An Overview of Mechanisms for Resource Pricing in a Single Cloud Provider and Federated Cloud Environment

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10.2991/978-94-6463-740-3_12How to use a DOI?

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Cloud Federation; Federation Level Agreement; Pricing; Revenue Sharing

Abstract

The collaboration of multiple Cloud Providers (CPs) with the intent to share resources with each other and enhance resource availability to customers is termed as Cloud Federation. The collaboration of participating CPs is based on mutual agreements among them with all the terms and conditions of association mentioned in the form of a Federation Level Agreement (FLA). A proper approach for pricing of resources is a pre-requisite in such an environment. This is mainly because genuine bills for users and lucrative revenue for CPs can be generated only when a suitable approach to price the resources is available. Thus, literature review is performed in this paper to identify an appropriate mechanism for impartial pricing of resources contributed by various CPs in a Federation of Clouds. The review provides information about the existing mechanisms of resource pricing, revenue sharing and their limitations. It is observed from the review that none of the pricing mechanisms proposed in the literature ensures fair bills for users and genuine revenue share for all the collaborating CPs. This calls for the requirement to propose appropriate mechanisms to charge users that can address the problems associated with current mechanisms.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Sameera Dhuria
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/06/25
TI  - An Overview of Mechanisms for Resource Pricing in a Single Cloud Provider and Federated Cloud Environment
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (ICDLAIR 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 127
EP  - 137
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-740-3_12
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-740-3_12
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