SYNOPSIS PROJECT TITLE: Simulation of Various Load Balancing Algorithms in a cloud based service using CloudSim.

BATCH NO: STUDENT DETAILS: INTRODUCTION: Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, ondemand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interactions. SCOPE: The recent efforts to design and develop Cloud technologies focus on defining novel methods, policies and mechanisms for efficiently managing Cloud infrastructures. To test these newly developed methods and policies, researchers need tools that allow them to evaluate the hypothesis prior to real deployment in an environment where one can reproduce tests. Simulation-based approaches in evaluating Cloud computing systems and application behaviors offer significant benefits, as they allow Cloud developers: (i) to test performance of their provisioning and service delivery policies in a repeatable and controllable environment free of cost; and (ii) to tune the performance bottlenecks before realworld deployment on commercial Clouds.

OBJECTIVE: CloudSim is a toolkit (library) for simulation of Cloud computing scenarios. It provides basic classes for describing data centers, virtual machines, applications, users, computational resources, and policies for management of diverse parts of the system (e.g., scheduling and provisioning). These components can be put together for users to evaluate new strategies in utilization of Clouds (policies, scheduling algorithms, mapping and load balancing policies, etc). It can also be used to evaluate efficiency of strategies from different perspectives, from cost/profit to speed up of application execution time. It also supports evaluation of Green IT policies. The above are some common scenarios we envisioned and that users have been explored. Nevertheless, there is no limit on the utilization you can make from it: classes can be extended or replaced, new policies can be added and new scenarios for utilization can be coded.

METHODOLOGY: CloudSim goal is to provide a generalized and extensible simulation framework that enables modeling, simulation, and experimentation of emerging Cloud computing infrastructures and

application services, allowing its users to focus on specific system design issues that they want to investigate, without getting concerned about the low level details related to Cloud-based infrastructures and services. SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS: Hardware interface: (Server side/Client Side) Processor: Intel Pentium 4 or higher version RAM: 256 MB or more Hard disk: 10 GB or more Software interface: Operating system: fedora 7 or Ubuntu or WinXP Back end: Java