Distributed Object Middleware to Support Dependable Information Sharing between Organisations
DSN '02 Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
On the Monitoring of Contractual Service Level Agreements
WEC '04 Proceedings of the First IEEE International Workshop on Electronic Contracting
The monitorability of service-level agreements for application-service provision
WOSP '07 Proceedings of the 6th international workshop on Software and performance
Strong accountability for network storage
ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)
Building Trust in Storage Outsourcing: Secure Accounting of Utility Storage
SRDS '07 Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
Web Service Hosting and Revenue Maximization
ECOWS '07 Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Web Services
Accounting of Storage Resources in gLite Based Infrastructures
WETICE '07 Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Fileteller: paying and getting paid for file storage
FC'02 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Financial cryptography
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The services offered by Internet Data Centers involve the provision of storage, bandwidth and computational resources. A common business model is to charge consumers on a pay-per-use basis where they periodically pay for the resources they have consumed (as opposed to a fixed charge for service provision). The pay-per-use model raises the question of how to measure resource consumption. Currently, a widely used accounting mechanism is provider-side accounting where the provider unilaterally measures the consumer's resource consumption and presents the latter with a bill. A serious limitation of this approach is that it does not offer the consumer sufficient means of performing reasonableness checks to verify that the provider is not accidentally or maliciously overcharging. To address the problem the paper develops bilateral accounting models where both consumer and provider independently measure resource consumption, verify the equity of the accounting process and try to resolve potential conflicts emerging from the independently produced results. The paper discusses the technical issues involved in bilateral accounting.