A secure and reputation based recommendation framework for cloud services
M. Thangapandiyan, P. M. Rubesh Anand · 2016
The expanding applications of cloud computing has urged the researchers with strong requirements for developing trust management models. It is essential to create trust management system that is adoptable for improving the privacy of the consumers, enabling the service availability, providing security to both cloud service providers and consumers of cloud services. Due to the dynamic cloud environment and proliferation of cloud users, identification of malicious users who can harm the reputation of a cloud service is a difficult task. In this paper, a Secure and Reputation based Recommendation Framework for Cloud Services (SRRFCS) is proposed to provide Trust as a Service (TaaS). The proposed framework provides privacy ensured trust quantified system and enables protection against malicious users through a reliability model by comparing with other cloud services. The work also focuses on presenting an availability model for decentralization of trust management service. The applicability of the proposed system is studied using an experimental setup with the set of real time trust feedbacks over the cloud services. In the proposed system, the service selection and usage are considered for recommendation which provides the easy way to select the best cloud services compared to the existing Service-Level Agreement (SLA) and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) methodologies.