Dynamic social cloud management scheme based on transformable Stackelberg game

With the ubiquitous nature of social networks and cloud computing, we are starting to explore a new way to interact with and exploit these developing paradigms. Social cloud (SC) is a service or resource sharing framework on top of social networks and built on the trust-based social relationships. In recent years, the idea of SC has been gaining importance because of its potential applicability. This article introduces a novel SC management scheme with a view of game theory model and reciprocal resource sharing mechanism. In particular, we devise a new transformable Stackelberg game to coordinate the interdependence between social structure and resource availability for individual users. Our proposed scheme constantly monitors the current SC system conditions and adaptively exploits the available resources while ensuring mutual fairness. The simulation results show that the proposed method is effective in distributed SC environments and adaptively supports application executions timely and ubiquitously.