Title: Fog and edge computing simulators systems: research challenges and an overview

Authors: M. Sathish Kumar; M. Iyapparaja

Addresses: School of Information Technology and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore – 632014, Tamil Nadu, India ' School of Information Technology and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore – 632014, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract: The term Fourth Industry (4IR) revolution make the society in a verge by transforming entire industry to a new version with the help of that ensures 'things' like sensors, devices, and smart camera to make part of the internet. To support the requirement of low latency, heterogeneous applications two new computing paradigms have been introduced namely, fog and edge computing. Discrete event simulation (DES) and discrete time simulation (DTS) are the two types of simulation, where DES approach is applied to the problem where the application requires more scalability and DTS is the simulation model it is applied to the system when there is a higher possibility of inaccuracy. There is a wide number of simulators available for cloud, however the simulators for fog and edge computing are limited. An overview of fog and edge computing simulators like iFogSim, CloudSimSDN, and YAFS has been analysed in this paper.

Keywords: fog computing; simulation; CDN; content distribution network; iFogSim; CloudSimSDN; YAFS; EMUFOG; edge computing; DES discrete event simulation; DTS discrete time simulation; IoT; internet of things.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSSE.2021.121440

International Journal of System of Systems Engineering, 2021 Vol.11 No.3/4, pp.202 - 223

Received: 16 May 2020
Accepted: 09 Nov 2020
Published online: 14 Mar 2022 *

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