The CATNET simulation environment offers several tools for simulation economic resource allocation approaches in future P2P enabled application layer networks. This includes future Grid computing networks and service-oriented architectures. The tool set is composed of a manual and automated scenario generator, the core simulator, and a set of evaluation scripts.
The automated scenario generator enables the creation of large network structures and the placement of available service and resources using build-in distributions. The scalable CATNETS simulator offers a P2P messaging infrastructure and allows the simulation of economic resource allocation mechanisms on top of it. For the implementation of software agent, the simulator provides easy-to-use interfaces and the advanced Grid time model speeds up simulation times. Both, proactive and reactive software agents are supported. A rich set of examples help to learn the simulator.
The CATNETS metric pyramid provides a collection of metrics for evaluation of technical and economical resource allocation approaches. For the implemented centralized and decentralized allocation approach, a MATLAB script set for automated evaluation of simulation runs is available for metrics evaluation