch 'git.irl/car2car' by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  77. a3295ab Change the LOG type of CcnxConsumer and CcnxProducer by Lucas · 12 years ago
  78. 18750bb Adding highway-mobility + CCNx scenario (vanet-ccnx.cc) by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  79. 1180b04 Commenting out RTT increase on NACK. This part should be redesigned!!! by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  80. 812f7ab Adding one more scenario to compute shortest paths after failure by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  81. 1ec705f Adding initial code to implement limited (by time) retransmission in CcnxConsumer by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  82. b8f5139 Don't double RTO on timeout (only for NACKs) by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  83. 3d0c2e0 Reducing retx checking in CcnxConsumer to every 50ms by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  84. 1e9348f CcnxConsumer doubles timeout upon NACK and Timout by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  85. e0e5bd1 Repair bug with sequence number timeouts. There was access to a data field after erasing... by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  86. 3661e23 Adding face metric (along with the total prefix/interface cost) information when printing CcnxFibEntries by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  87. 17acc11 Removing hijacker app. Hijacking is implemented now by changing face states by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  88. 8e0d281 Moving around path weight tagging. Now CcnxFace owns metric field, which is used for tagging. by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  89. 6bff0df Finalizing PathWeight tracing by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  90. e9c9d72 Change in CcnxApp API. Now callbacks also contain pointer of original by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  91. b7ad232 One more change in Consumer API. Now there are more consumers and they by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  92. 94cebd0 CcnxConsumerCbr now is really CBR (no randomization). by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  93. 2c069b9 shortest path calculation added by Ilya Moiseenko · 12 years ago
  94. 4d66de5 Repair critical bug in CcnxConsumer. Due to accidental commenting out a by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  95. 1067197 Merge remote-tracking branch 'git.irl/ilya' by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  96. 098dd76 hijacker application added by Ilya Moiseenko · 12 years ago
  97. 06b42ec Enabling TCP window tracing (there is a trick to do it with by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  98. e4c2ece Tracing window size in CcnxConsumerWindow by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  99. 359bfb7 Implementing window-based CCNx consumer. Adding RTO estimation. by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
  100. 029d38d Creating a pure virtual class CcnxConsumer. CcnxConsumerCbr now by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago