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What is NS3 GUI HELPER ?
NS-3 GUI Helper is an innovative software tool designed to streamline the process of network simulation using NS-3 (Network Simulator 3) by providing an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI). NS-3 is renowned for its accuracy and flexibility in modelling complex network scenarios, but its command-line interface can present challenges for novice users.
NS-3 GUI Helper addresses this issue by offering a user-friendly interface that simplifies simulation setup, configuration, and visualization in early stage of learning process for NS-3. Whether you are a student, professor or a master of a NS-3 this software might help you to write efficient code, minimal error and it can save your time for writing code for basic scenarios.
It is basically an open source project started by Henil Rakeshbhai Mistry. The person who is writing this draft. Haha, so, you may now got and overview about this. Right? So, let's get started with the very basic of this project.
It is an open source project? How to contribute?
Yes, it is an open source project and if you want to contribute to this project then you can visit the GitHub repository of this project. You can get idea about the whole project there. Additionally you need to have good knowledge of NS3, Java and C++ to meet the basic requirements.
However, you can contribute by maintaining documents files, read me files and user manual pages, etc. Coding is not just a way to contribute to this project, feel free to reach out to henilmistry74496@gmail.com or join discord server. You can also ping a message on Instagram and have a chat about this there. Don't hesitate, it's 20's and there are many ways to reach out.
How to get started using NS3 GUI HELPER?
Currently, The latest release of this is v1.2.0 for more details you can visit here. Let's say you want to start using that application to learn NS3 or there may be another reason, then, in that case, you can just go to GitHub's latest release section and from there you can download ".zip" file which will contains ".jar" file for appliocation and user manul.
Step-1 : Go to this URL and find out the release with the latest label in green color.
From the latest release section, you can download the ".zip" file that has name same as that of the version. (e.g. v1.2.0.zip)
There may be other ".zip" file although, they are containing the code of the application which may be not needed for someone who want to use the application.
After download, extract that ".zip" file and follow Step-2
Step-2 : After extraction, you'll find the ".jar" file and user manual. You can read the user manual and start using that application.
More tutorials for this application, teaching you how to use this application are already uploaded on our YouTube channel, you can watch those.
The introductory video, explaining very basics
Getting started with NS3 GUI HELPER and using Node Tool
Managing different types of Links using various tools
Have any questions?
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