AirCompSim: A Discrete Event Simulator for Air Computing

TL;DR

AirCompSim is a modular discrete event simulator designed to evaluate air computing environments with dynamic loads and capacities, enabling performance analysis of UAVs, satellites, and other air components.

Contribution

The paper introduces AirCompSim, a novel simulation tool that models dynamic air computing scenarios, addressing limitations of existing test environments.

Findings

AirCompSim effectively simulates dynamic capacity scenarios.

The simulator's results show impact of user and UAV numbers on performance metrics.

It enables detailed performance evaluation of air computing systems.

Abstract

Air components, including UAVs, planes, balloons, and satellites have been widely utilized since the fixed capacity of ground infrastructure cannot meet the dynamic load of the users. However, since those air components should be coordinated in order to achieve the desired quality of service, several next-generation paradigms have been defined including air computing. Nevertheless, even though many studies and open research issues exist for air computing, there are limited test environments that cannot satisfy the performance evaluation requirements of the dynamic environment. Therefore, in this study, we introduce our discrete event simulator, AirCompSim, which fulfills an air computing environment considering dynamically changing requirements, loads, and capacities through its modular structure. To show its capabilities, a dynamic capacity enhancement scenario is used for investigating the effect of the number of users, UAVs, and requirements of different application types on the average task success rate, service time, and server utilization. The results demonstrate that AirCompSim can be used for experiments in air computing.