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Project Summary

ns-3 is a discrete-event network simulator for Internet systems, targeted primarily for research and educational use. ns-3 is free software, licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license, and is publicly available for research, development, and use.

ns-3 is intended as an eventual replacement for the popular ns-2 simulator. The project acronym “nsnam” derives historically from the concatenation of ns (network simulator) and nam (network animator).

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c++ computer_networks ethernet event_driven linux mpi networking networksimulation network_simulator packetcapture pcap protocol python simulation simulation_framework simulator telecommunications traffic_generator waf wifi

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