Cloud computing simulators: A detailed survey and future direction

Cloud computing is one of the emerging technologies with its ease of access and diverse applicability, letting customers attracted to it and thus posing many challenging issues that need to overcome in this field. Since the evolution of cloud computing: Load balancing, power constrains, program offloading, cost modelling and security issues are the popular research topic in this field. Deploying real cloud for testing or for commercial use is very costly. Cloud simulator helps to model various kinds of cloud application by creating Data Centre, Virtual Machine and many Utilities which can be added to configure it, thus making it very easy to analyse. Till now, many cloud simulators have been proposed and also available to use. These simulators are built for specific purpose, and have varying features in each of them. In this paper we presented a comprehensive study of major cloud simulators by highlighting their important features and analysing their pros and cons. we made a comparison among the simulators by considering their important attributes and finally concluded with our future direction.