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<title>ns-3 Change Log</title>
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<h1>
ns-3: API and model change history</h1>
<!--
This ChangeLog is updated in the reverse order
with the most recent changes coming first. Date format: DD-MM-YYYY
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<p>
ns-3 is an evolving system and there will be API or behavioral changes
from time to time. Users who try to use scripts or models across
versions of ns-3 may encounter problems at compile time, run time, or
may see the simulation output change. </p>
<p>
We have adopted the development policy that we are going to try to ease
the impact of these changes on users by documenting these changes in a
single place (this file), and not by providing a temporary or permanent
backward-compatibility software layer. </p>
<p>
A related file is the RELEASE_NOTES file in the top level directory.
This file complements RELEASE_NOTES by focusing on API and behavioral
changes that users upgrading from one release to the next may encounter.
RELEASE_NOTES attempts to comprehensively list all of the changes
that were made. There is generally some overlap in the information
contained in RELEASE_NOTES and this file. </p>
<p>
The goal is that users who encounter a problem when trying to use older
code with newer code should be able to consult this file to find
guidance as to how to fix the problem. For instance, if a method name
or signature has changed, it should be stated what the new replacement
name is. </p>
<p>
Note that users who upgrade the simulator across versions, or who work
directly out of the development tree, may find that simulation output
changes even when the compilation doesn't break, such as when a
simulator default value is changed. Therefore, it is good practice for
_anyone_ using code across multiple ns-3 releases to consult this file,
as well as the RELEASE_NOTES, to understand what has changed over time.
</p>
<p>
This file is a best-effort approach to solving this issue; we will do
our best but can guarantee that there will be things that fall through
the cracks, unfortunately. If you, as a user, can suggest improvements
to this file based on your experience, please contribute a patch or drop
us a note on ns-developers mailing list.</p>
<hr>
<h1>Changes from ns-3.28 to ns-3-dev</h1>
<h2>New API:</h2>
<ul>
<li> CommandLine can now handle non-option (positional) arguments. </li>
<li> Added CommandLine::Parse (const std::vector<std::string>> args) </li>
<li> NS_LOG_FUNCTION can now log the contents of vectors </li>
<li> A new position allocator has been added to the buildings module, allowing
nodes to be placed outside of buildings defined in the scenario.</li>
<li> The Hash() method has been added to the QueueDiscItem class to compute the
hash of various fields of the packet header (depending on the packet type).</li>
<li> Added a priority queue disc (PrioQueueDisc).</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes to existing API:</h2>
<ul>
<li>TrafficControlHelper::Install now only includes root queue discs in the returned
QueueDiscContainer.</li>
<li>Recovery algorithms are now in a different class, instead of being tied to TcpSocketBase.
Take a look to TcpRecoveryOps for more information.</li>
<li>The Mode, MaxPackets and MaxBytes attributes of the Queue class, that had been deprecated in favor of the MaxSize attribute in ns-3.28, have now been removed and cannot be used anymore. Likewise, the methods to get/set the old attributes have been removed as well. Commands such as:
<pre>
Config::SetDefault ("ns3::QueueBase::MaxPackets", UintegerValue (4));
</pre>
should now be written as:
<pre>
Config::SetDefault ("ns3::QueueBase::MaxSize", QueueSizeValue (QueueSize (QueueSizeUnit::PACKETS, 4)));
</pre>
or with a string value with 'b' (bytes) or 'p' (packets) suffix, such as:
<pre>
Config::SetDefault ("ns3::QueueBase::MaxSize", StringValue ("4p"));
</pre>
</li>
<li>The Limit attribute of the PfifoFastQueueDisc class, that had been deprecated in favor of the MaxSize attribute in ns-3.28, has now been removed and cannot be used anymore. Likewise, the methods to get/set the old Limit attribute have been removed as well. The GetMaxSize/SetMaxSize methods of the base QueueDisc class must be used instead.</li>
<li>The Mode, MaxPackets and MaxBytes attributes of the CoDelQueueDisc class, that had been deprecated in favor of the MaxSize attribute in ns-3.28, have now been removed and cannot be used anymore. Likewise, the methods to get/set the old attributes have been removed as well. The GetMaxSize/SetMaxSize methods of the base QueueDisc class must be used instead.</li>
<li>The PacketLimit attribute of the FqCoDelQueueDisc class, that had been deprecated in favor of the MaxSize attribute in ns-3.28, has now been removed and cannot be used anymore. Likewise, the methods to get/set the old PacketLimit attribute have been removed as well. The GetMaxSize/SetMaxSize methods of the base QueueDisc class must be used instead.</li>
<li>The Mode and QueueLimit attributes of the PieQueueDisc class, that had been deprecated in favor of the MaxSize attribute in ns-3.28, have now been removed and cannot be used anymore. Likewise, the methods to get/set the old attributes have been removed as well. The GetMaxSize/SetMaxSize methods of the base QueueDisc class must be used instead.</li>
<li>The Mode and QueueLimit attributes of the RedQueueDisc class, that had been deprecated in favor of the MaxSize attribute in ns-3.28, have now been removed and cannot be used anymore. Likewise, the methods to get/set the old attributes have been removed as well. The GetMaxSize/SetMaxSize methods of the base QueueDisc class must be used instead.</li>
<li> Several traffic generating applications have additional trace sources that export not only the transmitted or received packet but also the source and destination addresses.</li>
<li>The returned type of <b>GetNDevices</b> methods in <b>Channel</b> and subclasses derived from it were changed from uint32_t to std::size_t. Likewise, the input parameter type of <b>GetDevice</b> in <b>Channel</b> and its subclasses were changed from uint32_t to std::size_t.</li>
<li>Wifi classes <b>DcfManager</b>, <b>DcaTxop</b> and <b>EdcaTxopN</b> were renamed to <b>ChannelAccessManager</b>, <b>Txop</b> and <b>QosTxop</b>, respectively.</li>
<li>QueueDisc::DequeuePeeked has been merged into QueueDisc::Dequeue and hence no longer exists.</li>
<li>The QueueDisc base class now provides a default implementation of the DoPeek private method
based on the QueueDisc::PeekDequeue method, which is now no longer available.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes to build system:</h2>
<ul>
</ul>
<h2>Changed behavior:</h2>
<ul>
<li>FqCoDelQueueDisc now computes the hash of the packet's 5-tuple to determine
the flow the packet belongs to, unless a packet filter has been configured.
The previous behavior is simply obtained by not configuring any packet filter.
Consequently, the FqCoDelIpv{4,6}PacketFilter classes have been removed.</li>
<li> ARP packets now pass through the traffic control layer, as in Linux. </li>
<li> The maximum size UDP packet of the UdpClient application is no longer limited to 1500 bytes.</li>
<li> The default values of the <b>MaxSlrc</b> and <b>FragmentationThreshold</b> attributes in WifiRemoteStationManager were changed from 7 to 4 and from 2346 to 65535, respectively.
</ul>
<hr>
<h1>Changes from ns-3.27 to ns-3.28</h1>
<h2>New API:</h2>
<ul>
<li> When deserializing Packet contents, <b>Header::Deserialize (Buffer::Iterator start)</b> and <b>Trailer::Deserialize (Buffer::Iterator start)</b> can not successfully deserialize variable-length headers and trailers. New variants of these methods that also include an 'end' parameter are now provided.</li>
<li> Ipv[4,6]AddressGenerator can now check if an address is allocated (<b>Ipv[4,6]AddressGenerator::IsAddressAllocated</b>) or a network has some allocated address (<b>Ipv[4,6]AddressGenerator::IsNetworkAllocated</b>).</li>
<li> LTE UEs can now use IPv6 to send and receive traffic.</li>
<li> UAN module now supports an IP stack.</li>
<li> Class <b>TcpSocketBase</b> trace source <i>CongestionWindowInflated</i> shows the values with the in-recovery inflation and the post-recovery deflation.
<li> Added a FIFO queue disc (FifoQueueDisc) and the Token Bucket Filter (TbfQueueDisc).</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes to existing API:</h2>
<ul>
<li> Class <b>LrWpanMac</b> now supports extended addressing mode. Both <b>McpsDataRequest</b> and <b>PdDataIndication</b> methods will now use extended addressing if <b>McpsDataRequestParams::m_srcAddrMode</b> or <b>McpsDataRequestParams::m_dstAddrMode</b> are set to <b>EXT_ADDR</b>.</li>
<li> Class <b>LteUeNetDevice</b> MAC address is now a 64-bit address and can be set during construction.</li>
<li> Class <b>TcpSocketBase</b> trace source <i>CongestionWindow</i> shows the values without the in-recovery inflation and the post-recovery deflation; the old behavior has been moved to the new trace source <i>CongestionWindowInflated</i>.
<li>The Mode, MaxPackets and MaxBytes attributes of the Queue class have been deprecated in favor of the MaxSize attribute. Old attributes can still be used, but using them will be no longer possible in one of the next releases. The methods to get/set the old attributes will be removed as well.</li>
<li>The attributes of the QueueDisc subclasses that separately determine the mode and the limit of the QueueDisc have been deprecated in favor of the single MaxSize attribute.</li>
<li>The GetQueueSize method of some QueueDisc subclasses (e.g., RED) has been removed and replaced by the GetCurrentSize method of the QueueDisc base class.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes to build system:</h2>
<ul>
<li> The C++ standard used during compilation (default std=c++11) can be now be changed via the CXXFLAGS variable.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changed behavior:</h2>
<ul>
<li>All Wi-Fi management frames are now transmitted using the lowest basic rate.</li>
<li>The Wi-Fi spectrum model now takes into account adjacent channels through OFDM transmit spectrum masks.</li>
<li> The CsmaNetDevice::PhyTxBeginTrace will trace all attempts to transmit, even those that result in drops. Previously, eventual channel drops were excluded from this trace.</l>
<li>The TCP congestion window trace now does not report on window inflation during fast recovery phase because it is no longer internally maintained as an inflated value (a separate trace called CongestionWindowInflated can be used to recover the old trace behavior).</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h1>Changes from ns-3.26 to ns-3.27</h1>
<h2>New API:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Added <code>Vector{2,3}D.GetLength ()</code>.</li>
<li>Overloaded <code>operator+</code> and <code>operator-</code> for <code>Vector{2,3}D</code>.</li>
<li>Added iterator version of WifiHelper::Install() to install Wi-Fi devices on range of nodes.</li>
<li>Added a new attribute in TcpSocketBase to track the advertised window.</li>
<li>Included the model of <b>TCP Ledbat</b>.</li>
<li>Included the TCP SACK-based loss recovery algorithm outlined in RFC 6675.</li>
<li>Added <b>TCP SACK</b> and the <b>SACK emulation</b>. Added an Attribute to TcpSocketBase class,
called "Sack", to enable or disable the SACK option usage.</li>
<li>In 'src/wifi', several changes were made to enable partial <b>802.11ax</b> High Effiency (HE) support:
<ul>
<li>A new standard value has been added that enables the new 11ax data rates.</li>
<li>A new 11ax preamble has been added.</li>
<li>A new attribute was added to configure the guard interval duration for High Efficiency (HE) PHY entities. This attribute can be set using the YansWifiPhyHelper.</li>
<li>A new information element has been added: HeCapabilities. This information element is added to the MAC frame header if the node is a HE node. This HeCapabilites information element is used to advertise the HE capabilites of the node to other nodes in the network.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> A new class were added for the RRPAA WiFi rate control mechanism.</li>
<li>Included carrier aggregation feature in LTE module</li>
<ul>
<li>LTE model is extended to support carrier aggregation feature according to 3GPP Release 10, for up to 5 component
carriers. </li>
<li>InstallSingleEnbDevice and InstalSingeUeDevice functions of LteHelper are now constructing LteEnbDevice and LteUeDevice
according to CA architecture. Each device, UE and eNodeB contains an instance of component carrier manager, and may
have several component carrier instances.</li>
<li>SAP interfaces are extended to include CA message exchange funtionality.</li>
<li>RRC connection procedure is extended to allow RRC connection reconfiguration for the configuration of the secondary carriers.</li>
<li>RRC measurement reporting is extended to allow measurement reporting from the secondary carriers.</li>
<li>LTE traces are extended to include component carrier id.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Function <b>PrintRoutingTable</b> has been extended to add an optional Time::Units
parameter to specify the time units used on the report. The new parameter is
optional and if not specified defaults to the previous behavior (Time::S).
</li>
<li><b>TxopTrace</b>: new trace source exported by EdcaTxopN.</li>
<li>A <b>GetDscpCounts</b> method is added to <b>Ipv4FlowClassifier</b> and <b>Ipv6FlowClassifier</b>
which returns a vector of pairs (dscp,count), each of which indicates how many packets with the
associated dscp value have been classified for a given flow.
</li>
<li>MqQueueDisc, a multi-queue aware queue disc modelled after the mq qdisc in Linux, has been introduced.
</li>
<li>Two new methods, <b>QueueDisc::DropBeforeEnqueue()</b> and <b>QueueDisc::DropAfterDequeue()</b> have
been introduced to replace <b>QueueDisc::Drop()</b>. These new methods require the caller to specify the
reason why a packet was dropped. Correspondingly, two new trace sources ("DropBeforeEnqueue" and
"DropAfterDequeue") have been added to the QueueDisc class, providing both the items that were dropped
and the reason why they were dropped.
</li>
<li>Added <b>QueueDisc::GetStats()</b> which returns detailed statistics about the operations of
a queue disc. Statistics can be accessed through the member variables of the returned object and
by calling the <b>GetNDroppedPackets()</b>, <b>GetNDroppedBytes()</b>, <b>GetNMarkedPackets()</b> and <b>GetNMarkedBytes()</b> methods on the returned object. Such methods return the number of packets/bytes
dropped/marked for the specified reason (passed as argument). Consequently:
<ul>
<li>A number of methods of the QueueDisc class have been removed: <b>GetTotalReceivedPackets()</b>,
<b>GetTotalReceivedBytes()</b>, <b>GetTotalDroppedPackets()</b>, <b>GetTotalDroppedBytes()</b>,
<b>GetTotalRequeuedPackets()</b>, <b>GetTotalRequeuedBytes()</b>.</li>
<li>The <b>Stats</b> struct and the <b>GetStats()</b> method of <b>RedQueueDisc</b> and <b>PieQueueDisc</b> have been removed and replaced by those of the QueueDisc base class.</li>
<li>The <b>GetDropOverLimit</b> and <b>GetDropCount</b> methods of <b>CoDelQueueDisc</b> have been removed.
The values they returned can be obtained by calling, respectively,
GetStats ().GetNDroppedPackets (CoDelQueueDisc::OVERLIMIT_DROP) and
GetStats ().GetNDroppedPackets (CoDelQueueDisc::TARGET_EXCEEDED_DROP). The "DropCount" trace of
<b>CoDelQueueDisc</b> has been removed as well. Packets dropped because the target is exceeded can
be obtained through the new "DropAfterDequeue" trace of the QueueDisc class.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> The new <b>QueueDisc::Mark()</b> method has been introduced to allow subclasses to request to mark a packet.
The caller must specify the reason why the packet must be marked. Correspondingly, a new trace source ("Mark")
has been added to the QueueDisc class, providing both the items that were marked and the reason why they
were marked.
</li>
<li>A new trace source, <b>SojournTime</b>, is exported by the QueueDisc base class to provide the
sojourn time of every packet dequeued from a queue disc. This has been made possible by adding a
timestamp to QueueDiscItem objects, which can be set/get through the new <b>GetTimeStamp()</b> and
<b>SetTimeStamp()</b> methods of the QueueDiscItem class. The <b>CoDel</b> queue disc now makes use of such feature of the base class, hence its Sojourn trace source and the CoDelTimestampTag class
have been removed.
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes to existing API:</h2>
<ul>
<li><b>ParetoRandomVariable</b> "Mean" attribute has been deprecated,
the "Scale" Attribute have to be used instead.
Changing the Mean attribute has no more an effect on the distribution.
See the documentation for the relationship between Mean, Scale and Shape.
</li>
<li>The default logging timestamp precision has been changed from 6 digits
to 9 digits, with a fixed format to ensure that 9 digits to the right of
the decimal point are always printed. Previously, default C++ iostream
precision and formatting was used.
</li>
<li>Abstract base class <b>WifiChannel</b> has been removed. As a result, a Channel type instead of a WifiChannel type
is now exported by WifiNetDevice.</li>
<li> The <b>GetPacketSize</b> method of <b>QueueItem</b> has been renamed <b>GetSize</b>
</li>
<li> The <b>DequeueAll</b> method of <b>Queue</b> has been renamed <b>Flush</b>
</li>
<li>The attributes <b>WifiPhy::TxAntennas</b> and <b>WifiPhy::RxAntennas</b>,
and the related accessor methods, were replaced by <b>WifiPhy::MaxSupportedTxSpatialStreams</b>
and <b>WifiPhy::MaxSupportedRxSpatialStreams</b>. A new attribute <b>WifiPhy::Antennas</b>
was added to allow users to define the number of physical antennas on the device.
</li>
<li>Sockets do not receive anymore broadcast packets, unless they are bound to an "Any" address (0.0.0.0)
or to a subnet-directed broadcast packet (e.g., x.y.z.0 for a /24 noterok).
As in Linux, the following rules are now enforced:
<ul>
<li> A socket bound to 0.0.0.0 will receive everything.</li>
<li> A socket bound to x.y.z.0/24 will receive subnet-directed broadcast (x.y.z.255) and unicast packets.</li>
<li> A socket bound to x.y.z.w will only receive unicast packets.</li>
</ul>
<b>Previously, a socket bound to an unicast address received also subnet-directed broadcast packets.
This is not anymore possible</b>.
</li>
<li>You can now Bind as many socket as you want to an address/port, provided that they are bound to different NetDevices.
Moreover, BindToNetDevice does not anymore call Bind. In other terms, Bind and BindToNetDevice can be called
in any order.
However, it is suggested to use BindToNetDevice <i>before</i> Bind in order to avoid conflicts.
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes to build system:</h2>
<ul>
<li> The API scanning process for Python bindings now relies on CastXML, and only 64-bit scans are presently supported (Linux 64-bit systems). Generation of 32-bit scans is documented in the Python chapter of the ns-3 manual.
</li>
<li> Modules can now be located in the 'contrib/' directory in addition to 'src/'
</li>
<li> Behavior for running Python programs was aligned with that of C++ programs; the list of modules built is no longer printed out.
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changed behavior:</h2>
<ul>
<li><b>MultiModelSpectrumChannel</b> does not call StartRx for receivers that
operate on subbands orthogonal to transmitter subbands. Models that depend
on receiving signals with zero power spectral density from orthogonal bands
may change their behavior.
See <a href=https://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2467>bug 2467</a>
for discussion.
</li>
<li><b>Packet Tag objects</b> are no longer constrained to fit within 21
bytes; a maximum size is no longer enforced.
</li>
<li> The default value of the <b>TxGain</b> and <b>RxGain</b> attributes in WifiPhy was changed from 1 dB to 0 dB.
</li>
<li> The reported SNR by WifiPhy::MonitorSnifferRx did not include the RxNoiseFigure, but now does; see <a href=https://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2783>bug 2783</a> for discussion.
</li>
<li><b>Queue</b> has been redesigned as a template class object, where the type parameter
specifies the type of items to be stored in the queue. As a consequence:
<ul>
<li>Being a subclass of Queue, <b>DropTailQueue</b> is a template class as well.
<li>Network devices such as SimpleNetDevice, PointToPointNetDevice and CsmaNetDevice
use a queue of type Queue<Packet> to store the packets to transmit. The SetQueue
method of their helpers, however, can still be invoked as, e.g.,
SetQueue ("ns3::DropTailQueue") instead of, e.g., SetQueue
("ns3::DropTailQueue<Packet>").</li>
<li>The attributes <b>Mode</b>, <b>MaxPackets</b> and <b>MaxBytes</b> are now
defined by the QueueBase class (which Queue is derived from).</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Queue discs that can operate both in packet mode and byte mode (Red, CoDel, Pie) define their own
enum QueueDiscMode instead of using QueueBase::QueueMode.
</li>
<li>The CoDel, PIE and RED queue discs require that the size of the internal queue is the same as
the queue disc limit (previously, it was allowed to be greater than or equal).
</li>
<li> The default value of the <b>EnableBeaconJitter</b> attribute in ApWifiMac was changed from false to true.
</li>
<li> The NormalClose() callback of a TcpSocket object used to fire upon leaving TIME_WAIT state (2*MSL after FINs have been exchanged). It now fires upon entering TIME_WAIT state. Timing of the callback for the other path to state CLOSED (through LAST_ACK) has not been changed.
</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h1>Changes from ns-3.25 to ns-3.26</h1>
<h2>New API:</h2>
<ul>
<li>A <b>SocketPriorityTag</b> is introduced to carry the packet priority. Such a tag
is added to packets by sockets that support this mechanism (UdpSocketImpl,
TcpSocketBase and PacketSocket). The base class Socket has a new SetPriority
method to set the socket priority. When the IPv4 protocol is used, the
priority is set based on the ToS. See the Socket options section of the
Network model for more information.
</li>
<li>A <b>WifiNetDevice::SelectQueue</b> method has been added to determine the user
priority of an MSDU. This method is called by the traffic control layer before
enqueuing a packet in the queue disc, if a queue disc is installed on
the outgoing device, or passing a packet to the device, otherwise. The
user priority is set to the three most significant bits of the DS field
(TOS field in case of IPv4 and Traffic Class field in case of IPv6). The
packet priority carried by the SocketPriorityTag is set to the user priority.
</li>
<li>The <b>PfifoFastQueueDisc</b> classifies packets into bands based on their priority.
See the pfifo_fast queue disc section of the Traffic Control Layer model
for more information.
</li>
<li>A new class <b>SpectrumWifiPhy</b> has been introduced that makes use of the
Spectrum module. Its functionality and API is currently very similar to that
of the YansWifiPhy, especially because it reuses the same InterferenceHelper
and ErrorModel classes (for this release). Some example programs in the
'examples/wireless/' directory, such as 'wifi-spectrum-per-example.cc',
illustrate how the SpectrumWifiPhy class can be substituted for the default
YansWifiPhy PHY model.
</li>
<li>We have added support for generating traces for the
<a href="https://wilseypa.github.io/desMetrics">DES Metrics</a> project.
These can be enabled by adding <tt>--enable-des-metrics</tt> at configuration;
you must also use <tt>CommandLine</tt> in your script. See the API docs
for class <b>DesMetrics</b> for more details.
</li>
<li> The traffic control module now includes the <b>FQ-CoDel</b> and <b>PIE</b> queue disc
models, and behavior corresponding to Linux <b>Byte Queue Limits (BQL)</b>.
</li>
<li> Several new TCP congestion control variants were introduced, including
<b>TCP Vegas, Scalable, Veno, Illinois, Bic, YeAH, and H-TCP</b>
congestion control algorithms.
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes to existing API:</h2>
<ul>
<li><b>SocketAddressTag</b> was a long-standing approach to approximate the POSIX
socket recvfrom behavior (i.e., to know the source address of a packet)
without actually calling RecvFrom. Experience with this revealed that
this option was difficult to use with tunnels (the new tag has to
replace the old one). Moreover, there is no real need
to create a new API when there is a an existing one (i.e., RecvFrom).
As a consequence, SocketAddressTag has been completely removed from ns-3.
Users can use RecvFrom (for UDP), GetPeerName (for TCP), or similar.
</li>
<li><b>InetSockAddress</b> can now store a ToS value, which can be set through its
SetTos method. The Bind and Connect methods of UDP (UdpSocketImpl) and
TCP (TcpSocketBase) sockets set the socket ToS value to the value provided
through the address input parameter (of type InetSockAddress). See the
Socket options section of the Network model for more information.
</li>
<li>The <b>QosTag</b> is removed as it has been superseded by the SocketPriorityTag.</li>
<li>The <b>Ipv4L3Protocol::DefaultTos</b> attribute is removed.</li>
<li>The attributes <b>YansWifiPhy::Frequency, YansWifiPhy::ChannelNumber, and
YansWifiPhy::ChannelWidth</b>, and the related accessor methods, were moved to
base class WifiPhy. YansWifiPhy::GetChannelFrequencyMhz() was deleted.
A new method WifiPhy::DefineChannelNumber () was added to allow users to
define relationships between channel number, standard, frequency, and channel width.
</li>
<li>The class <b>WifiSpectrumValueHelper</b> has been refactored; previously it
was an abstract base class supporting the WifiSpectrumValue5MhzFactory spectrum
model. It now contains various static member methods supporting the creation
of power spectral densities with the granularity of a Wi-Fi OFDM subcarrier
bandwidth. The class <b>WifiSpectrumValue5MhzFactory</b> and its API remain but
it is not subclassed.
</li>
<li>A new Wifi method <b>InterferenceHelper::AddForeignSignal</b> has been introduced to
support use of the SpectrumWifiPhy (so that non-Wi-Fi signals may be handled
as noise power).
</li>
<li>A new Wifi attribute <b>Dcf::TxopLimit</b> has been introduced to add support for 802.11e TXOP.
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes to build system:</h2>
<ul>
<li> A new waf build option, <tt>--check-config</tt>, was added to allow users to print the current configuration summary, as appears at the end of ./waf configure. See bug 2459 for discussion.</li>
<li> The <tt>configure</tt> summary is now sorted, to make it easier to check the status of optional features.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changed behavior:</h2>
This section is for behavioral changes to the models that were not due to a bug fix.
<ul>
<li>The relationship between Wi-Fi channel number, frequency, channel width,
and Wi-Fi standard has been revised (see bug 2412). Previously, ChannelNumber
and Frequency were attributes of class YansWifiPhy, and the frequency was
defined as the start of the band. Now, Frequency has been redefined to be
the center frequency of the channel, and the underlying device relies on
the pair of frequency and channel width to control behavior; the channel
number and Wi-Fi standard are used as attributes to configure frequency
and channel width. The wifi module documentation discusses this change
and the new behavior.
</li>
<li>AODV now honors the TTL in RREQ/RREP and it uses a method
compliant with <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3561.txt">RFC 3561</a>. The node search radius is increased progressively. This could increase
slightly the node search time, but it also decreases the network
congestion.
</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h1>Changes from ns-3.24 to ns-3.25</h1>
<h2>New API:</h2>
<ul>
<li> In 'src/internet/test', a new environment is created to test TCP properties.</li>
<li> The 'src/traffic-control' module has been added, with new API for adding and configuring queue discs and packet filters.</li>
<li> Related to traffic control, a new interface has been added to the
NetDevice to provide a queue interface to access device queue state and
register callbacks used for flow control.</li>
<li> In 'src/wifi', a new rate control (MinstrelHT) has been added for
802.11n/ac modes.</li>
<li> In 'src/wifi', a new helper (WifiMacHelper) is added and is a merged helper from all previously existing MAC helpers (NqosWifiMacHelper, QosWifiMacHelper, HtWifiMacHelper and VhtWifiMacHelper).</li>
<li> It is now possible to use RIPv2 in IPv4 network simulations.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes to existing API:</h2>
<ul>
<li>TCP-related changes:
<ul>
<li>Classes TcpRfc793, TcpTahoe, and TcpReno were removed.</li>
<li>The 'TcpNewReno' log component was effectively replaced by 'TcpCongestionOps'
<li>TCP Hybla and HighSpeed have been added.</li>
<li>Added the concept of Congestion State Machine inside TcpSocketBase.</li>
<li>Merged Fast Recovery and Fast Retransmit inside TcpSocketBase.</li>
<li>Some member variables have been moved from TcpSocketBase inside TcpSocketState. Attributes are not touched.</li>
<li>Congestion control splitted from TcpSocketBase as subclass of TcpCongestionOps.</li>
<li>Added Rx and Tx callbacks on TcpSocketBase.</li>
<li>Added BytesInFlight trace source on TcpSocketBase. The trace is updated when the implementation requests the value.</li>
<li>Added attributes about the number of connection and data retransmission attempts.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> ns-3 is now capable of serializing SLL (a.k.a. cooked) headers.
This is used in DCE to allow the generation of pcap directly readable by wireshark.
</li>
<li> In the WifiHelper class in the wifi module, Default has been declared deprecated. This is now immediately handled by the constructor of the class.</li>
<li> The API for configuring 802.11n/ac aggregation has been modified to be more user friendly. As any MAC layer attributes, aggregation parameters can now also be configured through WifiMacHelper::SetType. </li>
<li> The class Queue and subclasses derived from it have been changed in two ways:
<ul>
<li>Queues no longer enqueue simple Packets but instead enqueue QueueItem objects, which include Packet but possibly other information such as headers.</li>
<li>The attributes governing the mode of operation (packets or bytes) and the maximum size have been moved to base class Queue.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> Users of advanced queues (RED, CoDel) who have been using them directly in the NetDevice will need to adjust to the following changes:
<ul>
<li> RED and CoDel are no longer specializations of the Queue classe, but are now specializations of the new QueueDisc class. This means that RED and CoDel can now be installed in the context of the new Traffic Control layer instead of as queues in (some) NetDevices. The reason for such a change is to make the ns-3 stack much more similar to that of real operating systems (Linux has been taken as a reference). Queuing disciplines such as RED and CoDel can now be tested with all the NetDevices, including WifiNetDevices. </li>
<li> NetDevices still use queues to buffer packets. The only subclass of Queue currently available for this purpose is DropTailQueue. If one wants to approximate the old behavior, one needs to set the DropTailQueue MaxPackets attribute to very low values, e.g., 1.</li>
<li> The Traffic Control layer features a mechanism by which packets dropped by the NetDevice are requeued in the queue disc (more precisely: if NetDevice::Send returns false, the packet is requeued), so that they are retransmitted later. This means that the MAC drop traces may include packets that have not been actually lost, because they have been dropped by the device, requeued by the traffic control layer and successfully retransmitted. To get the correct number of packets that have been actually lost, one has to subtract the number of packets requeued from the number of packets dropped as reported by the MAC drop trace. </li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes to build system:</h2>
<ul>
<li> Waf was upgraded to 1.8.19</li>
<li> A new waf build option, --check-profile, was added to allow users to check the currently active build profile. It is discussed in bug 2202 in the tracker.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changed behavior:</h2>
This section is for behavioral changes to the models that were not due to a bug fix.
<ul>
<li>TCP behavioral changes:
<ul>
<li>TCP closes connection after a number of failed segment retries,
rather than trying indefinitely. The maximum number of retries, for both SYN
attempts and data attempts, is controlled by attributes.</li>
<li>Congestion algorithms not compliant with Fast Retransmit
and Fast Recovery (TCP 793, Reno, Tahoe) have been removed.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> 802.11n/ac MPDU aggregation is now enabled by default for both AC_BE and AC_VI.</li>
<li> The introduction of the traffic control layer leads to some additional buffering by default in the stack; when a device queue fills up, additional packets become enqueued at the traffic control layer.</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h1>Changes from ns-3.23 to ns-3.24</h1>
<h2>New API:</h2>
<ul>
<li>In 'src/wifi', several changes were made to enable partial 802.11ac support:
<ul>
<li>A new helper (VhtWifiMacHelper) was added to set up a Very high throughput (VHT) MAC entity.</li>
<li>A new standard value has been added that enables the new 11ac data rates.</li>
<li>A new 11ac preamble has been added.</li>
<li>A new information element has been added: VhtCapabilities. This information element is added to the MAC frame header if the node is a VHT node. This VhtCapabilites information element is used to advertise the VHT capabilites of the node to other nodes in the network.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>The ArpCache API was extended to allow the manual removal of ArpCache entries and the addition of permanent (static) entries for IPv4.
</li>
<li> The SimpleChannel in the 'network' module now allows per-NetDevice blacklists, in order to do hidden terminal testcases.
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes to existing API:</h2>
<ul>
<li> The signatures on several TcpHeader methods were changed to take const arguments.</li>
<li> class TcpL4Protocol replaces Send() methods with SendPacket(), and adds new methods to AddSocket() and RemoveSocket() from a node. Also, a new PacketReceived() method was introduced to get the TCP header of an incoming packet and check its checksum.</li>
<li> The CongestionWindow and SlowStartThreshold trace sources have been moved from the TCP subclasses such as NewReno, Reno, Tahoe, and Westwood to the TcpSocketBase class.</li>
<li> The WifiMode object has been refactored:
<ul>
<li>11n data rates are now renamed according to their MCS value. E.g. OfdmRate65MbpsBW20MHz has been renamed into HtMcs7. 11ac data rates have been defined according to this new renaming.</li>
<li>HtWifiMacHelper and VhtWifiMacHelper provide a helper to convert a MCS value into a data rate value.</li>
<li>The channel width is no longer tied to the wifimode. It is now included in the TXVECTOR.</li>
<li>The physical bitrate is no longer tied to the wifimode. It is computed based on the selected wifimode and on the TXVECTOR parameters (channel width, guard interval and number of spatial streams).</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes to build system:</h2>
<ul>
<li> Waf was upgraded to 1.8.12</li>
<li> Waf scripts and test.py test runner program were made compatible with Python 3</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changed behavior:</h2>
This section is for behavioral changes to the models that were not due to a bug fix.
<ul>
</ul>
<hr>
<h1>Changes from ns-3.22 to ns-3.23</h1>
<h2>New API:</h2>
<ul>
<li> The mobility module includes a GeographicPositions class used to
convert geographic to cartesian coordinates, and to generate randomly
distributed geographic coordinates.
</li>
<li> The spectrum module includes new TvSpectrumTransmitter classes and helpers to create television transmitter(s) that transmit PSD spectrums customized by attributes such as modulation type, power, antenna type, channel frequency, etc.
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes to existing API:</h2>
<ul>
<li> In LteSpectrumPhy, LtePhyTxEndCallback and the corresponding methods have been removed, since they were unused.
</li>
<li> In the DataRate class in the network module, CalculateTxTime has been declared deprecated. CalculateBytesTxTime and CalculateBitsTxTime are to be used instead. The return value is a Time, instead of a double.
</li>
<li> In the Wi-Fi InterferenceHelper, the interference event now takes the WifiTxVector as an input parameter, instead of the WifiMode. A similar change was made to the WifiPhy::RxOkCallback signature.
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes to build system:</h2>
<ul>
<li> None </li>
</ul>
<h2>Changed behavior:</h2>
This section is for behavioral changes to the models that were not due to a bug fix.
<ul>
<li> In Wi-Fi, HT stations (802.11n) now support two-level aggregation. The InterferenceHelper now distinguishes between the PLCP and regular payload reception, for higher fidelity modeling. ACKs are now sent using legacy rates and preambles. Acces points now establish BSSBasicRateSet for control frame transmissions. PLCP header and PLCP payload reception have been decoupled to improve PHY layer modeling accuracy. RTS/CTS with A-MPDU is now fully supported.
</li>
<li> The mesh module was made more compliant to the IEEE 802.11s-2012 standard and packet traces are now parseable by Wireshark.
</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h1>Changes from ns-3.21 to ns-3.22</h1>
<h2>New API:</h2>
<ul>
<li> New classes were added for the PARF and APARF WiFi power and rate control mechanisms.
</li>
<li> Support for WiFi 802.11n MPDU aggregation has been added.
</li>
<li> Additional support for modeling of vehicular WiFi networks has been added, including the channel-access coordination feature of IEEE 1609.4. In addition, a Basic Safety Message (BSM) packet generator and related statistics-gathering classes have been added to the wave module.
</li>
<li> A complete LTE release bearer procedure is now implemented which can be invoked by calling the new helper method LteHelper::DeActivateDedicatedEpsBearer ().
</li>
<li> It is now possible to print the Neighbor Cache (ARP and NDISC) by using
the RoutingProtocolHelper
</li>
<li> A TimeProbe class has been added to the data collection framework in
the stats module, enabling TracedValues emitting values of type
ns3::Time to be handled by the framework.
</li>
<li> A new attribute 'ClockGranularity' was added to the TcpSocketBase class,
to control modeling of RTO calculation.
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes to existing API:</h2>
<ul>
<li> Several deprecated classes and class methods were removed, including EmuNetDevice, RandomVariable and derived classes, Packet::PeekData(), Ipv6AddressHelper::NewNetwork(Ipv6Address, Ipv6Prefix), Ipv6InterfaceContainer::SetRouter(), Ipv4Route::GetOutputTtl(), TestCase::AddTestCase(TestCase*), and TestCase::GetErrorStatus().
</li>
<li> Print methods involving routing tables and neighbor caches, in classes Ipv4RoutingHelper and Ipv6RoutingHelper, were converted to static methods.
</li>
<li>PointerValue attribute types in class UanChannel (NoiseModel), UanPhyGen (PerModel and SinrModel), UanPhyDual (PerModelPhy1, PerModelPhy2, SinrModelPhy1, and SinrModelPhy2), and SimpleNetDevice (TxQueue), were changed from PointerValue type to StringValue type, making them configurable via the Config subsystem.
</li>
<li> WifiPhy::CalculateTxDuration() and WifiPhy::GetPayloadDurationMicroSeconds () now take an additional frequency parameter.
</li>
<li> The attribute 'Recievers' in class YansWifiPhy was misspelled, so
this has been corrected to 'Receivers'.
</li>
<li> We have now documented the callback function signatures
for all TracedSources, using an extra (fourth) argument to
TypeId::AddTraceSource to pass the fully-qualified name
of the signature typedef. To ensure that future TraceSources
are similarly documented, the three argument version of
AddTraceSource has been deprecated.
</li>
<li> The "MinRTO" attribute of the RttEstimator class was moved to the TcpSocketBase class. The "Gain" attribute of the RttMeanDeviation class was replaced
by new "Alpha" and "Beta" attributes.
</li>
<li> Attributes of the TcpTxBuffer and TcpRxBuffer class are now accessible through the TcpSocketBase class.
</li>
<li> The LrWpanHelper class has a new constructor allowing users to configure a MultiModelSpectrumChannel as an option, and also provides Set/Get API to allow users to access the underlying channel object.
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes to build system:</h2>
<ul>
<li> waf was upgraded to version 1.7.16
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changed behavior:</h2>
This section is for behavioral changes to the models that were not due to a bug fix.
<ul>
<li> The default value of the `Speed` attribute of ConstantSpeedPropagationDelayModel was changed from 300,000,000 m/s to 299,792,458 m/s (speed of light in a vacuum), causing propagation delays using this model to vary slightly.
</li>
<li> The LrWpanHelper object was previously instantiating only a LogDistancePropagationLossModel on a SingleModelSpectrumChannel, but no PropagationDelayModel. The constructor now adds by default a ConstantSpeedPropagationDelayModel.
</li>
<li> The Nix-vector routing implementation now uses a lazy flush mechanism,
which dramatically speeds up the creation of large topologies.
</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h1>Changes from ns-3.20 to ns-3.21</h1>
<h2>New API:</h2>
<ul>
<li> New "const double& SpectrumValue:: operator[] (size_t index) const".
</li>
<li> A new TraceSource has been added to TCP sockets: SlowStartThreshold.
</li>
<li> New method CommmandLine::AddValue (name, attibutePath) to provide a
shorthand argument "name" for the Attribute "path". This also has
the effect of including the help string for the Attribute in the
Usage message.
</li>
<li> The GSoC 2014 project in the LTE module has brought some additional APIs:
<ul>
<li>a new abstract class LteFfrAlgorithm, which every future
implementation of frequency reuse algorithm should inherit from</li>
<li>a new SAPs: one between MAC Scheduler and FrAlgorithm, one between
RRC and FrAlgorithm</li>
<li>new attribute to enable Uplink Power Control in LteUePhy</li>
<li>new LteUePowerControl class, an implementation of Uplink Power Control, which is
configurable by attributes. ReferenceSignalPower is sent by eNB in SIB2.
Uplink Power Control in Closed Loop Accumulative Mode is enabled by default</li>
<li>seven different Frequency Reuse Algorithms (each has its own attributes): </li>
<ul>
<li>LteFrNoOpAlgorithm</li>
<li>LteFrHardAlgorithm</li>
<li>LteFrStrictAlgorithm</li>
<li>LteFrSoftAlgorithm</li>
<li>LteFfrSoftAlgorithm</li>
<li>LteFfrEnhancedAlgorithm</li>
<li>LteFfrDistributedAlgorithm</li>
</ul>
<li>attribute in LteFfrAlgorithm to set FrCellTypeId which is used in automatic
Frequency Reuse algorithm configuration</li>
<li>LteHelper has been updated with new methods related to frequency reuse algorithm:
SetFfrAlgorithmType and SetFfrAlgorithmAttribute</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> A new SimpleNetDeviceHelper can now be used to install SimpleNetDevices.
</li>
<li> New PacketSocketServer and PacketSocketClient apps, meant to be used in tests.
</li>
<li> Tcp Timestamps and Window Scale options have been added and are enabled by default (controllable by attribute).
</li>
<li> A new CoDel queue model has been added to the 'internet' module.
</li>
<li> New test macros NS_TEST_ASSERT_MSG_GT_OR_EQ() and NS_TEST_EXPECT_MSG_GT_OR_EQ() have been added.
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes to existing API:</h2>
<ul>
<li> "Icmpv6L4Protocol::ForgeEchoRequest" is now returning a packet with the proper IPv6 header.
</li>
<li> The TCP socket Attribute "SlowStartThreshold" has been renamed "InitialSlowStartThreshold" to
clarify that the effect is only on the initial value.
</li>
<li> all schedulers were updated to interact with FR entity via FFR-SAP. Only PF, PSS, CQA,
FD-TBFQ, TD-TBFQ schedulers supports Frequency Reuse functionality. In the beginning
of scheduling process, schedulers ask FR entity for avaiable RBGs and then ask if UE
can be scheduled on RB</li>
<li> eNB RRC interacts with FFR entity via RRC-FFR SAP</li>
<li> new DL-CQI generation approach was implemented. Now DL-CQI is computed from control channel as signal
and data channel (if received) as interference. New attribute in LteHelper was added to specify
DL-CQI generation approach. New approach is default one in LteHelper </li>
<li> RadioEnvironmentMap can be generated for Data or Control channel and for specified RbId;
Data or Control channel and RbId can be configured by new attributes in RadioEnvironmentMapHelper </li>
<li> lte-sinr-chunk-processor refactored to lte-chunk-processor. Removed all lte-xxx-chunk-processor
implementations</li>
<li> BindToNetDevice affects also sockets using IPv6.</li>
<li> BindToNetDevice now calls implicitly Bind (). To bind a socket to a NetDevice and to a specific address,
the correct sequence is Bind (address) - BindToNetDevice (device). The opposite will raise an error.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes to build system:</h2>
<ul>
<li> None for this release. </li>
</ul>
<h2>Changed behavior:</h2>
<ul>
<li> Behavior will be changed due to the list of bugs fixed (listed in RELEASE_NOTES); users are requested to review that list as well.
</ul>
<hr>
<h1>Changes from ns-3.19 to ns-3.20</h1>
<h2>New API:</h2>
<ul>
<li> Models have been added for low-rate, wireless personal area networks
(LR-WPAN) as specified by IEEE standard 802.15.4 (2006). The current
emphasis is on the unslotted mode of 802.15.4 operation for use in Zigbee,
and the scope is limited to enabling a single mode (CSMA/CA) with basic
data transfer capabilities. Association with PAN coordinators is not yet
supported, nor the use of extended addressing. Interference is modeled as
AWGN but this is currently not thoroughly tested. The NetDevice Tx queue
is not limited, i.e., packets are never dropped due to queue becoming full.
They may be dropped due to excessive transmission retries or channel access
failure. </li>
<li> A new IPv6 routing protocol has been added: RIPng. This protocol is
an Interior Gateway Protocol and it is available in the Internet module. </li>
<li> A new LTE MAC downlink scheduling algorithm named Channel and QoS
Aware (CQA) Scheduler is provided by the new "ns3::CqaFfMacScheduler" object.
</li>
<li> Units may be attached to Time objects, to facilitate specific output
formats (see Time::As()) </li>
<li> FlowMonitor "SerializeToXml" functions are now directly available
from the helper. </li>
<li> Access to OLSR's HNA table has been enabled </li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes to existing API:</h2>
<ul>
<li> The SixLowPan model can now use uncompressed IPv6 headers. An option to
define the minimum compressed packet size has been added. </li>
<li> MinDistance wsa replaced by MinLoss in FriisPropagationLossModel, to
better handle conditions outside of the assumed far field region. </li>
<li> In the DSR model, the attribute DsrOptionRerrHeader::ErrorType" has
been removed. </li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes to build system:</h2>
<ul>
<li> Python 3.3 is now supported for Python bindings for ns-3. Python 3.3
support for API scanning is not supported. Python 3.2 is not supported.</li>
<li> Enable selection of high precision int64x64_t implementation
at configure time, for debugging purposes.</li>
<li> Optimized builds are now enabling signed overflow optimization
(-fstrict-overflow) and for gcc 4.8.2 and greater, also warning for cases
where an optimizization may occur due to compiler assumption that
overflow will not occur. </li>
</ul>
<h2>Changed behavior:</h2>
<ul>
<li> The Internet FlowMonitor can now track IPv6 packets. </li>
<li> Ipv6Extension::m_dropTrace has been removed. Ipv6L3Protocol::m_dropTrace
is now fired when appropriate. </li>
<li> IPv4 identification field value is now dependent on the protocol
field. </li>
<li> Point-to-point trace sources now contain PPP headers </li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h1>Changes from ns-3.18.1 to ns-3.19</h1>
<h2>New API:</h2>
<ul>
<li> A new wifi extension for vehicular simulation support is available in the
src/wave directory. The current code represents an interim capability to
realize an IEEE 802.11p-compliant device, but without the WAVE extensions
(which are planned for a later patch). The WaveNetDevice modelled herein
enforces that a WAVE-compliant physical layer (at 5.9 GHz) is selected, and
does not require any association between devices (similar to an adhoc WiFi
MAC), but is otherwise similar (at this time) to a WifiNetDevice. WAVE
capabililties of switching between control and service channels, or using
multiple radios, are not yet modelled.
</li>
<li>New SixLowPanNetDevice class providing a shim between
IPv6 and real NetDevices. The new module implements 6LoWPAN:
"Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IEEE 802.15.4 Networks" (see
<a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4944.txt">RFC 4944</a> and
<a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc6262.txt">RFC 6262</a>),
resulting in a heavy header compression for IPv6 packets.
The module is intended to be used on 802.15.4 NetDevices, but
it can be used over other NetDevices. See the manual for
further discussion.
</li>
<li> LteHelper has been updated with some new APIs:
<ul>
<li>new overloaded Attach methods to enable UE to automatically determine
the eNodeB to attach to (using initial cell selection);</li>
<li>new methods related to handover algorithm: SetHandoverAlgorithmType
and SetHandoverAlgorithmAttribute;</li>
<li>a new attribute AnrEnabled to activate/deactivate Automatic Neighbour
Relation (ANR) function; and</li>
<li>a new method SetUeDeviceAttribute for configuring LteUeNetDevice.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> The GSoC 2013 project in the LTE module has brought some additional APIs:
<ul>
<li>a new abstract class LteHandoverAlgorithm, which every future
implementation of automatic handover trigger should inherit from;</li>
<li>new classes LteHandoverAlgorithm and LteAnr as sub-modules of
LteEnbNetDevice class; both interfacing with the LteEnbRrc sub-module
through Handover Management SAP and ANR SAP;</li>
<li>new attributes in LteEnbNetDevice and LteUeNetDevice classes related
to Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) functionality in initial cell
selection;</li>
<li>new attributes in LteEnbRrc for configuring UE measurements' filtering
coefficient (i.e., quantity configuration);</li>
<li>a new public method AddUeMeasReportConfig in LteEnbRrc for setting up
custom UE measurements' reporting configuration; measurement reports
can then be captured from the RecvMeasurementReport trace source;
and</li>
<li>new trace sources in LteUeRrc to capture more events, such as System
Information messages (MIB, SIB1, SIB2), initial cell selection, random
access, and handover.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>A new parallel scheduling algorithm based on null messages, a common
parallel DES scheduling algorithm, has been added. The null message
scheduler has better scaling properties when running on some scenarios
with large numbers of nodes since it does not require a global
communication.
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes to existing API:</h2>
<ul>
<li> It is now possible to use Ipv6PacketInfoTag from UDP applications in the
same way as with Ipv4PacketInfoTag. See Doxygen for current limitations in
using Ipv[4,6]PacketInfoTag to set IP properties.</li>
<li>A change is introduced for the usage of the EpcHelper
class. Previously, the EpcHelper class included both the API
definition and its (only) implementation; as such, users would
instantiate and use the EpcHelper class directly in their
simulation programs. From now on,
EpcHelper is just the base class defining the API, and the
implementation has been moved to derived classes; as such,
users are now expected to use one of the derived classes in
their simulation program. The implementation previously
provided by the EpcHelper class has been moved to the new
derived class PointToPointEpcHelper.</li>
<li> The automatic handover trigger and ANR functions in LTE module have been
moved from LteEnbRrc class to separate classes. As a result, the related
attributes, e.g., ServingCellHandoverThreshold, NeighbourCellHandoverOffset,
EventA2Threshold, and EventA4Threshold have been removed from LteEnbRrc
class. The equivalent attributes are now in A2A4RsrqHandoverAlgorithm and
LteAnr classes.</li>
<li> Master Information Block (MIB) and System Information Block Type 1 (SIB1)
are now transmitted as LTE control messages, so they are no longer part of
RRC protocol.</li>
<li> UE RRC state model in LTE module has been considerably modified and is
not backward compatible with the previous state model.</li>
<li> Additional time units (Year, Day, Hour, Minute) were added to the time
value class that represents simulation time; the largest unit prior to
this addition was Second.
</li>
<li> SimpleNetDevice and SimpleChannel are not so simple anymore. SimpleNetDevice can be now a
Broadcast or PointToPoint NetDevice, it can have a limited bandwidth and it uses an output
queue.
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes to build system:</h2>
<h2>Changed behavior:</h2>
<ul>
<li> For the TapBridge device, in UseLocal mode there is a MAC learning function. TapBridge has been waiting for the first packet received from tap interface to set the address of the bridged device to the source address of the first packet. This has caused problems with WiFi. The new behavior is that after connection to the tap interface, ns-3 learns the MAC address of that interface with a system call and immediately sets the address of the bridged device to the learned one. See <a href="https://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1777">bug 1777</a> for more details.</li>
<li> TapBridge device now correctly implements IsLinkUp() method.</li>
<li> IPv6 addresses and routing tables are printed like in Linux "route -A inet6" command.</li>
<li> A change in Ipv[4,6]Interface enforces the correct behaviour of IP
when a device do not support the minimum MTU requirements.
This is set to 68 and 1280 octects respectively. IP simulations that
may have run over devices with smaller MTUs than 68 or 1280, respectively,
will no longer be able to use such devices.</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h1>Changes from ns-3.18 to ns-3.18.1</h1>
<h2>New API:</h2>
<ul>
<li> It is now possible to randomize the time of the first beacon from an
access point. Use an attribute "EnableBeaconJitter" to enable/disable
this feature.
</li>
<li> A new FixedRoomPositionAllocator helper class is available; it
allows one to generate a random position uniformly distributed in the
volume of a chosen room inside a chosen building.
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes to existing API:</h2>
<ul>
<li> Logging wildcards: allow "***" as synonym for "*=**" to turn on all logging.
</li>
<li> The log component list ("NS_LOG=print-list") is now printed alphabetically.
</li>
<li> Some deprecated IEEE 802.11p code has been removed from the wifi module
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes to build system:</h2>
<ul>
<li> The Python API scanning system (./waf --apiscan) has been fixed (bug 1622)
</li>
<li> Waf has been upgraded from 1.7.11 to 1.7.13
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changed behavior:</h2>
<ul>
<li> Wifi simulations have additional jitter on AP beaconing (see above) and some bug fixes have been applied to wifi module (see RELEASE_NOTES)
</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h1>Changes from ns-3.17 to ns-3.18</h1>
<h2>New API:</h2>
<ul>
<li>New features have been added to the LTE module:
<ul>
<li>PHY support for UE measurements (RSRP and RSRQ)</li>
<li>RRC support for UE measurements (configuration, execution, reporting)</li>
<li>Automatic Handover trigger based on RRC UE measurement reports</li>
</ul>
<li>Data collection components have been added in the 'src/stats' module.
Data collection includes a Probe class that attaches to ns-3 trace
sources to filter their output, and two Aggregator classes for
marshaling probed data into text files or gnuplot plots. The ns-3
tutorial has been extended to illustrate basic functionality. </li>
<li>In 'src/wifi', several changes were made to enable partial 802.11n support:
<ul>
<li>A new helper (HtWifiMacHelper) was added to set up a High Throughput (HT) MAC entity</li>
<li>New attributes were added to help the user setup a High Throughput (HT) PHY entity. These attributes can be set using the YansWifiPhyHelper</li>
<li>A new standard value has been added that enables the new 11n data rates.</li>
<li>New 11n preambles has been added (Mixed format and greenfield). To be able to change Tx duration according to the preamble used, a new class TxVector has been added to carry the transmission parameters (mode, preamble, stbc,..). Several functions have been updated to allow the passage of TxVector instead of WifiMode in MacLow, WifiRemoteStationManager, WifiPhy, YansWifiPhy,.. </li>
<li>A new information element has been added: HTCapabilities. This information element is added to the MAC frame header if the node is an HT node. This HTCapabilites information element is used to advertise the HT capabilites of the node to other nodes in the network</li>
</ul>
<li>InternetStackHelper has two new functions:<tt>SetIpv4ArpJitter (bool enable)</tt>
and <tt>SetIpv6NsRsJitter (bool enable)</tt> to enable/disable
the random jitter on the tranmission of IPv4 ARP Request and IPv6 NS/RS. </li>
<li>Bounds on valid time inputs for time attributes can now be enabled.
See <tt>attribute-test-suite.cc</tt> for an example.</li>
<li>New generic hash function interface provided in the simulation core.
Two hash functions are provided: murmur3 (default), and the venerable
FNV1a. See the Hash Functions section in the ns-3 manual.</li>
<li>New Mac16Address has been added. It can be used with IPv6 to make
an Autoconfigured address.</li>
<li>Mac64Address support has been extended. It can now be used with
IPv6 to make an Autoconfigured address.</li>
<li>IPv6 can now detect and use Path-MTU. See
<tt>examples/ipv6/fragmentation-ipv6-two-MTU.cc</tt> for an example.</li>
<li>Radvd application has a new Helper. See the updated
<tt>examples/ipv6/radvd.cc</tt> for an example.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes to existing API:</h2>
<ul>
<li> The Ipv6InterfaceContainer functions to set a node in forwarding state (i.e., a router)
and to install a default router in a group of nodes have been extensively changed.
The old function <tt>void Ipv6InterfaceContainer::SetRouter (uint32_t i, bool router)</tt>
is now DEPRECATED.
</li>
<li> The documentation's IPv6 addresses (2001:db8::/32, RFC 3849) are now
dropped by routers.
</li>
<li> The 'src/tools' module has been removed, and most files migrated to
'src/stats'. For users of these programs (the statistics-processing
in average.h, or the gnuplot support), the main change is likely to be
replacing the inclusion of "tools-module.h" with "stats-module.h".
Users of the event garbage collector, previously in tools, will now
include it from the core module.
</li>
<li> The Ipv6 UnicastForwardCallback and MulticastForwardCallback
have a new parameter, the NetDevice the packet has been received from.
Existing Ipv6RoutingProtocols should update their RouteInput function
accordingly, e.g., from <tt>ucb (rtentry, p, header);</tt> to <tt>ucb (idev, rtentry, p, header);</tt>
</li>
<li> The previous buildings module relied on a specific MobilityModel called
BuildingsMobilityModel, which supported buildings but only allowed
static positions. This mobility model has been removed. Now, the