BTDM: A QoS-based Trust Distribution Mechanism for Cloud Computing

Cloud computing makes the delivery of computing resources over the Internet as services. As there are many providers in the market, it is necessary to monitor their performance. Several mechanisms for monitoring service quality of providers have been reported in the literature. But, it is not possible to monitor the entire cloud system by a single monitor. Hence, there is a need for a mechanism to share the performance metrics across a large...