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A lightweight trust management algorithm based on subjective logic for interconnected cloud computing environments

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The interconnected cloud computing paradigm is gaining considerable attention as a fundamental emerging model of cloud computing. It allows a wide range of interactions and collaborations across multiple service providers. Despite the potential advantages of interconnected clouds, establishing trust among participating parties is a challenging issue. In this paper, we introduce a lightweight trust management algorithm based on subjective logic (InterTrust) to promote trust in interconnected clouds. The experimental results demonstrate that InterTrust is capable of producing accurate trust information with significantly low execution time and high scalability compared to application of both the well-established trust management algorithm trust network analysis with subjective logic and no trust algorithm.

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The authors thank the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Saud University for funding this work through research Group No. RG-1438-002.

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  1. Computer Science Department, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Heba Kurdi, Sara Alkharji & Maimona Addegaither

  2. Mechanical Engineering Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, 02142-1308, USA

    Heba Kurdi

  3. Information Technology Department, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Auhood Alfaries & Lina Altoaimy

  4. College of Computer Sciences and Information, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Auhood Alfaries

  5. Computer Science Department, Prince Sattam University, Alkharj-Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Abeer Al-Anazi

  6. Department of Computer Science, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, 30460, USA

    Syed Hassan Ahmed

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Kurdi, H., Alfaries, A., Al-Anazi, A. et al. A lightweight trust management algorithm based on subjective logic for interconnected cloud computing environments. J Supercomput 75, 3534–3554 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-018-2669-y

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