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Cloud Resource Pricing Under Tenant Rationality

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With the recent emergence of the cloud market, cloud resource pricing fundamentally determines cloud revenue, cloud resource allocation and tenant demand dynamics. However, strategic interactions between cloud providers and tenant users are largely unknown. In this chapter, we consider a monopoly cloud market by formulating a competitive market among tenants. A novel Stackelberg game is proposed to tractably analyze such strategic interactions for optimal cloud resource pricing. To empirically evaluate our analyses, we conduct extensive simulations driven by 40 GB of realistic workload traces from Google.

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  1. Yahoo Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA

    Xin Jin

  2. The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

    Yu-Kwong Kwok

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, USA

    Samee U. Khan

  2. School of Information Technologies, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Albert Y. Zomaya

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Jin, X., Kwok, YK. (2015). Cloud Resource Pricing Under Tenant Rationality. In: Khan, S., Zomaya, A. (eds) Handbook on Data Centers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2092-1_19

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