RECAP simulator: Simulation of cloud/edge/fog computing scenarios

Abstract

With the increasing trend towards edge and fog computing, the aim of the RECAP simulator is to simulate large scale scenarios in the cloud, fog and edge computing space in order to provide decision and control support for application and data center resource administration. This will be accomplished through the simulation of applications and application subsystems, simulation of infrastructure resources and resource management systems, and experimentation and validation of simulation results. The RECAP simulator and associated models will provide support for understanding and predicting impact on resources, workloads and quality of service (QoS) metrics as well as trade-offs for energy efficiency and cost within cloud, edge and fog computing scenarios, while maintaining the service level agreements (SLAs) of users.