Cloud pricing models: Taxonomy, survey, and interdisciplinary challenges

C Wu, R Buyya, K Ramamohanarao - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2019 - dl.acm.org
This article provides a systematic review of cloud pricing in an interdisciplinary approach. It
examines many historical cases of pricing in practice and tracks down multiple roots of …

Price-based resource allocation for edge computing: A market equilibrium approach

DT Nguyen, LB Le, V Bhargava - IEEE Transactions on Cloud …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emerging edge computing paradigm promises to deliver superior user experience and
enable a wide range of Internet of Things (IoT) applications. In this paper, we propose a new …

Temporal task scheduling with constrained service delay for profit maximization in hybrid clouds

H Yuan, J Bi, W Tan, BH Li - IEEE Transactions on Automation …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As cloud computing is becoming growingly popular, consumers' tasks around the world
arrive in cloud data centers. A private cloud provider aims to achieve profit maximization by …

Time-aware multi-application task scheduling with guaranteed delay constraints in green data center

H Yuan, J Bi, MC Zhou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A growing number of companies deploy their applications in green data centers (GDCs) and
provide services to tasks of global users. Currently, a growing number of GDC providers aim …

Performance‐based service‐level agreement in cloud computing to optimise penalties and revenue

A Badshah, A Ghani, S Shamshirband… - IET …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Cost, performance, and penalties are the key factors to revenue generation and customer
satisfaction. They have a complex correlation, that gets more complicated when missing a …

A survey on spot pricing in cloud computing

D Kumar, G Baranwal, Z Raza, DP Vidyarthi - Journal of Network and …, 2018 - Springer
Amazon offers spot instances to cloud customers using an auction-like mechanism. These
instances are dynamically priced and offered at a lower price with less guarantee of …

Pricing schemes in cloud computing: Utilization‐based vs. reservation‐based

S Chen, H Lee, K Moinzadeh - Production and Operations …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Cloud computing has been a rising trend in the business world. In this study, we consider
two most important pricing schemes offered to sustained customers by major service …

Spatiotemporal task scheduling for heterogeneous delay-tolerant applications in distributed green data centers

H Yuan, J Bi, MC Zhou - IEEE Transactions on Automation …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A growing number of organizations deploy multiple heterogeneous applications in
infrastructures of distributed green data centers (DGDCs) to flexibly provide services to users …

Optimal strategies on pricing and resource allocation for cloud services with service guarantees

F Chen, A Lu, H Wu, R Dou, X Wang - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
The emergence of cloud computing has brought challenges to pricing and resource
allocation in cloud services. In particular, overloading cloud servers caused by peak …

Orchestrating model to improve utilization of IaaS environment for sustainable revenue

A Badshah, A Ghani, IF Siddiqui, A Daud… - Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
At the same time, the IaaS cloud is tapped with a double-edged sword of over and
underutilization. Where overutilization causes higher costs, poor performance, and low …