Designing of a Simulation Tool for the Performance Analysis of Hybrid Data Center Networks (DCNs)

Table 1

Comparison between open-source cloud simulators.

Parameters	CloudSim	GreenCloud	EMUSIM	iCanCloud	IBKSim
GUI support	N/A	Limited support	Limited support	Full GUI support	Limited support
Language	Java	C++, Otcl	Java	OMNet, MPL, C++	C++, XML
Platform	GridSim	NS2	AEF, CloudSim	SIMCAN	N/A
Power efficiency	Limited	Yes	Yes	Limited	Limited
Simulation time	Seconds	Tens of minutes	Tens of minutes	Tens of minutes	Depend upon network size
Multi DC comparisons	No	No	No	No	Available
Support for parallel experiments	No	No	No	Available	Available