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. dc6fae8 model+utils: Enable SatisfiedInterests and TimedOutInterests trace sources in L3Protocol by Alexander Afanasyev · 10 years ago
2. 60a7b62 docs: Updating copyright notices in files by Alexander Afanasyev · 10 years ago
3. da904f2 utils: Fixes compilation of tracers by Spyridon Mastorakis · 10 years ago
4. e4f0d3c model: Removing more legacy code and make code to compile by Spyridon Mastorakis · 10 years ago
5. 53e922f ndnSIM-v2: Initial implementation by Spyridon Mastorakis · 10 years ago
6. be55cf6 src: Updating code style to conform (more or less) to ndn-cxx style by Alexander Afanasyev · 10 years ago
7. 0c39537 build: Fixing of includes by Alexander Afanasyev · 10 years ago
8. 76f8f65 src: Renaming files according to ndn-cxx naming convention by Alexander Afanasyev · 10 years ago
9. 012760b ndnSIM-v2: Removing old and legacy code by Alexander Afanasyev · 10 years ago
10. 260e409 utils/tracers: An optimized way to connect to L2 and ndn.CS traces by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
11. db5f3b6 utils/tracers: Adding *::Destroy () method in Tracers by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago v0.5-rc2
12. 3fe94dc utils/tracers: Modifying (simplifying) interface for ndnSIM tracers by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
13. 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
14. 772f51b src: Global renaming ContentObject -> Data by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
15. 7920651 docs: Update documentation and Doxygen documentation generation by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
16. faa01f9 model: Another set of refactoring/renaming to make code compile (not tested yet) by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
17. bf93929 tracers: New metrics in L3RateTracer by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago v0.4.3
18. 5352af3 tracers: Extending helper API in tracers by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
19. a68783a utils: Adding ability to install ndn::L3AggregateTracer on individual nodes by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
20. 6692e0b utils/tracers: Fixing bug that resulted in segmentation faults in L3(Aggregate|Rate)Tracer by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
21. 37b84c5 model+tracers: Implementing ability to trace satisfied/timed out interests by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
22. dca0f37 utils: Extending l2-rate-tracer to include raw packet counts by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
23. f1a4f1e utils: (Re-)enabling printing "dropped" Interests/Data seen by ndn::ForwardingStrategy by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
24. 73f06f6 all: Adding typedefs near forward declarations of Interest/ContentObject/Name by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
25. eae83ee all: InterestHeader and ContentObjectHeader refactoring to Interest and ContentObject by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
26. c759762 utils: draft implementation for queue drop tracer by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
27. fc8425c utils: Porting several new IPv4 tracers from the old code. Extending ndn-app-delay-tracer by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
28. 4916586 helper+utils: Small extension of global routing helper and restoring several IP-based metric collectors, including Ipv4RateL3Tracer by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago v0.2
29. 1a0fff6 apps+model+utils: Implementing Interest/Data hop counting using new PacketTag by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
30. 400aae1 apps+utils: Correcting Interest-Delay tracing by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
31. b9faa44 utils: Bug with new app-delay-tracer. FullDelay was connected to the wrong tracesource by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
32. db64ff1 app+utils+doc: Adding application-level trace helper to record Interest-Data delays by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
33. b1d6b03 tracers: simplification of ndn::CsTracer (there no real need for virtual calls) by Alexander Afanasyev · 11 years ago
34. 8628799 utils: Adding content store trace helper class (thanks to Xiaoyan Hu) by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
35. 0b9e3bd docs: adding doxygen description to ndn-l3-tracer.h by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
36. 5931480 tracers+docs: Correcting compilation and installation of trace helpers by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago
37. c9d5c1a utils: Adding some NDN network-layer rate tracers by Alexander Afanasyev · 12 years ago