Resource Pool Oriented Trust Management for Cloud Infrastructure

IaaS encourages pooled resource management model, which provides transparency on the management and provision of IT resources. The transparency, hiding physical details of the underlying resources, makes it difficult for cloud users/services to identify trusted resources for service deployment, resulting in potential risks of deploying critical services on untrusted resources. This paper proposes a pool oriented trust management mechanism for cloud infrastructures, allowing the construction and identification of trusted clusters consisted of trusted resources, with strict membership management to accept only trusted physical resources. Resources of a trusted cluster expose identical trust properties/attributes to cloud users, enabling users to verify the trust on the resources without the need of identifying individual physical resource. Hence, service deployment and migration can be augmented with the above trust verification to ensure that services are always deployed on trusted resources.