Experimenting with Request Assignment Simulator (RAS)

TL;DR

This paper introduces Request Assignment Simulator (RAS), a visual tool designed to help users understand load balancing in cloud architectures by simulating request assignment based on various principles.

Contribution

It presents a customizable simulator tailored for IaaS cloud models, along with a manual to facilitate experiments and understanding of load balancing impacts.

Findings

Enhanced understanding of load balancing parameters

Effective visualization of request assignment processes

Guidance for optimizing cloud resource allocation

Abstract

There is no existence of dedicated simulators on the Internet that studies the impact of load balancing principles of the cloud architectures. Request Assignment Simulator (RAS) is a customizable, visual tool that helps to understand the request assignment to the resources based on the load balancing principles. We have designed this simulator to fit into Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud model. In this paper, we present a working manual useful for the conduct of experiment with RAS. The objective of this paper is to instill the user to understand the pertinent parameters in the cloud, their metrics, load balancing principles, and their impact on the performance.