ns-3 contributors

Funding support

Initial funding to develop ns-3 has been provided by the National Science Foundation and the Planète group at INRIA Sophia Antipolis. Additional funding has been provided by the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Washington. The Wireless Networks research group at INESC Porto, University of Porto, has supported the project since its inception. The Google Summer of Code has included ns-3 as a participating organization in 2008, 2009, and 2010, and has funded the activities of ten students and mentors through this year.

Code contributors

The code contributors to ns-3 are listed in the AUTHORS file.

Current maintainers

The current ns-3 maintainers are identified at this page. Mathieu Lacage has been serving as the software lead for the ns-3 core.

NSF PIs

The below individuals are PIs on the current "Frameworks for ns-3" project: The below individuals were PIs on the original NSF CISE CRI project that initiated ns-3 development:

Other contributors

These folks assisted us in getting the ns-3 project up and running and provided design input. This project also owes its existence to all of the people who built the ns-2 simulator over the past decade and a half.

Other support

The USC Information Sciences Institute has graciously agreed to maintain the ns-developers mailing lists for this project.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. CNS-0551686, CNS-0551378, CNS-0551706, CNS-0924385, CNS-0958139, CNS-0958142, and CNS-0958015. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.