A framework for selection of best cloud service provider using ranked voting method

Cloud computing provides computing resources on demand. It is a promising solution for utility computing. Increasing number of cloud service providers having similar functionality poses a problem to cloud users of its selection. To assist the users, for selection of a best service provider as per user's requirement, it is necessary to create a solution. User may provide its QoS expectation and service providers may also express the offers. Experience of existing users may also be beneficial in selection of best cloud service provider. This paper identifies QoS metrics and defines it in such a way that user and provider both can express their expectation and offers respectively into quantified form. A dynamic and flexible framework using Ranked Voting Method is proposed which takes requirement of user as an input and provides a best provider as output.