Secure resource metering and accounting with hash chain in cloud storage

Cloud storage is a pay-per-use service of which the billing plan is typically based on users' resource consump-tion metered by server side. Therefore, the trustworthiness between payer and service provider becomes a key factor for the business, and triggers security concerns. On the one hand, s...

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Main Authors: Mei LIU, Ge FU, Yi-xi LI, Hong ZHANG, Xin-ran LIU, Cui-lan DU
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Published: Editorial Department of Journal on Communications 2013-08-01
Series:Tongxin xuebao
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Online Access:http://www.joconline.com.cn/zh/article/doi/10.3969/j.issn.1000-436x.2013.z1.033/
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author Mei LIU
Ge FU
Yi-xi LI
Hong ZHANG
Xin-ran LIU
Cui-lan DU
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Yi-xi LI
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description Cloud storage is a pay-per-use service of which the billing plan is typically based on users' resource consump-tion metered by server side. Therefore, the trustworthiness between payer and service provider becomes a key factor for the business, and triggers security concerns. On the one hand, service providers or insiders may inflate the amount of re-source consumed to get more service charge. On the other hand, payers may deny the resource consumption to pay less. Thus, a resource metering and accounting scheme based on hash chain was proposed. It generated verifiable proof for different types of resources. For most resources, proof can be generated based on total amount of resource incurred. How-ever, similar scheme cannot be applied to storage space usage, since it fluctuates and the billing relies on not only the utilized storage space but also the storage duration. The proposed storage usage metering scheme considers time factor together with storage space, and generates proof according to the diverse storage billing plans. It improves previous schemes, and achieves the goal of verifiable metering and accounting.
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spelling doaj-art-f38516680f0345d2b57bfa92212d7eb12025-01-14T06:42:02ZzhoEditorial Department of Journal on CommunicationsTongxin xuebao1000-436X2013-08-013424625559677550Secure resource metering and accounting with hash chain in cloud storageMei LIUGe FUYi-xi LIHong ZHANGXin-ran LIUCui-lan DUCloud storage is a pay-per-use service of which the billing plan is typically based on users' resource consump-tion metered by server side. Therefore, the trustworthiness between payer and service provider becomes a key factor for the business, and triggers security concerns. On the one hand, service providers or insiders may inflate the amount of re-source consumed to get more service charge. On the other hand, payers may deny the resource consumption to pay less. Thus, a resource metering and accounting scheme based on hash chain was proposed. It generated verifiable proof for different types of resources. For most resources, proof can be generated based on total amount of resource incurred. How-ever, similar scheme cannot be applied to storage space usage, since it fluctuates and the billing relies on not only the utilized storage space but also the storage duration. The proposed storage usage metering scheme considers time factor together with storage space, and generates proof according to the diverse storage billing plans. It improves previous schemes, and achieves the goal of verifiable metering and accounting.http://www.joconline.com.cn/zh/article/doi/10.3969/j.issn.1000-436x.2013.z1.033/cloud storageresource meteringhash chain
spellingShingle Mei LIU
Ge FU
Yi-xi LI
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Xin-ran LIU
Cui-lan DU
Secure resource metering and accounting with hash chain in cloud storage
Tongxin xuebao
cloud storage
resource metering
hash chain
title Secure resource metering and accounting with hash chain in cloud storage
title_full Secure resource metering and accounting with hash chain in cloud storage
title_fullStr Secure resource metering and accounting with hash chain in cloud storage
title_full_unstemmed Secure resource metering and accounting with hash chain in cloud storage
title_short Secure resource metering and accounting with hash chain in cloud storage
title_sort secure resource metering and accounting with hash chain in cloud storage
topic cloud storage
resource metering
hash chain
url http://www.joconline.com.cn/zh/article/doi/10.3969/j.issn.1000-436x.2013.z1.033/
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