Billing System in Distributed Computing Environment

Abstract

Distributed computing provides user with reliable, flexible and dynamic computing and storage services by organizing many computer resources. It is also popular for high performance and resource sharing. The significance of billing for distributed computing is to correctly measure resource utilization and charge fees for the task on distributed computing. Many companies use distributed computing to build cloud computing platforms. To provide customers with more attractive products and better services, this paper proposes a billing system for distributed cloud computing. This system mainly includes two parts, information collection and billing calculation. In the information collection, the process on each node periodically collects resource utilization of the assigned task and transmits the information to other part. In the billing calculation, this part calculates the cost based on the information collected and stores the records. This system is helpful for services providers to get more reasonable billing and for customer to control cost.