 6LoWPAN | Performs 6LoWPAN compression of IPv6 packets as specified by RFC 4944 and RFC 6282 |
| AODV Routing | This section documents the API of the ns-3 AODV module |
 Applications | This section documents the API of the ns-3 applications module |
 BulkSendApplication | This traffic generator simply sends data as fast as possible up to MaxBytes or until the application is stopped (if MaxBytes is zero) |
| OnOffApplication | This traffic generator follows an On/Off pattern: after Application::StartApplication is called, "On" and "Off" states alternate |
| PacketSink | This application was written to complement OnOffApplication, but it is more general so a PacketSink name was selected |
| UdpClientServer | |
 UdpEcho | |
| BRITE Topology Generator | Create topologies with BRITE |
| Bluetooth Low Energy | This module contains stack of Bluetooth Low Energy Protocol |
| Bridge Network Device | Virtual net device that bridges multiple LAN segments |
| CSMA Layout Helpers | |
| CSMA Network Device | This section documents the API of the ns-3 csma module |
| Click Routing | This section documents the API of the ns-3 click module |
| Configuration Store/Load | Store and load simulation attribute configuration |
| Constants | Constants you can change |
| Core | The "core" module contains: |
| Attributes | The ns-3 attribute system is the mechanism used in ns-3 to organize, document, and modify the values used by the various component models |
| Address Attribute | Attribute implementation for Address |
| Attribute Helper | All these macros can be used to generate automatically the code for subclasses of AttributeValue, AttributeAccessor, and, AttributeChecker, which can be used to give attribute powers to a normal class |
| Attribute Implementation | These are the internal implementation functions for the Attribute system |
| Boolean Attribute | Attribute implementation for Boolean |
| Box Attribute | Attribute implementation for Box |
| Callback Attribute | Attribute implementation for Callback |
| DataRate Attribute | Attribute implementation for DataRate |
| Double Attribute | Attribute implementation for Double |
| EmptyAttribute Attribute | Attribute implementation for EmptyAttribute |
| Enum Attribute | Attribute implementation for Enum |
| HtCapabilities Attribute | Attribute implementation for HtCapabilities |
| IeMeshId Attribute | Attribute implementation for IeMeshId |
| Integer Attribute | Attribute implementation for Integer |
| Ipv4Address Attribute | Attribute implementation for Ipv4Address |
| Ipv4Mask Attribute | Attribute implementation for Ipv4Mask |
| Ipv6Address Attribute | Attribute implementation for Ipv6Address |
| Ipv6Prefix Attribute | Attribute implementation for Ipv6Prefix |
| Mac16Address Attribute | Attribute implementation for Mac16Address |
| Mac48Address Attribute | Attribute implementation for Mac48Address |
| Mac64Address Attribute | Attribute implementation for Mac64Address |
| ObjectFactory Attribute | Attribute implementation for ObjectFactory |
| ObjectMap Attribute | Attribute implementation for ObjectMap |
| ObjectPtrContainer Attribute | Attribute implementation for ObjectPtrContainer |
| ObjectVector Attribute | Attribute implementation for ObjectVector |
| OrganizationIdentifier Attribute | Attribute implementation for OrganizationIdentifier |
| Pointer Attribute | Attribute implementation for Pointer |
| RandomVariable Attribute | Attribute implementation for RandomVariable |
| Rectangle Attribute | Attribute implementation for Rectangle |
| Ssid Attribute | Attribute implementation for Ssid |
| String Attribute | Attribute implementation for String |
| Time Attribute | Attribute implementation for Time |
| TypeId Attribute | Attribute implementation for TypeId |
| UanModesList Attribute | Attribute implementation for UanModesList |
| Uinteger Attribute | Attribute implementation for Uinteger |
| ValueClassTest Attribute | Attribute implementation for ValueClassTest |
| Vector2D Attribute | Attribute implementation for Vector2D |
| Vector3D Attribute | Attribute implementation for Vector3D |
| Waypoint Attribute | Attribute implementation for Waypoint |
| WifiMode Attribute | Attribute implementation for WifiMode |
| Callbacks | Wrap functions, objects, and arguments into self contained callbacks |
| Callback Implementation | Callback implementation classes |
| MakeBoundCallback from functions bound with up to three arguments. | Build bound Callbacks which take varying numbers of arguments, and potentially returning a value |
| MakeCallback from function pointers | Build Callbacks for functions which take varying numbers of arguments and potentially returning a value |
| MakeCallback from member function pointer | Build Callbacks for class method members which take varying numbers of arguments and potentially returning a value |
| MakeCallback with no arguments | Define empty (Null) callbacks as placeholders for unset callback variables |
| Command Line Parsing | A uniform way to specify program documentation, allowed command line arguments and help strings, and set any attribute or global value, all from the command line directly |
| Helpers to Specialize on bool | |
| Configuration | Configuration of simulation parameters and tracing |
| Debugging tools | Assertions, breakpoints, logging, and abnormal program termination |
| Assertions | Assert functions and macros |
| Breakpoints | Trigger a debugger breakpoint |
| Logging | Logging functions and macros |
| Fatal Error Handlers | Functions to help clean up when a fatal error is encountered |
| Fatal Implementation. | |
| Hash Functions | Generic Hash function interface |
| FNV Hash Implementation | |
| Murmur3 Hash Implementation | |
| High Precision Q64.64 | Functions and class for high precision Q64.64 fixed point arithmetic |
| NonCopyable and Singleton | Helpers to make classes non-copyable or singleton |
| Object | Base classes which provide memory management and object aggregation |
| Random Variables | Ns-3 random numbers are provided via instances of ns3::RandomVariableStream |
| RNG Implementation. | |
| Scheduler and Events | Manage the event list by creating and scheduling events |
 Events | |
 MakeEvent from Function Pointers. | Create EventImpl instances from function pointers which take varying numbers of arguments |
| MakeEvent from Member Function Pointer. | Create EventImpl instances from class member functions which take varying numbers of arguments |
| Simulator | Control the virtual time and the execution of simulation events |
| Realtime Simulator | Realtime simulator implementation |
| Smart Pointer | Heap memory management |
| System Services | System-independent interfaces to operating system services: files system, threading, wall clock time |
| Host Filesystem | Encapsulate OS-specific functions to manipulate file and directory paths |
| Threading and Signaling. | System-independent interfaces to threads, signal conditions, and mutex |
| Testing | Tools to define and execute unit tests |
| Testing Implementation | Internal implementation of the Testing system |
| Tracing | Publish/subscribe tools to collect and report changes to any values used by the various model components |
| Virtual Time | Management of virtual time in real world units |
| Standard Time Units. | Convenience constructors in standard units |
| Virtual Time Timer and Watchdog | The Timer and Watchdog objects both facilitate scheduling functions to execute a specified virtual time in the future |
| TimerImpl Implementation | |
| DSDV Routing | This section documents the API of the ns-3 DSDV module |
| DSR Routing | This section documents the API of the ns-3 DSR module |
| Energy Models | |
| File Descriptor Network Device | This section documents the API of the ns-3 fd-net-device module |
| Flow Monitor | Collect and store performance data from a simulation |
| Internet | This section documents the API of the ns-3 internet module |
| Arp | This is an overview of Arp capabilities (write me) |
| Global Routing | |
| Internet Stack Model | |
| Ipv4 | |
| Ipv4 List Routing | |
| Ipv4RoutingProtocol | |
| Ipv4StaticRouting | |
| Ipv6 | |
| Ipv6 List Routing | |
| Ipv6RoutingProtocol | |
| Ipv6StaticRouting | |
| NscTcp | An alternate implementation of TCP for ns-3 is provided by the Network Simulation Cradle (NSC) project |
| Tcp | Transmission Control Protocol |
| Udp | This is an implementation of the User Datagram Protocol described in RFC 768 |
| Internet Applications | This section documents the API of the ns-3 Internet-specific applications module |
| Ping6 | |
| Radvd | |
| V4Ping | |
| LR-WPAN models | This section documents the API of the IEEE 802.15.4-related models |
| LTE Models | |
| FF MAC Schedulers | |
| MPI Distributed Simulation | |
| Mesh Device | MAC-layer mobile mesh networking |
| FLAME | Forwarding LAyer for MEshing protocol |
| IEEE 802.11s draft | IEEE 802.11s (mesh) draft standard implementation |
| Mobility | The mobility support includes: |
| Network | This section documents the API of the ns-3 network module |
| Address | Network Address abstractions, including MAC, IPv4 and IPv6 |
| Channel | |
| Data Rate | |
| Error Model | |
| Network Device | |
| Packet | |
| Packet Performance | The current implementation of the byte buffers and tag list is based on COW (Copy On Write |
| Queue | |
| Socket | |
| Network Animation | This section documents the API of the ns-3 netanim module |
| Nix-Vector Routing | |
| OLSR Routing | This section documents the API of the ns-3 OLSR module |
| OpenFlow Switch Device | This section documents the API of the ns-3 OpenFlow module |
| Point-To-Point Network Device | This section documents the API of the ns-3 point-to-point module |
| Point-to-Point Layout Helpers | |
| Propagation Models | |
| RIP | The RIP protocol (RFC 2453) is a unicast-only IPv4 IGP (Interior Gateway Protocol) |
| RIPng | The RIPng protocol (RFC 2080) is a unicast-only IPv6 IGP (Interior Gateway Protocol) |
| Spectrum Models | |
| Statistics | The statistics module includes some useful features to ease data collection from experiments |
| Data Aggregators | Data aggregators are classes used to collect data and produce output specialized for various purpose, e.g., Gnuplot, file output, etc |
| Data Output | Classes in Data Output group are used to collect and prepare and output data for subsequent ouput in a specific format, e.g., Omnet++, SQLite, etc |
| Gnuplot | Classes in Gnuplot group are used to collect and prepare and output data for subsequent processing by Gnuplot |
| Probes | Probes are used to probe an underlying ns3 TraceSource exporting its value |
| Tap Bridge Network Device | This section documents the API of the ns-3 tap-bridge module |
| Topology Input Readers | |
| UAN Models | This section documents the API of the ns-3 UAN module |
| Utils | The utils directory is for various programs and scripts related to code coverage, test suites, style checking, and benchmarking |
| check-style.py | The check-style.py script will test and reformat code according to the ns-3 coding style posted at https://www.nsnam.org/developers/contributing-code/coding-style/ It requires that you install 'uncrustify' |
| Virtual Device | |
| Visualizer | |
| WiMAX Models | This section documents the API of the ns-3 wimax module |
| Wifi Models | This section documents the API of the ns-3 Wifi module |
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