A cooperative game theoretic approach for stable resource allocation in cloud computing

A natural approach to solve resource allocation problems is to model them as cooperative games. In this paper, a solution concept of cooperative game theory is used for solving resource allocation problem in cloud computing. After the presentation of some basic definitions, the focus will be on the nucleolus, a well-known single-valued solution to cooperative game theory that is a stable allocation for players belonging to a coalition that no player has any intensive to deviate from it and form a different coalition. Then, we introduce the cloud cooperative game that allows us to model coalitions and investigate the stability of coalition structures.