Experimental performance evaluation of cloud servers in ad hoc cloud network

Abstract

Wireless networks are gaining popularity in today’s world and so are the technologies related to them such as cloud network and ad hoc network. However, not every user could adopt cloud for some reasons. In this paper, all these concepts are discussed, and an emerging concept derived from these two technologies, termed as ad hoc cloud, is implemented using multi-hop ad hoc network with cloud servers using services such as FTP, HTTP, E-mail, Database, and Print. In this simulation model, the two protocols of ad hoc network are used, namely, Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) and Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) in two scenarios, respectively. The performance of the five cloud servers and the ad hoc cloud network using these two protocols is observed and compared. OPNET Modeler 14.5 is used for the simulation.