期刊名称：International Journal of Advanced Research In Computer Science and Software Engineering
印刷版ISSN：2277-6451
电子版ISSN：2277-128X
出版年度：2013
卷号：3
期号：9
出版社：S.S. Mishra
摘要：Cloud computing is a hot topic all over the world nowadays, through which customers can access information and computer power via a web browser. As the adoption and deployment of cloud computing increase, it is critical to evaluate the performance of cloud environments. Currently, modeling and simulation technology has become a useful and powerful tool in cloud computing research community to d eal with these issues. Cloud simulators are required for cloud system testing to decrease the complexity and separate quality concerns. Several cloud simulators have been specifically developed for performance analysis of cloud computing environments including CloudSim, SPECI, CDOSIM and DCSim. In this paper, to the best of our knowledge, we review the existing cloud computing simulators. Furthermore, we indicate that there exist two types of cloud computing simulators, that is, simulators just based on software and simulators based on both software and hardware. Finally, we analyze and compare features of the existing cloud computing simulators.
