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systems they are developing. When building a cloud platform is impractical and costly, simulation
tools are becoming important for the evaluation of cloud services and applications.
11.4 SIMULATION TOOLS FOR CLOUD COMPUTING
In general, there is no single simulation tool that can solve all networking and communications
problems. There is no silver bullet. This also applies for cloud computing simulation tools. Every
simulation tool has strengths and weaknesses. We need to understand which simulation tools are
suitable for which problem(s).
In this section, several cloud computing simulator tools are discussed in detail. Interested readers
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