NS-3 Summer of Code 2011: Results Announced!

NS-3 Summer of Code 2011: Results Announced!

We have selected three students for the NS-3 Summer of Code 2011. The accepted list of projects are listed below:

• Ashwin Narayan with "Click-MAC extensions for ns-3-click". Mentored by Ruben Merz and Lalith Suresh.
• Pankaj Gupta with "LTE-RRC extensions". Mentored by Giuseppe Piro and Francesco Capozzi.
• Atishay Jain with "Ipv6 Global Routing". Mentored by Tom Henderson and Mitch Watrous.

Congratulations to all of you and welcome to the ns-3 community, we look forward to working with you over the summer!

Announcing the NS-3 Summer of Code

We are pleased to announce the NS-3 Summer of Code (NSoC) 2011 programme!

The NSoC is a summer program to bring in student developers into the ns-3 community. Any student (Undergraduate, Masters or PhD) currently registered in an accredited institution is free to apply. Students will be paired with mentors from the ns-3 development team, and will work on focused projects throughout the summer. The main goals of the program are:

• Attract new student developers who’re eager about contributing and, if they like the experience, will join the project for the long term.
• Provide students with a good mentoring programme, allow them to be a part of the ns-3 development process, and help them pick up knowledge and skills that would be helpful in their future careers.

Unlike Google Summer of Code, NSoC is not a paid summer position, and neither students nor mentors will be paid. Students who successfully complete the project will receive recognition on the ns-3 web site, and a commemorative shirt. Mentors will be recognized as well.

At most three students will be selected for this programme. So students, what are you waiting for? Look through the ideas page (link given below) and start working on your applications as soon as possible!

The timeline for the programme is as follows:

April 5th - April 15th: Students apply for NSoC with project proposals.
April 15th - April 30th: NS-3 developers review project proposals.
May 1st: Results announced.
May 2nd - May 22nd: Community Interaction/Introductions.
May 23rd: Coding Period.
July 11th - July 15th: Mid Term Code Review + feedback.
August 15th - August 19th: End Term Code Review + feedback.


Important links:

NSoC page
Project Ideas page
Student application template

Friday, January 7, 2011

ns-3.10 has been released and is available from the releases directory. Some significant additions/changes to ns-3 are as follows:

• the PyViz visualizer has been merged to the main tree
• a new TCP implementation for IPv4, including default support for TCP NewReno congestion control
• a bulk file transfer application
• DSDV routing for IPv4
• support for IEEE 802.11g
• the initial set of models for 3GPP LTE (from GSOC 2010)
• energy support for the UAN module and a Li-Ion energy model (from GSOC 2010)
• migration of the trace-based regression tests to the new test framework
• reorganisation of the high MAC of the 802.11 model
• support for modeling energy consumption in WiFi devices
• conversion of project documentation to Sphinx

For a more complete changelog, please look at the full RELEASE_NOTES.

Thanks to Tom Henderson and Josh Pelkey for serving as release managers. And to all our community members, keep the contributions flowing!