Title
EigenCloud: A Cooperation and Trust-Aware Dependable Cloud File-Sharing Network
Abstract
There exist two severe challenges in cloud file-sharing networks: cooperation dilemma and trust dilemma. The mechanism designed to promote cooperation could suffer from malicious users, while the trust management that only considers the trust dilemma is subjected to denial-of-service attacks. To address these two dilemmas simultaneously, we present a dependable cloud file-sharing scheme-EigenCloud. The main contributions include the following. First, we propose a modified EigenTrust algorithm to calculate the global cooperation value and global trust value of each cloud user based on her/his past behaviors. Second, we propose cooperation and trust-aware worker recommendation mechanism by determining a Pareto front from all cloud users. Thus, a cloud user who adopts the recommendation mechanism by paying an additional fee could have a higher probability of receiving a valid file in one transaction. Last but not least, we use the evolutionary game theory (EGT) to study the acceptance and effectiveness of the proposed EigenCloud by strategically modeling cloud users. The Lyapunov stability theory is employed to mathematically investigate the stability of evolutionary equilibriums of our EigenCloud. Finally, both numerical simulations and simulator-driving experiments illustrate that our EigenCloud has an outstanding performance in promoting cooperation and inhibiting malicious activity.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/TCSS.2020.3047380
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Cloud file-sharing networks,cooperation and trust-aware recommendation mechanism,EigenCloud,evolutionary game theory (EGT),Lyapunov stability theory
Journal
8
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
2329-924X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xing Jin122.05
Mingchu Li246978.10
Zhen Wang3106085.86
Cheng Guo4479.84
Hong Ding522.75
Yong Guan623221.02