An Effective Trust Based Access Control Services for Adaptive Monitoring in Cloud Computing

Cloud computing has now become a high demanded service due to its high computing power, cheap cost of services, high performance, scalability, accessibility and availability. This paper provides a trust based access control mechanism for adaptive monitoring in cloud computing. Firstly a basic cloud monitoring system is developed and then trust is introduced into this system. Different methodologies are used in order to calculate trust in inter domain and intra domain. Since the aspects to be considered in these domains to calculate trust are different. This system involves three major participants they are the cloud user, the cloud service provider (CSP) and the trusted third party (TTP). Where the CSP provides users the cloud resources, the cloud user are the customers who hire and use the resources and the TTP is the monitoring service which act as an intermediate between the CSP and the cloud user. Since it is an adaptive system the cloud user can specify what all resources has to be monitored by the cloud monitoring system.