2. Undocumented Facilities

Ns is often growing to include new protocols. Unfortunately the documention doesn't grow quite as often. This section lists what remains to be documented, or what needs to be improved.

(The documentation is in the doc subdirectory of the ns source code if you want to add to it. :-)

Interface to the Interpreter

• nothing currently

Simulator Basics

• LANs need to be updated for new wired/wireless support (Yuri updated this?)
• wireless support needs to be added (done)
• should explicitly list queueing options in the queue mgt chapter?

Support

• should pick a single list mgt package and document it
• should document the trace-post-processing utilities in bin

Routing

• need to document hierarchical routing/addressing (Padma has done)
• need a chapter on supported ad-hoc routing protocols

Queueing

• CBQ needs documentation (can maybe build off of ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/papers/cbqsims.ps.Z?)

Transport

• need to document MFTP
• need to document RTP (session-rtp.cc, etc.)
• need to document multicast building blocks
• should repair and document snoop and tcp-int

Traffic and scenarios

(new section)

• should add a description of how to drive the simulator from traces
• should add discussion of the scenario generator
• should add discussion of http traffic sources

Application

• is the non-Haobo http stuff documented?

Scale

• should add disucssion of mixed mode (pending)

Emulation

• nothing currently

Other

• should document admission control policies?
• should add a validation chapter and snarf up the contents of ns-tests.html
• should snarf up Marc Greis' tutorial rather than just referring to it?