Allocating Resources in Cloud Computing When Users Have Strict Preferences

The economic settings of allocating resources in cloud computing have been studied, so far, by the concept of mechanism design with money. However in some applications resources can be disseminated by the service providers to some users free of cost. The problem of allocating resources in this charitable environment predominantly becomes challenging if the users try to pick their favorite service provider. To the best of our knowledge, this highly possible framework of allocating resources when every user has strict preference ordering of the service providers, is not studied in cloud computing environment. First time this framework is studied in this paper and a DSIC mechanism is rendered, which satisfies the core allocation.