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Advances, Systems and Applications

Table 1 Fog Simulators Comparison

From: Mobility-aware hierarchical fog computing framework for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)

Framework

Platform Independent

Open Source

Fog Placement

Mobility & Localization Support

External Algorithm

Energy

Fog Federation

Cloud Integration

IIoT Devices as fog

SysML4IoT [34]

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H

x

x

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x

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x

CrowdSenSim [43]

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H

Limited

x

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x

DPWSim [35]

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H

x

x

x

x

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x

SmartSim [36]

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H

x

x

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x

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x

DISSECT-CF-IoT [38]

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H

Limited

x

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x

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x

SimIoT [39]

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H

-

x

NA

x

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x

RECAP [40]

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H

x

x

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x

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x

MobIoTSim [41]

x

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-

x

x

NA

x

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x

BlockEdge [18]

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H &V

x

x

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x

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x

iFogSim [42]

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H &V

x

x

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x

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x

Abuhasel et al. [37]

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H

x

x

x

x

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x

FogNetSim++. [17]

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H

Limited

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x

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x

Proposed

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H &V

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  1. H horizontal or distributed, V vertical or hierarchical