Day-ahead Pricing Model for Smart Cloud using Time Dependent Pricing

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Chetan Chawla 1,* Inderveer Chana 1

1. Thapar University, Patiala, 147004, India

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijcnis.2015.11.02

Received: 16 Feb. 2015 / Revised: 22 May 2015 / Accepted: 16 Jul. 2015 / Published: 8 Oct. 2015

Index Terms

Cloud computing, time dependent pricing, day-ahead pricing, pricing, cloud workload

Abstract

Smart clouds allow every consumer and cloud service provider a two-way communication, thus enabling cloud service provider to generate a time dependent pricing model using a feedback loop. This model charges a consumer more in peak periods and less during off peak periods, which encourages consumers to reschedule their workload to less traffic (off-peak) periods. This helps service providers to practice a versatile pricing technique to increase their profits by covering off-peak demand and minimizing the provider’s cost optimization problem. It also minimizes the execution time in setting these prices by Compromised Cost-Time Based (CCTB) scheduling. Shifting workload is a probabilistic function which tells consumers to shift their workload. This paper presents a model to calculate day-ahead prices. The proposed model dynamically adjusts the rewards or discounts based on consumer behavior in the past, and helps providers to maximize their revenue by shifting the consumers’ workload.

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Chetan Chawla, Inderveer Chana, "Day-ahead Pricing Model for Smart Cloud using Time Dependent Pricing", International Journal of Computer Network and Information Security(IJCNIS), vol.7, no.11, pp.9-19, 2015. DOI:10.5815/ijcnis.2015.11.02

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