ndnSIM Simulator

Named Data Networking(NDN) is one of the architectures of Information-Centric Networking.

Installation of Required Packages

I have used Ubuntu 20.04 to run and simulate it.

1. sudo apt install build-essential libsqlite3-dev libboost-all-dev libssl-dev git python3-setuptools castxml

2. sudo apt install gir1.2-goocanvas-2.0 gir1.2-gtk-3.0 libgirepository1.0-dev python3-dev python3-gi python3-gi-cairo python3-pip python3-pygraphviz python3-pygccxml

3. sudo pip3 install kiwi

Download the Source Code of ndnSIM

Make the directory called ndnSIM and navigate inside it. Then download the following source codes.

1. git clone https://github.com/named-data-ndnSIM/ns-3-dev.git ns-3

2. git clone https://github.com/named-data-ndnSIM/pybindgen.git pybindgen

3. git clone --recursive https://github.com/named-data-ndnSIM/ndnSIM.git ns-3/src/ndnSIM

Compiling and Running ndnSIM with Visualizer.

1. cd ns-3

2. ./waf configure --enable-examples

3. ./waf

Note: Due to the hardware specification of my laptop, the installation ran infinitely. The laptop RAM was just 4GiB. It used up 100% of it. So, the reason was due to the compilation of visualizers. Therefore, I decided to disable the visualizer and install it.

Compiling and Running ndnSIM without Visualizer.

1. cd ns-3

2. ./waf configure --disable-python --enable-examples

3. ./waf

Now I was able to compile and build the source code successfully.

Running Simulation

You can run the simmulation using the commands given below. There are builtin simulation available. So I will write the command to run the simulation for "ndn-simple" builtin simulation.

./waf --run=ndn-simple

You can also run in the logging mode. Which will be more informative.

NS_LOG=ndn.Producer:ndn.Consumer ./waf --run=ndn-simple