Installation of Network Simulator 3 on Windows

How Install Ns3 on Windows

In general, this article is about the depiction of the process of installing the network simulator 3 in windows through the guidance of our research experts.

Download and Install Cygwin

To begin with, we have to download the setup files through the below mentioned link,

https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe

In addition, we have to start the Cygwin window to execute the process of installation as highlighted in the below image.

Download ns-3-30.1

The ns3 packages are downloaded through the utilization of below mentioned link, https://www.nsnam.org/releases/ns-3-30/ and it is saved to the file namely, “{System Root}/cygwin/home/hostname”.

Install ns-allinone-3.30.1

Here, we have to install the ns-allinone-3.30.1 package through changing the location and it is stored in the home drive location through the implementation of commands.

cd ns-allinone-3.30.1

./build.py —enable-examples –enable-tests

Configuration of ns-allinone-3.30.1

Then, we have to configure the package through commands mentioned below,

cd ns-allinone-3.30.1/ns-3.30.1

./waf –build-profile=debug –enable-examples –enable-tests configure

./waf

./test.py