Client-side verifiable accounting in infrastructure cloud

Cloud computing is a novel computing paradigm. It is a pay as you go model with on demand resource provisioning. Infrastructure clouds provide many important features like elasticity, scalability, better hardware utilization and most importantly better return on investment (ROI). Resource metering and accounting plays an important role while considering Infrastructure cloud deployment models. So far, all of the metering and accounting solutions for clouds are either purely provider side or based upon third party verification. Even, the available solutions can not be considered as pure pay as you go model as the consumer is accounted for hourly based static resources. In this work, we have implemented a novel resource accounting model which addresses these two problems by providing two novel features. First, Our model implements a client side verifiable accounting model which account resources on the consumer side virtual machine to verify the resource accounting. Second, our model implements pure pay as you go model which does accounting based on CPU program counters with low overhead and proc filesystem for I/O and network accounting.