ns-3 Tutorial

This is the ns-3 Tutorial. Primary documentation for the ns-3 project is available in five forms:

• ns-3 Doxygen: Documentation of the public APIs of the simulator
• Tutorial (this document), Manual, and Model Library for the latest release and development tree
• ns-3 wiki

This document is written in reStructuredText for Sphinx and is maintained in the doc/tutorial directory of ns-3’s source code.

• Introduction
  • About ns-3
  • For ns-2 Users
  • Contributing
  • Tutorial Organization
• Resources
  • The Web
  • Git
  • Waf
  • Development Environment
  • Socket Programming
• Getting Started
  • Overview
  • Prerequisites
  • Downloading ns-3 using Git
  • Building ns-3
  • Testing ns-3
  • Running a Script
• Conceptual Overview
  • Key Abstractions
  • A First ns-3 Script
  • Ns-3 Source Code
• Tweaking
  • Using the Logging Module
  • Using Command Line Arguments
  • Using the Tracing System
• Building Topologies
  • Building a Bus Network Topology
  • Models, Attributes and Reality
  • Building a Wireless Network Topology
  • Queues in ns-3
• Tracing
  • Background
  • Overview
  • Real Example
  • Trace Helpers
  • Summary
• Data Collection
  • Motivation
  • Example Code
  • GnuplotHelper
  • Supported Trace Types
  • FileHelper
  • Summary
• Conclusion
  • Futures
  • Closing