A Hierarchical Cloud Pricing System

Author

Zhijie Li ; Ming Li

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Technol., Deakin Univ., Melbourne, VIC, Australia

fYear

2013

fDate

June 28 2013-July 3 2013

Firstpage

403

Lastpage

411

Abstract

Cloud computing is experiencing phenomenal growth and there are now many vendors offering their cloud services. In cloud computing, cloud providers cooperate together to offer their computing resource as a utility and software as a service to customers. The demands and the price of cloud service should be negotiated between providers and users based on the Service Level Agreement (SLA). In order to help cloud providers achieving an agreeable price for their services and maximizing the benefits of both cloud providers and clients, this paper proposes a cloud pricing system consisting of hierarchical system, M/M/c queuing model and pricing model. Simulation results verify the efficiency of our proposed system.

Keywords

cloud computing; contracts; pricing; queueing theory; M/M/c queuing model; SLA; cloud computing; cloud services; computing resource; hierarchical cloud pricing system; hierarchical system; service level agreement; software as a service; Cloud computing; Computational modeling; Hardware; Pricing; Quality of service; Servers; Time factors; M/M/c; cloud service pricing; hierarchical system; utility function;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Services (SERVICES), 2013 IEEE Ninth World Congress on

Conference_Location

Santa Clara, CA

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-5024-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SERVICES.2013.78

Filename

6655728