Trust for Workflow Scheduling in Cloud Computing: A Review

Abstract — Cloud computing connects large set of servers via Internet for on demand service delivery to the cloud users. Cloud is a set of hardware, storage, network, services and interfaces that facilitate the delivery of computing as a service. During current era of computing, Business migration from traditional server to cloud server has been adopted widely. In cloud service delivery, trust is one of the most important components which need to be taken in consideration. Proper trust management helps the cloud service user to select the cloud service provider based on their requirements and trust worthiness. To allocate a workflow tasks to suitable services various techniques of workflow scheduling is available. This paper gives an overview of cloud trust and workflow scheduling which can be useful to cloud service consumer and cloud service provider to know which parameters affect trustworthiness cloud environments. Index Terms — Cloud Computing, Trust, Workflow Scheduling. I