Dynamics of service selection and provider pricing game in heterogeneous cloud market

Cuong T. Do, Nguyen Hoang Tran, Eui-Nam Huh, Choong Seon Hong, Dusit Niyato, Zhu Han

Abstract: Highlights•A game theoretical model in a Cloud Service Provider market in which there are two stages of competition.•In stage I: formulate the competition among CSPs for selling service opportunities as a noncooperative game.•In stage II, a Wardrop equilibrium is achievable by cloud users in the service selection game.