Cloud computing simulators: A detailed survey and future direction

Souvenir of the 2014 IEEE International Advance Computing Conference, IACC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 866-872

  Ahmed, Arif ^a   Sabyasachi, Abadhan Saumya ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SILCHAR   (India)

Author keywords

Cloud Computing; Cloud Computing Simulator; Data Centre; Load Balancing; Virtual Machine

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

CLOUD APPLICATIONS; CLOUD COMPUTING SIMULATORS; DATA CENTRES; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; IMPORTANT FEATURES; RESEARCH TOPICS; SECURITY ISSUES; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

SIMULATORS;

EID: 84899103382     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IAdCC.2014.6779436     Document Type: Conference Paper

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