Blockchain-Based Trust Auction for Dynamic Virtual Machine Provisioning and Allocation in Clouds

Algorithm 4

Payment management.

Input: Applicant A address, actual stored payment, actual stored time, deadline, auction contract AC, CFP address

Output: Complete transaction fee storage and transfer

1 User node (, ,) → TC

2 function TC()

3  ← matchAC(,P)

4 if <&&=then

5 return 

6 else if <&&<

7 return “Insufficient transaction fee”

8 else if>

9 return “ Storage failure”

10 end function

11 functionPay(,)

12→

13 end function