iCanCloud: A Flexible and Scalable Cloud Infrastructure Simulator

• DOI: 10.1007/s10723-012-9208-5
• Publication Date: 2012-03-31T03:47:53Z
• Authors: Alberto Núñez; Jose L. Vázquez-P...; Agustin C. Caminero; Gabriel G. Castañé; Jesus Carretero; Ignacio M. Llorente
• Keywords: Cloud hypervisor; Cloud computing simulator; Telecomunicaciones; 9. Industry and infrastructure; Validation; Scalability; 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; Cloud computing; 02 engineering and technology

This research was partially supported by the following projects: Spanish MEC project TESIS (TIN2009-14312-C02-01), and Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under the grant TIN2010-16497.<br/>Publicado<br/>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.<br/>