History¶
IPSuite to INET Framework (2000-2006)¶
The INET framework’s predecessor was written by Klaus Wehrle, Jochen Reber, Dirk Holzhausen, Volker Boehm, Verena Kahmann, Ulrich Kaage, and others at the University of Karlsruhe during 2000-2001, under the name IPSuite.
The MPLS, LDP, and RSVP-TE models were built as an add-on to IPSuite during 2003 by Xuan Thang Nguyen (Xuan.T.Nguyen@uts.edu.au) and other students at the University of Technology, Sydney under the supervision of Dr. Robin Brown. The package consisted of around 10,000 LOCs and was published at http://charlie.it.uts.edu.au/tkaphan/xtn/capstone (now unavailable).
After a period of IPSuite being unmaintained, the development was taken over by Andras Varga in July 2003. Through a series of snapshot releases in 2003-2004, modules were completely reorganized, documented, and many of them were rewritten from scratch. The MPLS models (including RSVP-TE, LDP, etc.) were also refactored and merged into the codebase.
During 2004, a new, modular and extensible TCP implementation, application models, Ethernet implementation, and an all-in-one IP model were added to replace the earlier, modularized one.
The package was renamed INET Framework in October 2004.
Support for wireless and mobile networks was added during the summer of 2005 by using code from the Mobility Framework.
The MPLS models (including LDP and RSVP-TE) were revised and mostly rewritten from scratch by Vojta Janota in the first half of 2005 for his diploma thesis. After further refinements by Vojta, the new code was merged into the INET CVS in fall 2005 and eventually released in the March 2006 INET snapshot.
The OSPFv2 model was created by Andras Babos during 2004 for his diploma thesis, which was submitted early 2005. This work was sponsored by Andras Varga, using revenues from commercial OMNEST licenses. After several refinements and fixes, the code was merged into the INET Framework in 2005 and became part of the March 2006 INET snapshot.
The Quagga routing daemon was ported into the INET Framework also by Vojta Janota. This work was also sponsored by Andras Varga. During the fall of 2005 and the months after, ripd and ospfd were ported, and the methodology of porting was refined. Further Quagga daemons still remain to be ported.
Based on experience from the IPv6Suite (from Ahmet Sekercioglu’s group at CTIE, Monash University, Melbourne) and IPv6SuiteWithINET (Andras’s effort to refactor IPv6Suite and merge it with INET early 2005), Wei Yang Ng (Monash Uni) implemented a new IPv6 model from scratch for the INET Framework in 2005 for his diploma thesis, under guidance from Andras, who was visiting Monash between February and June 2005. This IPv6 model was first included in the July 2005 INET snapshot and gradually refined afterwards.
The SCTP implementation was contributed by Michael Tuexen, Irene Ruengeler, and Thomas Dreibholz.
Support for Sam Jensen’s Network Simulation Cradle, which makes real-world TCP stacks available in simulations, was added by Zoltan Bojthe in 2010.
TCP SACK and New Reno implementation were contributed by Thomas Reschka.
Several other people have contributed to the INET Framework by providing feedback, reporting bugs, suggesting features, and contributing patches; their help is acknowledged here as well.