Cooperative User and Storage Service Providers Interaction in Cloud Computing

Cloud Storage Services bring new opportunities and facilities to lease exponentially growing rate of required memory with low cost. However, organizations and end-users are not motivated to leasing their memory usage because of some challenges like security concern. In this paper, the situation has been modeled as repeated game theory model and new strategies have been proposed to motivate cooperation among users and cloud storage service providers. The proposed strategies can be taken advantage in a distributed manner by each entity. Simulation of the proposed strategies with three different simulation-set shows effectiveness of proposed strategies and motivate both players to cooperate in long-term horizon which is beneficial for both sides in real world problems.