ns-3 Manual

This is the ns-3 Manual. Primary documentation for the ns-3 project is organized as follows:

• Several guides that are version controlled for each release (the latest release) and development tree:
  • Tutorial
  • Installation Guide
  • Manual (this document)
  • Model Library
  • Contributing Guide
• ns-3 Doxygen: Documentation of the public APIs of the simulator
• ns-3 wiki

This document is written in reStructuredText for Sphinx and is maintained in the doc/manual directory of ns-3’s source code. Source file column width is 100 columns.

• Organization
• Simulator
  • Events and Simulator
  • Callbacks
  • Object model
  • Configuration and Attributes
  • Object names
  • RealTime
• Additional Tools
  • Random Variables
  • Hash Functions
  • Tracing
  • Data Collection
  • Statistical Framework
  • Helpers
  • Making Plots using the Gnuplot Class
  • Using Python to Run ns-3
• Developer Tools
  • Working with Git as a user
  • Working with Git as a maintainer
  • Working with CMake
  • Logging
  • Tests
  • Creating a new ns-3 model
  • Adding a New Module to ns-3
  • Creating Documentation
  • Profiling
  • Working with gitlab-ci-local
• Utilities
  • Print-introspected-doxygen
  • bench-scheduler
• Support
  • Enabling Subsets of ns-3 Modules
  • Enabling/disabling ns-3 Tests and Examples
  • Troubleshooting