Reserved or on-demand instances? A revenue maximization model for cloud providers

Proceedings - 2011 IEEE 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing, CLOUD 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 428-435

  Mazzucco, Michele ^a,b   Dumas, Marlon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b Software Technology and Applications Competence Centre STACC   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEST-EFFORT; CLOUD PROVIDERS; ENERGY COST; NET REVENUE; QUEUING MODELS; REVENUE FUNCTION; REVENUE MAXIMIZATION; SERVER FARMS; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS;

CLOUD COMPUTING; COMMERCE; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; LAKES;

SALES;

EID: 80053141110     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLOUD.2011.25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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