Flexible Charging for Multi-provider Composed Services using a Federated, Two-phase Rating Process

Jennings, Brendan; Malone, Paul

doi:10.1109/noms.2006.1687534

Cited by 19 publications

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“…Jennings and Malone [23] propose a framework to charge for composite services that are composed of services from multiple business players. A centralized workflow manager performs the accounting and billing process.…”

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A Synchronization Mechanism for Cloud Accounting Systems

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Hernández-Rodríguez

et al. 2014

2014 International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing

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In current cloud systems, services run across multiple geographically distributed clusters and continuously generate resource usage data due to constant resource consumption. In the context of accounting, resource usage data generated from each cluster during service runtime must be collected and aggregated into a single cloud-wide record so that a single bill can be created.This paper presents a mechanism to synchronize accounting records among distributed accounting system peers. Run time resource usage generated from different clusters is synchronized to maintain a single cloud-wide view of the data so that a single bill can be created. We provide a set of accounting system requirements and an evaluation which verifies that the solution fulfills these requirements. Experimental results show that our solution produces less overhead in terms of data exchange and scales near-linearly with the size of clusters with no single point of failure.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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A Synchronization Mechanism for Cloud Accounting Systems

Lakew

Hernández-Rodríguez

et al. 2014

2014 International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing

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“…Various researchers have investigated prepaid accounting frameworks and protocols [13] [14] [15] [16]. While these works provide flexible solutions for charging for service usage, their accounting systems are centralized.…”

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A Tree-Based Protocol for Enforcing Quotas in Clouds

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Hernández-Rodríguez

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2014 IEEE World Congress on Services

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Abstract-Services are increasingly being hosted on cloud nodes to enhance their performance and increase their availability. The virtually unlimited availability of cloud resources enables service owners to consume resources without quantitative restrictions, paying only for what they use. To avoid cost overruns, resource consumption must be controlled and capped when necessary. We present a distributed tree-based protocol for managing quotas in clouds that minimizes communication overheads and reduces the time required to determine whether a quota has been exhausted. Experimental evaluation shows that our protocol reduces communication costs by 42% relative to a distributed baseline solution and is up to 15 times faster.

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“…Jennings and Malone specify a two‐phase rating process (i.e. a service price determination process) for composed services.…”

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An overview of online charging in 3GPP networks: new ways of utilizing user, network, and service‐related information

Grgic

Matijašević

2012

Int J Network Mgmt

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SUMMARY Modern charging systems routinely apply the user, network, and service‐related information while performing online charging. Compared, however, to all the information available to and used in managing the network as a whole, the charging systems only use a limited subset. This work is motivated by the challenge to identify which information is used, and how it is used in online charging‐related processes, and also to explore whether it could be utilized ‘better’ or ‘smarter’ to improve future online charging systems functionality. We do not attempt to predict which information will be utilized in such systems and for what purpose, but instead summarize the open issues in view of the emerging trend of exploiting the user, network and service‐related information in service provisioning. We focus on the most recent 3GPP standards and relevant research papers, and propose three key aspects of online charging, with respect to information utilization: (a) signaling aspect, (b) inter‐domain aspect, and (c) service‐ and component‐based aspect. We present a state‐of‐the‐art review by grouping the works found in the literature based on the aspects they are associated with, and compare them based on the proposed comparison criteria. The discussion presented at the end of the paper indicates three common open issues, namely: (1) lack of common charging information specification and structure; (2) lack of mechanisms for information sharing among stakeholders in the service delivery process; and (3) lack of a common framework for sharing information while protecting user privacy. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Flexible Charging for Multi-provider Composed Services using a Federated, Two-phase Rating Process

Cited by 19 publications

References 4 publications

A Synchronization Mechanism for Cloud Accounting Systems

A Synchronization Mechanism for Cloud Accounting Systems

A Tree-Based Protocol for Enforcing Quotas in Clouds

An overview of online charging in 3GPP networks: new ways of utilizing user, network, and service‐related information

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