An auction framework for DaaS in cloud computing

Abstract

Data as a Service (DaaS) is the next emerging technology in cloud computing research. Small clouds operating as a group may exploit the DaaS efficiently to perform substantial amount of work. In this paper an auction framework is studied when the small clouds are strategic in nature. We present the system model and formal definition of the problem. Several auction DaaS-based mechanisms are proposed and their correctness and computational complexity analysed. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first and realistic attempt to study the DaaS in strategic setting.