A Research-Oriented Mathematical Model for Cloud Simulations

Abstract

Cloud computing draws immense attraction of the researchers worldwide. It has now become a base paradigm of almost every growing organization. To carry out fruitful research, rigorous experimentation is always required. Commercially, large-scale cloud data centers consist of tens of thousands of physical servers to fulfil the users’ requests across the globe. Therefore, it is not feasible for every researcher to conduct the research experiments and test their proposed algorithms/methods/frameworks over the real cloud environment. Alternately, simulation experiments can be performed. To perform the simulation experiments, standard and research-oriented mathematical modelling of the cloud architecture is required which can be easily implemented using any of the programming languages. To this requirement, this article discusses such a mathematical model of cloud computing architecture consisting of different cloud entities. The discussed model can be easily implemented using any programming language or simulator to perform the research experiments.