Social Cloud Computing Using Social Network

Abstract

A level of trust can be developed by online relationships in social network which are based on real world relationships. To form a dynamic Social Cloud and to enable users to share heterogeneous resources within the context of a social network we have proposed leveraging of the social relationships. We believe that combining trust relationships with suitable incentive mechanisms could provide much more sustainable resource sharing mechanisms. We have introduced a business application as a means of regulating sharing, due to the unique nature of the Social Cloud. The business application is innovative as it uses both social and economic protocols. In today's world, social community credentials are being used for authentication purpose on various other websites (e.g. Facebook). Here we outline our vision of creating a Social Storage Cloud, looking especially at possible market mechanisms that could be used to create a dynamic Cloud infrastructure in a Social network environment. Keyword : Business Application, Cloud computing, Services computing, Social Cloud, Social networks, Web services.