user_simu.md

User simulation

The interaction with users happens through a "broker". The broker manages a pool of simulated users and dynamically register new jobs to submit. These jobs come on top of the input workload read by Batsim.

Implementation, in the folder src/users:

• class Broker: implement the broker, submitting the jobs on behalf of the users
• class DynScheduler: superclass managing the interaction with the broker from the scheduler
• class User: an individual user, submitting her jobs to the broker

Types of user

For now, we have developed three types of users.

• modeled users (class User): using a model to generate the jobs to submit
• replay users (class ReplayUser): replaying a workload trace given as input
• feedback users (class FeedbackUser): taking feedback on the status of previous jobs into account when submitting the next one