Verifiable resource accounting for cloud computing services

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 21-26

  Sekar, Vyas ^a   Maniatis, Petros ^a  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Accounting; Cloud computing; Metering; Resource auditing

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL COSTS; BLACK BOXES; CAPITAL EXPENSE; CLOUD PROVIDERS; COMPUTING SERVICES; DYNAMIC NATURE; METERING; RESOURCE AUDITING; RESOURCE CONSUMPTION; VERIFIABILITY;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DEPRECIATION; MULTIPLEXING; PROFITABILITY; SALES;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 80955143538     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2046660.2046666     Document Type: Conference Paper

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