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

fYear

2012

fDate

2-4 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

624

Lastpage

627

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Information Networking and Security (MINES), 2012 Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-3093-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MINES.2012.172

Filename

6405777