Cloud Service Billing and Service Level Agreement Monitoring based on Blockchain
Cloud Service Billing and Service Level Agreement Monitoring based on Blockchain
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基于区块链的云服务计费和服务水平协议监控
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2018
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通讯作者：
Markus Nüttgens
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Nils Neidhardt;Carsten Köhler;Markus Nüttgens
在云计算中，客户将部分甚至完整的IT基础设施提供给云服务提供商。这通常会导致失去控制：由于缺乏透明度，帐单流程的验证以及提供商对服务水平协议（sla）的遵守可能难以为客户跟踪-这可能会降低客户对服务提供商的信任。因此，作为解决方案，我们提出了一个基于区块链和智能合约的概念，它以分散、透明的方式实现SLA监控和云计费服务，从而减少了客户对提供商的信任需求。因此，在客户、提供商以及外部SLA监控服务之间交换令牌，以便及时记录客户和提供商的操作。
In cloud computing, a customer sources parts or even his complete IT infrastructure out to a cloud service provider. This often results in a loss of control: Due to a lack of transparency, the verification of the billing process, as well as the provider’s adherence to service level agreements (SLAs) can be difficult to track for the customer – which can diminish his trust in the service provider. As a solution therefore we propose a blockchainand smart contract based concept, which implements the SLA monitoring-, as well as cloud billing services in a decentralized, transparent manner, thus reducing the need for the customer’s trust in the provider. Hereby, tokens are exchanged between the customer, the provider, as well as external SLA monitoring services in order to timely document customerand provider actions.