Welcome to ns-3’s tutorial!

This is the ns-3 tutorial. Primary documentation for the ns-3 project is available in four forms:

• ns-3 Doxygen: Documentation of the public APIs of the simulator
• Tutorial: (this document)
• Reference Manual:
• 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
  • For ns-2 Users
  • Contributing
  • Tutorial Organization
• Resources
  • The Web
  • Mercurial
  • Waf
  • Development Environment
  • Socket Programming
• Getting Started
  • Downloading ns-3
  • 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
• Tracing
  • Background
  • Overview
  • A Real Example
  • Using Trace Helpers
  • Summary
• Conclusion
  • Futures
  • Closing