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Pricing policy for a cloud registration service with a novel cloud architecture

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In order to attract more users, cloud vendors always provide free service in many cloud applications. If a Non-VIP (Non-Very Important Person) user is satisfied with the free cloud service, the user may well register as a VIP (Very Important Person) user. In this paper, we focus on the registration process. In order to provide a timely registration service, we propose a novel cloud architecture where free service and registration service are deployed on the same VM (Virtual Machine). We present a multiple-server queueing model with a second optional service for analyzing the stochastic behavior of cloud users. By establishing a two-dimensional Markov chain, we derive the steady-state distribution of the queueing model. We construct an individual benefit function to investigate the Nash equilibrium arrival rate of anonymous users, and propose a new intelligent searching algorithm to obtain the socially optimal arrival rate of anonymous users. For coinciding these two arrival rates of anonymous users, we impose an appropriate registration fee with a pricing policy.

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This work was supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation (Nos. 61872311, 61472342), Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province (No. F2017203141), China and was supported in part by MEXT, Japan.

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  1. School of Information Science and Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, 066004, China

    Shunfu Jin & Haixing Wu

  2. Key Laboratory for Computer Virtual Technology and System Integration of Hebei Province, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, 066004, China

    Shunfu Jin & Haixing Wu

  3. Department of Intelligence and Informatics, Konan University, Kobe, 658-8501, Japan

    Wuyi Yue

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Jin, S., Wu, H. & Yue, W. Pricing policy for a cloud registration service with a novel cloud architecture. Cluster Comput 22, 271–283 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-018-2854-z

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