NDLI: A Case for Consumercentric Resource Accounting Models

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Mihoob, A. Molina-Jimenez, C. Shrivastava, S.
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	A pay–per–use cloud service should be made available to consumers with an unambiguous resource accounting model that precisely describes all the factors that are taken into account in calculating resource consumption charges. The paper proposes the notion of consumer–centric resource accounting model such that consumers can programmatically compute their consumption charges of a remotely used service. In particular, the notion of strongly consumer–centric accounting model is proposed that requires that all the data needed for calculating billing charges can be collected independently by the consumer (or a trusted third party, TTP); in effect, this means that a consumer (or a TTP) should be in a position to run their own measurement service. Strongly consumer–centric accounting models have the desirable property of openness and transparency, since service users are in a position to verify the charges billed to them. To illustrate the ideas, the accounting model of a given cloud infrastructure service (simple storage service, S3 from Amazon) is evaluated. The exercise reveals some shortcomings which can be fixed as indicated in this paper to make Amazon’s model strongly consumer–centric. Service providers can learn from this evaluation study to re-examine their accounting models and perform any amendments
Starting Page	506
Ending Page	512
File Size	299206
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424482078
DOI	10.1109/CLOUD.2010.44
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-07-05
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Cloud computing Clouds Computational modeling Resource accounting Bandwidth Billing Position measurement Data models Frequency measurement Simple object access protocol
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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