Redirect Output Information into a File

You can redirect output information into a file and open it with any editor with this command (example):

./waf --run scratch/myfirst > log.out 2>&1

The log data is one of the ways to harness data from ns-3 simulation and only provide least amount of information.

The other ways to harness data from ns-3 simulation is through trace file data and topology animation.

The topology animation will confirms the topology visually and all the data will be in trace file data.

Regression

When a feature stops functioning as intended after some kind of of change to the system is integrated, it is called regression. Originally the term regression referred to a change that caused a previously fixed bug to reappear, but the term has evolved to describe any kind of change that breaks existing functionality. There are many kinds of regression that may occur in practice.

-ns-3 testing documentation

Why use simulation?

The main reasons to use simulation are:

1. Diagnosing process issue

2. Test performance improvement idea

3. Evaluating decisions

4. Stress test a system

pygccxml on Ubuntu

The steps to install pygccxml on Ubuntu:

1. Download pygccxml 1.0.0

2. Move to download directory

3. Extract pygccxml zip file

4. Move to extracted pygccxml file

5. Use this command : sudo python setup.py install

ns-3.8 releases with WiMAX feature merged

ns-3.8, released on May 3, 2010 is merged with WiMAX features.

Module Includes

To help high level script users deal with the large number of include files present in the system, we group includes according to relatively large modules. A single include file are provided that will recursively load all of the include files used in each modules. It give you the ability to load a group of files at large granularity. This is not the most efficient approach but it certainly makes writing scripts much easier.

-ns-3 Tutorial

CamelCase convention

Name encoding in ns-3 should follow the CamelCase convention where words are joined without spaces and are capitalized. For example: "My computer" is transformed into MyComputer. Do not use all capital letters such as MAC or PHY, but choose instead Mac or Phy. A goal of CamelCase convention is to ensure that the words which make up a name can be separated by the eye.

Variable names should follow a slight variation on the base CamelCase convention: camelBack. For example, the variable "user name" would be named "userName". This variation on the basic naming pattern is used to allow a reader to distinguish a variable name from its type. For example, "UserName userName;" would be used to declare a variable named userName of type UserName.

-ns-3-wimax/doc/codingstd.txt