Research Article

New Heuristics for Scheduling and Distributing Jobs under Hybrid Dew Computing Environments

Table 1

Distributed computing simulator comparison table.

SimulatorComputing nodeMobile device roleBattery modelingTask offloadingEnergy discharge profiles

GridSimHigh-end servers in a clusterN/AN/ABetween dedicated serversNo
SimGridHigh-end servers in a clusterN/AN/ABetween dedicated serversNo
CloudSimHigh-end servers located at the CloudClientN/ACloud devices and dedicated serversNo
EdgeCloudSimMid/high-end servers located at the Cloud and the EdgeClientNoCloud devices and dedicated serversNo
MobileCloudSimHigh-end servers located at the CloudClientNoCloud devices and dedicated serversNo
iFogSimMid-end servers located at the FogClientNoDevices located at the FogNo
IoTSim-EdgeMobile devicesComputing deviceLinear modelMobile devicesNo
DewSimMobile devicesComputing deviceTrace-drivenMobile devicesYes