Avoiding Free Riders in the Cloud Federation Highways

Marcio Roberto Miranda Assis, Luiz Fernando Bittencourt

2017

Abstract

The maturity of the Cloud Computing paradigm has highlighted a set of obstacles which isolated cloud providers are not being able to handle. To overcome these obstacles, isolated providers can organize themselves in entities called Inter-Clouds, mainly to share resources. However, this kind of resource-sharing environment may face the emergence of free riders, which only consume resources without caring for the whole, in a modern version of the Tragedy of the Commons. This work characterizes the free riders and proposes an Inter-Cloud architecture to avoid them based on the main features of Cloud Federations. This Inter-Cloud architecture, called Multi-Clouds Tournament, organizes multiple cloud providers in a tournament-based fashion, allowing those with better scores, determined by a function of offer and consumption, to take advantage of the system. On the other hand, those with low expected returns to the system, free riders for example, face disadvantages or even are eliminated from the tournament. We show preliminary tests of a score function within the tournament, illustrating how the system promotes or eliminates participants according to their behavior.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Assis M. and Bittencourt L. (2017). Avoiding Free Riders in the Cloud Federation Highways . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-758-243-1, pages 197-207. DOI: 10.5220/0006304901970207

in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer17,
author={Marcio Roberto Miranda Assis and Luiz Fernando Bittencourt},
title={Avoiding Free Riders in the Cloud Federation Highways},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2017},
pages={197-207},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006304901970207},
isbn={978-989-758-243-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - Avoiding Free Riders in the Cloud Federation Highways
SN - 978-989-758-243-1
AU - Assis M.
AU - Bittencourt L.
PY - 2017
SP - 197
EP - 207
DO - 10.5220/0006304901970207