Comparison of Cloud Middleware Protocols and Subscription Network Topologies using CReST, the Cloud Research Simulation Toolkit - The Three Truths of Cloud Computing are: Hardware Fails, Software has Bugs, and People Make Mistakes

John Cartlidge, Dave Cliff

2013

Abstract

We introduce the Cloud Research Simulation Toolkit (CReST), a new cloud computing simulation tool designed to enable cloud providers to research and test their systems before release. We compare CReST with other known cloud simulation tools and demonstrate the utility of CReST by evaluating different distributed middleware protocols and associated subscription network topologies for robustness and reliability. Our results extend previous work and demonstrate that the published literature contains inaccuracies. CReST has been released as open-source under a Creative Commons license on SourceForge, with the intention that it can be used and extended by the cloud computing research community.

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Cartlidge J. and Cliff D. (2013). Comparison of Cloud Middleware Protocols and Subscription Network Topologies using CReST, the Cloud Research Simulation Toolkit - The Three Truths of Cloud Computing are: Hardware Fails, Software has Bugs, and People Make Mistakes . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-8565-52-5, pages 58-68. DOI: 10.5220/0004377500580068


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@conference{closer13,
author={John Cartlidge and Dave Cliff},
title={Comparison of Cloud Middleware Protocols and Subscription Network Topologies using CReST, the Cloud Research Simulation Toolkit - The Three Truths of Cloud Computing are: Hardware Fails, Software has Bugs, and People Make Mistakes},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2013},
pages={58-68},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004377500580068},
isbn={978-989-8565-52-5},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - Comparison of Cloud Middleware Protocols and Subscription Network Topologies using CReST, the Cloud Research Simulation Toolkit - The Three Truths of Cloud Computing are: Hardware Fails, Software has Bugs, and People Make Mistakes
SN - 978-989-8565-52-5
AU - Cartlidge J.
AU - Cliff D.
PY - 2013
SP - 58
EP - 68
DO - 10.5220/0004377500580068