Abstract: “Due to increase in the number of cloud users (CUs), the number of cloud service providers (CSPs) have also been increased. Among the number of available CSPs, the selection of a suitable CSP for a CU has become a complicated issue. In literature, the reputation of CSPs is used to evaluate their suitability. Since, cloud has a strong business perspective, suitability of CU for a CSP is equally important. The mutual suitability of CSPs and CUs can give new dimensions to service orchestration in cloud. Therefore, this paper proposes a mutual reputation-based service mapping framework for the cloud environment. The mutual reputation of both the CSPs and CUs is used during the service mapping. The reputation of CSPs and CUs is evaluated based on their quality of service (QoS) attributes and for evaluating the reputation of CUs the parameters are defined. Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is used to evaluate the reputation of CSPs and CUs. The mutual reputation-based mapping is depicted thr”

Keywords: service mapping, quality of service, reputation, ranking, cloud computing