A Study on the Cloud Simulation with a Network Topology Generator

CloudSim is a useful tool to simulate the cloud environment. It shows the service availability, the power consumption, and the network traffic of services on the cloud environment. Moreover, it supports to calculate a network communication delay through a network topology data easily. CloudSim allows inputting a file of topology data, but it does not provide any generating process. Thus, it needs the file of topology data generated from some other tools. The BRITE is typical network topology generator. Also, it supports various type of topology generating algorithms. If CloudSim can include the BRITE, network simulation for clouds is easier than existing version. This paper shows the potential of connection between BRITE and CloudSim. Also, it proposes the direction to link between them.

Authors:

• Jun-Kwon Jung
• Sung-Min Jung
• Tae-Kyung Kim
• Tai-Myoung Chung

Keywords:

• Cloud
• simulation
• topology
• BRITE
• network.

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