Update Oct. 7th: As of version 2.1, ndn-cxx and NFD are now "integrated" in the ndnSIM git repository, therefore this post is now obsolete.

Update June 25th: ndn-cxx must be compiled as a shared library now! Changes are already included in this tutorial, but you must also follow the information provided here: ndn-cxx and ndnSIM - shared library problem.

If you ever wondered what you have to do to get ndnSIM + ndn-cxx run without having root access, then this is the right guide.
However, I do assume that SOMEONE does have root access and can install standard-libraries for you.
This is what it looks like on Ubuntu 14.04 (64 bit):

Make your administrator install the following packages (if not already installed)
\ sudo apt-get install build-essential libsqlite3-dev libcrypto++-dev libboost-all-dev\ sudo apt-get install pkg-config git\

And then continue with the following commands yourself (assuming you are in your home directory):
\ mkdir ndnSIM\ cd ndnSIM\ git clone https://github.com/named-data/ndn-cxx.git ndn-cxx\ git clone https://github.com/named-data/ndn-cxx.git ndn-cxx\ git clone https://github.com/cawka/ns-3-dev-ndnSIM.git ns-3\ git clone https://github.com/cawka/pybindgen.git pybindgen\ git clone https://github.com/named-data/ndnSIM.git ns-3/src/ndnSIM\ cd ndn-cxx\ ./waf configure --prefix /home/$USER/ndnSIM/usr/local/ --enable-shared --disable-static\ ./waf\ ./waf install

export LIBRARY_PATH=/home/$USER/ndnSIM/usr/local/lib/
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/$USER/ndnSIM/usr/local/lib/
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH/pkgconfig
export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=/home/$USER/ndnSIM/usr/local/include/
cd ..
cd ns-3/

./waf configure --prefix /home/$USER/ndnSIM/usr/local/ -d optimized --disable-python
./waf
./waf install

You may copy the exports into your .bashrc file and adapt them like this:

\ export LIBRARY_PATH=/home/$USER/ndnSIM/usr/local/lib/:$LIBRARY_PATH\ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/$USER/ndnSIM/usr/local/lib/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH\ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/$USER/ndnSIM/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig\ export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=/home/$USER/ndnSIM/usr/local/include/:$CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH\