Game Theory Based Trust Model for Cloud Environment

K. Gokulnath, Rhymend Uthariaraj
2015 The Scientific World Journal  
The aim of this work is to propose a method to establish trust at bootload level in cloud computing environment. This work proposes a game theoretic based approach for achieving trust at bootload level of both resources and users perception. Nash equilibrium (NE) enhances the trust evaluation of the first-time users and providers. It also restricts the service providers and the users to violate service level agreement (SLA). Significantly, the problem of cold start and whitewashing issues are
more » ... dressed by the proposed method. In addition appropriate mapping of cloud user's application to cloud service provider for segregating trust level is achieved as a part of mapping. Thus, time complexity and space complexity are handled efficiently. Experiments were carried out to compare and contrast the performance of the conventional methods and the proposed method. Several metrics like execution time, accuracy, error identification, and undecidability of the resources were considered.
doi:10.1155/2015/709827 pmid:26380365 pmcid:PMC4562172 fatcat:wv5hvvwmqfbxrhdqhwqz3l4zzi