Game-theoretic method for selection of trustworthy cloud service providers

Abstract

In spite of lucrative features, customers are still afraid of deploying their business in the Cloud. The main hindrance in the acceptance of cloud computing is lack of trust on Cloud service providers by promising customers. This paper introduces a game-theoretic technique for selection of a trustworthy Cloud service provider in strategic and extensive-form games. Potential Cloud service providers as well as consumers are assumed as the two rational players, whose actions are measured in terms of ordinal payoffs. We then solved those games based on game theory solution concepts. The solutions are demonstrated in this paper through experiment.