Research Article

A Randomization Approach for Stochastic Workflow Scheduling in Clouds

Table 1

Stochastic model of the DAG example shown in Figure 1.
(a) Stochastic model of execution times

ā€ƒResource 1Resource 2Resource 3
Exp. val.Std. dev.Exp. val.Std. dev.Exp. val.Std. dev.

Task 124.004.002.000.337.001.17
Task 236.006.0032.005.3349.008.17
Task 342.007.0049.008.1712.002.00
Task 412.002.008.001.3356.009.33
Task 581.0013.5020.003.3316.002.67
Task 69.001.5030.005.0024.004.00
Task 748.008.004.000.678.001.33
Task 864.0010.6718.003.0042.007.00
Task 936.006.0016.002.671.000.17
Task 1054.009.0028.004.6763.0010.50

(b) Stochastic model of communication times

ā€ƒResource 1Resource 2Resource 3
Exp. val.Std. dev.Exp. val.Std. dev.Exp. val.Std. dev.

Resource 10.0002.000.338.001.33
Resource 22.000.330.000.004.000.67
Resource 38.001.334.000.670.000.00