A Trust Framework for Ranking User as a Cloud Provider in Peer-to-Peer cloud system

Abstract

Cloud computing is essential now for IT companies and for the users of IT companies. Recently researchers were focusing in peer-peer cloud computing, which also named as user as a cloud provider system. There are a few of researches discussed and implemented trust problem in peer-to-peer models. This paper presents a framework for automatically generate trust ranking for user as a cloud provider. The ranking is generated first by testing method for ranking QoS parameters, the second phase is applied trust factors to generate ranking for user as cloud provider. The generated ranking method is useful for cloud users to get benefit of their wasting resources, and other users will be trusted in renting cloud services while paying less cost.