Title
An Optimal and Iterative Pricing Model for Multiclass IaaS Cloud Services.
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate optimal pricing models for profit maximization from the perspective of cloud providers in the presence of multiple classes of IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) services. We propose an iterative model in which a cloud provider iteratively posts updated prices for the multiple classes of IaaS instances to users until reaching convergence that maximizes its profit. During this process, any interested user can determine the optimal class of IaaS instances and the optimal quantity to buy according to its own private utility function. In particular, we propose two algorithms to implement the iterative pricing process: a Genetic based near-optimal algorithm, and a hill climbing based cost-effective algorithm. The experimental results show that our iterative pricing algorithms can achieve advanced profitability in pricing multiclass IaaS instances in cloud environments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/978-3-319-46295-0_39
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Pricing,IaaS,Cloud computing,Profit maximization
Convergence (routing),Data mining,Hill climbing,Mathematical optimization,Iterative and incremental development,Computer science,Simulation,Cloud provider,Profitability index,Profit maximization,Cloud computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9936
0302-9743
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.46
6
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shuo Zhang150.81
Li Pan23918.95
Shijun Liu312033.80
Lei Wu47317.47
Li-zhen Cui528271.41
Dong Yuan676848.06