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European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing

ESOCC 2018: Advances in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing pp 91–101Cite as

Decentralized Billing and Subcontracting of Application Services for Cloud Environment Providers

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This paper proposes a decentralized billing and subcontracting system for regional cloud service providers. Based on blockchain technology, this system allows, on the one hand side, to collectively offer services in a distributed environment in a strict or ad-hoc federation and, on the other, to bill each user of such a services individually without a respective central service. In order to do so, it uses a blockchain-based transaction process which uses specialized tokens in order to enable a fair and secure distribution of requested cloud services. It maintains the ability to achieve consensus by validating the respective blockchain (part). In result, the proposed system is not bound to a specific technology, but rather open to any blockchain that allows arbitrary data or modeling of custom transactions.

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  1. Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Vogt-Kölln-Straße 30, 22527, Hamburg, Germany

    Wolf Posdorfer, Julian Kalinowski, Heiko Bornholdt & Winfried Lamersdorf

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Posdorfer, W., Kalinowski, J., Bornholdt, H., Lamersdorf, W. (2020). Decentralized Billing and Subcontracting of Application Services for Cloud Environment Providers. In: Fazio, M., Zimmermann, W. (eds) Advances in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing. ESOCC 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1115. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63161-1_7

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