I'd like to officially announce a new project, funded by NSF, to develop a next major version of ns. We are calling it the ns-3 project, and the PIs also include Sally Floyd, George Riley, and Sumit Roy. We also have a collaboration with the Planete group at INRIA Sophia Antipolis, where Mathieu Lacage has been the main developer.
Broadly, the overall goals of ns-3 are to redesign the simulator in the following areas: - software architecture - integration of existing networking software - updated models - educational use and to perform software maintenance. More details can be found at the following page: http://nsnam.isi.edu/nsnam/index.php/Ns-3 The project funding will allow us to staff full-time programmers and to fund student work on ns. We will devote some resources to continued maintenance of ns-2 while we work on developing ns-3. We intend for the NSF funding to be the seed for a broader open source simulation project for the research and educational community. We invite other research groups and individuals to participate in ns-3 development, review, discussion, and code contribution. We plan to use the ns-developers mailing list for subsequent discussions, so if you're interested, please subscribe there. Tom
