Title :
Research on Billing Strategy of Cloud Storage
Author :
Haitao Li ; Yuliang Yang ; Bin Zheng
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Commun. Eng., Univ. of Sci. & Technol. Beijing, Beijing, China
Abstract :
Cloud storage has become a active field of research with the development of Internet services. However, the corresponding billing system always cost users more money because of that the billing system is not suitable for the users´ realistic application. To solve this problem, the author studied the existing billing system, analyzed the features of users and cloud storage providers, and proposed a billing strategy for cloud storage platform by the way of quantifying to ensure users only pay for the resources they truly use and meet users´ wish to pay the least money. The author proved the correctness of the billing strategy through game theory.
Keywords :
Web services; cloud computing; game theory; invoicing; storage management; Internet services; billing system; cloud storage platform billing strategy; cloud storage providers; cloud users; game theory; Bandwidth; Cloud computing; Educational institutions; Game theory; Games; Quality of service; Real-time systems; billing service model; billing strategy; discount fee; game theory; usage fee;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia Information Networking and Security (MINES), 2012 Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nanjing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-3093-0
DOI :
10.1109/MINES.2012.172
