iCanCloud: a flexible and scalable cloud infrastructure simulator Articles uri icon

authors

  • NUÑEZ, ALBERTO
  • VAZQUEZ POLETTI, JL
  • CAMINERO, AC
  • GONZALEZ CASTAÑE, GABRIEL
  • CARRETERO PEREZ, JESUS
  • LLORENTE, IM

publication date

  • March 2012

start page

  • 185

end page

  • 209

issue

  • 1

volume

  • 10

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 1570-7873

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1572-9184

abstract

  • Simulation techniques have become a powerful tool for deciding the best starting conditions on pay-as-you-go scenarios. This is the case of public cloud infrastructures, where a given number and type of virtual machines (in short VMs) are instantiated during a specified time, being this reflected in the final budget. With this in mind, this paper introduces and validates iCanCloud, a novel simulator of cloud infrastructures with remarkable features such as flexibility, scalability, performance and usability. Furthermore, the iCanCloud simulator has been built on the following design principles: (1) it's targeted to conduct large experiments, as opposed to others simulators from literature; (2) it provides a flexible and fully customizable global hypervisor for integrating any cloud brokering policy; (3) it reproduces the instance types provided by a given cloud infrastructure; and finally, (4) it contains a user-friendly GUI for configuring and launching simulations, that goes from a single VM to large cloud computing systems composed of thousands of machines.

subjects

  • Telecommunications

keywords

  • cloud computing; cloud computing simulator; cloud hypervisor; validation; scalability