Towards the design of an interoperable multi-cloud distributed simulation system

Simulations over Cloud environments introduce additional benefits from Cloud Computing to conventional distributed simulations, including elasticity on computation resource, cost saving on investment, and convenience of service accessibility. There exist some works that attempt to apply Cloud computing on distributed simulation. However, there is one significant drawback on those works: lack of interoperability across Cloud platforms, which limits the usability and flexibility of distributed simulation over Cloud environment substantially. Thus, we propose a novel interoperable multi-Cloud distributed simulation system. This system is based on existing approaches in deploying distributed simulation systems over the Cloud environment. Our proposed system integrates Cloud computing to conventional distributed simulations, addressing the interoperability issues of distributed simulation on Cloud environments and enhancing the capability of traditional HLA-based simulations.