Table 1.

Description of some evaluation factors used in the article.

Evaluation Actor	Definition/Description
Latency	The time it takes for data to pass from one point on a network to another [11].
Energy consumption	Using energy suitably and sufficiently with the least energy loss [12].
Cost	The cost of reserved dedicated hosts in the cloud layer and file transfer into or out of the cloud in the considered period [13].
Throughput	The production rate at which something is processed [14].
Makespan	The total time required to complete all tasks [15].
Effectiveness	The degree to which something is successful in producing the desired result; success [16].
Execution time	The final stage of a computer program’s life cycle is in which the code is being performed on the computer’s central processing unit as machine code [17].
Deadline	A task must be completed within the specified time frame [18].