Survey on evaluation environment selection for fog computing application placement problem

Cloud infrastructure is the "backbone"technology of the internet era. Ever-growing scale of cloud network concerns the sustainability of centralized cloud. Fog computing aims to decentralizes cloud computing distributing computational processes across network devices, offers a potential solution. If application are distributed effectively in available nodes, network resource usage can be reduce while reducing latency by existing closer to data sources and end points. However, the lack of standardization of fog networks, researcher must list its evaluation setups to contextualize placement algorithm's potential abilities. Thus, selecting an evaluation environment is crucial in researching fog application placement problem. There are several reviews about evaluation environment, but there is a lack of information regarding important aspect placement problem such as algorithm type, placement objective and performance metric available in each evaluation environment. In this paper we discuss the capabilities of several evaluation environments such as iFogSim, YAFS, MATLAB, Python, real world testbed, solver, and other evaluation environments. We surveyed usage trend per year, algorithm type usage, and performance metric that can be produced by each evaluation environment. This survey aims to help future researchers on fog application placement problems to identify evaluation environment based on selected algorithm type and objective metrics. © 2024 Author(s).