A study of pricing for cloud resources

Performance Evaluation Review

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 3-12

  Xu, Hong ^a   Li, Baochun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capacity right sizing; Cloud computing; Economics; Performance guarantees; Pricing; Throttling

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY RIGHT-SIZING; PERFORMANCE GUARANTEES; POSITION PAPERS; PRICE DISCRIMINATION; RECENT RESEARCHES; TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT; THROTTLING; TRACE DRIVEN SIMULATION;

CLOUD COMPUTING; COSTS;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 84883473905     PISSN: 01635999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2479942.2479944     Document Type: Article

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