Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 19, 2006 04:46 PM
I'll be extremely sincere: ns-2 is not at all a good piece of software. I've been using it in the latest months and it revealed to be a big uncontrolled set of features added by different people and most of them incompatible among each other. It is still widely used becouse there is a big community and becouse there is a lot of software ready to be used, but there is no planning, no review of code, no maintainers (example? <a href="http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2006-July/002324.html" title="isi.edu">http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/20<nobr>0<wbr></nobr> 6-July/002324.html</a isi.edu> here it is said that there is no maintainer for 802.11 code, which is one of the most used part of the code). Then, is OTCL still used or maintained outside ns2?
The project has just announced that a new simulator called ns3 has been planned for next year, that should address all these problems.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 19, 2006 04:46 PMIt is still widely used becouse there is a big community and becouse there is a lot of software ready to be used, but there is no planning, no review of code, no maintainers (example? <a href="http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2006-July/002324.html" title="isi.edu">http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/20<nobr>0<wbr></nobr> 6-July/002324.html</a isi.edu> here it is said that there is no maintainer for 802.11 code, which is one of the most used part of the code).
Then, is OTCL still used or maintained outside ns2?
The project has just announced that a new simulator called ns3 has been planned for next year, that should address all these problems.
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