Charge Flow - Workflow Based Chargeback Processing

The focus of this paper will present Charge Flow which is a workflow based approach to manage the issue of chargeback within a Cloud environment. This work has been driven by the need for both private and public cloud operators to manage their virtualized infrastructures to ensure proper accountability so that resource usage is metered, charged and billed to the respective user of the virtualized resource. Charge Flow essentially automates and orchestrates the process of chargeback and charge view reducing the administrative overhead and increasing utilization of underlying resources.