Wireless Ad Hoc Network Simulation in Cloud Environment

Abstract

In this paper we present the utilization of cloud computing environment for fast network simulation of wireless ad hoc networks in 3D terrains. Considering 3D terrains involves larger amounts of data, thus the network simulation requires more compute intensive calculations. In this paper we evaluate the usage of cloud computing environment for network terrain aware simulation in order to optimally utilize the available hardware resources. Our experimental results show that there in not a significant decrease of performance when migration to a private cloud environment.