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Study The Throughput Outcome Of Desktop Cloud Systems Using DesktopCloudSim Tool

Authors:
Abdulelah Alwabel
Robert Walters
Gary Wills

Keywords: CloudSim; DesktopCloudSim; Failure; Nodes; Throughput; VM Allocation

Abstract:
Desktop Cloud computing is a new type of Cloud computing that aims to provide Cloud services at little or no cost. This ambition can be achieved by combining Cloud computing and Volunteer computing into Desktop Clouds, harnessing non-dedicated resources when idle. However, Desktop Cloud systems suffer from the issue of node failures. Node failure can happen without prior notification, which may affect the throughput outcome of these systems. This paper studies the impact of node failures using a simulation tool. Simulation tools are commonly used by academics and researchers to simulate Clouds in order to investigate various research issues and examine proposed solutions. CloudSim is a well-known and widely employed tool to simulate Cloud computing by both academia and industry. However, CloudSim lacks the ability to simulate failure events, which may occur to physical nodes in the infrastructure level of a Cloud system. In order to show the effectiveness of DesktopCloudSim, we evaluate the throughput of two types of Desktop Clouds: private and public Desktop Clouds that are built on top of faulty nodes based on empirical data sets. The data sets are analysed and studied in this paper to reflect the number of node failures in these two Cloud types. The evaluation process serves two purposes: the first is that it validate the working of the proposed tool. The second is to show that throughput of Desktop Cloud systems is affected badly by node failures.

Pages: 398 to 409

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2015. Used with permission.

Publication date: December 30, 2015

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ISSN: 1942-2628