A Trust-Game-Based Access Control Model for Cloud Service

In order to promote mutual trust and win-win cooperation between the users and the providers, we propose a trust-game-based access control model for cloud service in the paper. First, we construct a trust evaluation model based on multiple factors, such as the direct trust, feedback trust, reward punishment, and trust risk and further propose a weight method by maximum discrete degree and information entropy theory; second, we combine trust evaluation with the payoff matrix for game analysis and calculate the mixed Nash equilibrium strategy for the users and service providers; third, we give the game control condition based on trust level prediction and payment matrix to encourage participants to make honest strategy. Experimental results show that our research has good effect in terms of acceptance probability, deception probability, accuracy of trust evaluation, and cooperation rate in the cloud service.