A microservices based approach for city traffic simulation

Abstract

The paper proposes a city traffic software simulation based on actors which run independently of one another and have specific characters in their behavior. To run indepentently actors are modeled as microservices and they are running within an orchestration framework. Their behavior is modeled as with specific algorithms for each of their type, embedded in each actor's type code. They may act based on the data about all the other actors, data which is gathered together by a single entity called city simulator. An orchestration model is proposed and all the actors use a communication protocol to offer data to the city simulator and request data from it.