DYNAMIC PRICING MODEL FOR A COULD CACHE ENVIRONMENT

Seema Rani Roll Number: 11-Mtcse-16 Modified from Mark Baker

Topics of Discussion
1. Problem statement
2. Objective 3. Data Source, Collection, Organization 4. 5. 6.

7.
8. 9. 10.

and Analysis Research Methodology DFD of Dynamic pricing model Introduction Motivation Review of Literature Improvement over Existing WorkConclusion Reference

Problem statement

The Cloud based environment is an automatic server

based application to settle the resource to specific user or application of the system. The Cloud computing is acts as a virtualization of resources that maintains and manages itself. It is not required to buy infrastructure to run a service. The Cloud based services is a platform for consumer to buy the resources and storage on rent basis, and user/service can use unlimited storage and resources as per the requirement.

Problem statement
It is requiring to pay as you go basis. The Cloud based

services are sold in package system with anytime resource update. The overall cost paid by the client with respect to the usage of service is very high. Due to high cost of some services/software, the user could not get the services as the costing is very high, as most of them are priced yearly or monthly.

Data Source, Collection & analysis

Consumption-based pricing model
Subscription-based pricing Advertising-based pricing Market-based pricing

Research Methodology
In this paper, I will present a new dynamic pricing

algorithm to get the dynamic pricing based on the usage with a local or web based cloud environment. The Model is based on resource used , I can make some unit resource pricing schema that can be in the costing of the resource used and will be based on our dynamic pricing model for a cloud cache environment architectural.

DFD of Dynamic pricing model

Flowchart

Objective
The main objective of the research is to minimize the

costing paid by the user in cloud based application platform. I will generate an algorithm to calculate the resources and services dynamically in a cloud based environment and optimized it give the correct result. The dynamically calculated resource is then multiplied by the unit prices of the resource and application, which is maintain by the cloud service provider. In the current scenario the user is very cost concern with the quality of services, I will manage the services and there prices on usage of resources. The algorithm written is supposed to use as Dynamic pricing algorithm.

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Introduction

1. An emerging trend for delivering computing services over the internet is referred as cloud computing, which acts as a virtualization of resources that maintains and manages itself.

2. There is no need to buy an infrastructure to run a service; instead it gives the option for pay as-you-go need basis.
3. It is a platform where consumer can buy computing and storage power on a rental basis.

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Introduction
4. It provides unlimited infrastructure to store and execute customer data and program.

5. The benefits of cloud computing are:

minimized capital expenditure, location and device independence, utilization and efficiency improvement, very high scalability, high computing power.

6. Cloud suppliers buy and sell their services on cloud cache for capital. The building and maintenance cost of used resources is pay per usage

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Motivation
Over the past decades, caching has become the key

technology in bridging the performance gap across memory hierarchies via temporal or spatial localities; in particular, the effect is prominent in disk storage systems. Currently, the effective use of cache for I/O-intensive applications in the cloud is limited for both architectural and practical reasons.
Due to essentially the shared nature of some resources

like disks, the virtualization overhead with these resources is not negligible and it further worsens the disk I/O performance.

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Motivation
Thus, low disk I/O performance is one of the major

challenges encountered by most infrastructure services as in Amazons relational database service, which provisions virtual servers with database servers. At present, the performance issue of I/O intensive applications is mainly dealt with by using high performance (HP) servers with large amount of memory, leaving it as the users responsibility.

The On-demand service must use an dynamic pricing

model to minimize the cost of resources as services and to implement it, a suitable dynamic pricing model is required.

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Review of Literature
Pricing practices in IT markets have shifted over the last

two decades. Traditionally, CPU cycles, data storage and software applications have been sold as products, not services.
Clients own the facilities after a one-time payment but

have to pay for maintenance and upgrades. Most cloud services vendors have opted for pay-as-you-go pricing schemes. Clients are no longer bound to ownership and their payments are closely linked to real usage.

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Review of Literature
The research shows that the existing pricing practice with complicated tariffs slow client adoption. Realizing that the accounting is very complex and the cost is unpredictable due to uncertainty about their usage patterns, customers slow down adoption of cloud computing services (Perry 2010). In order to tackle the complexity of the pricing of cloud services and its negative effects on adoption, a deeper understanding of the pricing mechanisms in the cloud services market is needed.

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Review of Literature
Durkee (2010) investigated factors that affect pricing

based on features characterizing cloud services, and argued that todays price-focused cloud services market presents challenges for clients to choose appropriate services. Marston et al. (2011) reviewed several key cloud services vendors and identified key opportunities and challenges for the cloud industry.

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Review of Literature
The recommendations for IS researchers include the

following: First, optimal pricing strategy needs to be further studied in conjunction with capacity investment decisions and QoS guarantees; and Second, optimal pricing strategies should be examined for different cloud services market structures. Although the previous works have correctly recognized both the complexity and importance of pricing strategy for cloud services vendors, none has conducted careful investigations of cloud pricing. Central observation from this review is that the current cloud pricing practice tends to be vendor-centric. Factors linked to service vendors interests are flexible, such as usage and reservations that directly affect the vendors

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Review of Literature
Based on the review, I derived three key

recommendations. First, quantity discounts are missing in current cloud pricing practice and should be considered as a pricing factor for all categories of cloud services. Quantity discounts have been suggested as one of the most effective ways for vendors to segment clients, gain market power and obtain higher profits (Goldman et al. 1984; Monahan 1984). They also have been shown to be optimal for IT service vendors when there is no transaction cost (Maskin and Riley 1984).

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Review of Literature
Second, the initial setup charge is missing and should be

indicated in pricing. Third, penalty settings or service guarantee terms that guarantee promised quality level should be flexible enough and made negotiable to satisfy different types of clients. As shown in the market survey, a uniform type of service quality guarantee, including uptime and penalty terms, is set for all offerings from the same vendor. Such a practice ignores the natural differences between services, and is not appropriate. For example, mission-critical enterprise applications are costly for service downtime (Hiles 2005). So it is necessary to make those settings configurable.

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Literature survey
Fixed fee pricing and usage-based pricing have been

studied extensively. An interesting question is which pricing method is better. Maskin and Riley (1984) concluded that usage-based pricing is optimal for information goods with negligible marginal production costs. Sundarajan (2004) suggested that fixed-fee pricing, together with usage-based pricing, always outperforms pure usage-based pricing. Some other studies (Fishburn 2000; Sridhar et al. 2009) have found that fixed-fee pricing can outperform usage-based pricing in a competitive setting where the transaction cost plays an important role.

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Improvement over Existing Work

In the existing work, the pricing model/package is

designed with the raw prices of the resources with fix resource based package whereas in this present work, the work is defined for the dynamic pricing scheme. For the proposed model to be efficient, a dynamic algorithm is to perform pre-calculation of resources used and required. The presented work will identify the all possible combination for the resources used and required resources are analyzed and pricing implemented , which will be the cheapest of the among existing pricing model.

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Conclusion
This work proposes a dynamic pricing scheme that

maximizes the cloud profit and also guarantees user satisfaction that adapts to demand changes. It also provides an dynamic pricing algorithm to calculate the pricing dynamically. The dynamic pricing scheme will be designed and implemented to be cost effective, the user will get paid to only what the resources they uses.

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Reference
Saravanan. K and sri vigna hema. V, dynamic pricing model for a cloud

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Reference
Huang jianhui, madan, robert kauffman,a pricing model for

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