This article provides a systematic review of cloud pricing in an interdisciplinary approach. It
examines many historical cases of pricing in practice and tracks down multiple roots of …

The emerging edge computing paradigm promises to deliver superior user experience and
enable a wide range of Internet of Things (IoT) applications. In this paper, we propose a new …

As cloud computing is becoming growingly popular, consumers' tasks around the world
arrive in cloud data centers. A private cloud provider aims to achieve profit maximization by …

A growing number of companies deploy their applications in green data centers (GDCs) and
provide services to tasks of global users. Currently, a growing number of GDC providers aim …

Cost, performance, and penalties are the key factors to revenue generation and customer
satisfaction. They have a complex correlation, that gets more complicated when missing a …

Amazon offers spot instances to cloud customers using an auction-like mechanism. These
instances are dynamically priced and offered at a lower price with less guarantee of …

Cloud computing has been a rising trend in the business world. In this study, we consider
two most important pricing schemes offered to sustained customers by major service …

A growing number of organizations deploy multiple heterogeneous applications in
infrastructures of distributed green data centers (DGDCs) to flexibly provide services to users …

The emergence of cloud computing has brought challenges to pricing and resource
allocation in cloud services. In particular, overloading cloud servers caused by peak …

At the same time, the IaaS cloud is tapped with a double-edged sword of over and
underutilization. Where overutilization causes higher costs, poor performance, and low …