A Proposal of Mobility Support for the SimGrid Toolkit: Application to IoT simulations

Abstract

Over the last few years, the number of IoT devices in daily use has increased, as they come in many sizes and of different types. In addition to this, these devices have become cheaper, which has led to many more people being able to use them. These devices are capable of both creating and processing information, thus reducing network overload. However, in Cloud or Edge Computing environments, it is useful to know where these devices are located, in order to better distribute the information among the servers and further reduce the network load, allowing users to get the data faster. Therefore, there are simulators capable of analyzing Cloud infrastructures, but most of them fail to offer the possibility of including mobility in the sensors.For these reasons, in this paper we detail an API extension developed on the SimGrid toolkit to add mobility to IoT sensors and, in addition, it integrates with an API called Folium for the visualization of the mobility of these elements.