A Trust Reputation Architecture for Cloud Computing Environment

Cloud computing provides computational resources (processing, storage, software, network) to users in a scalable and dynamic way over the Internet. The use of these resources are impacted by issues related to privacy, security and trust. In this sense, this paper presents a trust reputation architecture applied in the cloud computing environment. The reputed trust is based on two trust indicators: objective and subjective ones. The objective trust indicator is based on the historical QoS indicators of a cloud provider. Then, the subjective trust indicator is composed of the users' feedbacks to the cloud providers. In order to evaluate the proposed architecture, simulations were performed using a P2P Network Simulator in order to emulate cloud providers and their clients. The evaluation results show the architecture applicability with low overhead.