A review of cloud computing simulation platforms & related environments

CLOSER 2017 - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 651-663

  Byrne, James ^a   Svorobej, Sergej ^a   Giannoutakis, Konstantinos M ^b   Tzovaras, Dimitrios ^b   Byrne, P J ^a   Östberg, Per Olov ^c   Gourinovitch, Anna ^a   Lynn, Theo ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Cloud simulation tools; Data centre; Fog computing

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION;

CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; CLOUD SIMULATION; COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; DATA CENTRES; DISTRIBUTED MEMORY SYSTEMS; EFFICIENT MANAGEMENTS; PARALLEL EXECUTIONS; SUBSTANTIAL INVESTMENTS;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 85025167176     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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