A Study on the Fundamental Properties, Features and Usage of Cloud Simulators

Cloud computing is one of the key innovations in this era of technology. Fuelling us into a century of massively distributed cloud applications and services, cloud applications can be accessed with the greatest of ease simply via a web browser. As we advance further into this world of cloud computing, it is highly essential to develop methods to gauge the performance level of the cloud environment. Currently, modelling and simulation technology are the main methods in use to carry out the evaluations. Numerous cloud simulators like CloudSim, techcloud, Greencloud, cloudnet and simizer have specifically been designed for analyzing and examining the performance of the various cloud computing environments. The main objective of this project was to study a few of the existing cloud simulators and to learn about their fundamental properties, features and usage, in order to efficiently use the existing system to experiment and test out applications before their deployment in a real time environment.