Towards optimized fine-grained pricing of IaaS cloud platform

IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 436-448

  Jin, Hai ^a   Wang, Xinhou ^a   Wu, Song ^a   Di, Sheng ^b   Shi, Xuanhua ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; IaaS; Pricing scheme; Utility function

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; COST REDUCTION; COSTS; ECONOMICS; SALES;

COARSE-GRAINED; IAAS; MAINTENANCE OVERHEAD; NEW APPROACHES; PRICING SCHEME; RESOURCE PROVIDERS; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS; UTILITY FUNCTIONS;

INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE (IAAS);

EID: 84951990149     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21687161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCC.2014.2344680     Document Type: Article

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