• DocumentCode
    2972322
  • Title

    Cloud broker-based refundable service on multitenant environment

  • Author

    Hossain, Ashraf Anwer ; Young-Rok Shin ; Seung-Jin Lee ; Cheol-Su Lim ; Eui-Nam Huh

  • Author_Institution
    Comput. Eng., Kyung Hee Univ., Yongin, South Korea
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    13-14 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    5
  • Abstract
    Cloud Computing is a dominating computing paradigm with its significant impact on the distribution of computing resources and business attribution. However, due to the lack of fairness in pricing and SLAs during the service in cloud computing, customers are dissatisfied with the existing pricing model of current situation, and there have an immense chance to lose those dissatisfied customers. Therefore, we are going provide a solution that can preserve customers´ appreciation by refundable service. In this paper, we proposed a unique technique that can boost up customer satisfaction and diminish cloud service provider anxiety for continuing their business. We applied a third party cloud broker that can handle all of the business procedure instead of cloud service provider. Our method offers refunding in case of unutilized resource as well service quality degradation that is service level agreement (SLA) violation. The experiment results demonstrate different refund amount for cloud resource consumers´ considering with several attribute.
  • Keywords
    cloud computing; contracts; customer satisfaction; pricing; SLA; cloud broker-based refundable service; cloud computing; cloud service provider; customer satisfaction; multitenant environment; pricing model; service level agreement; service quality degradation; third party cloud broker; Cloud computing; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Computers; Pricing; Quality of service; Cloud Broker; Pricing; Refunding; Service Level Agreement (SLA);
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    ICT for Smart Society (ICISS), 2013 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Jakarta
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-0143-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICTSS.2013.6588088
  • Filename
    6588088