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What is Billing

Handbook of Research on Grid Technologies and Utility Computing: Concepts for Managing Large-Scale Applications
Billing, in a Grid context, can be defined as the collection and processing of Charging information and the delivery of a payment request to the user or its home organization (adapted from Morariu et al., 2006 and Schnellmann and Redard, 2006). Payments can also regard virtual credits rather than true money.
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Resource Usage Accounting in Grid Computing
Rosario M. Piro (INFN and University of Torino, Italy)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-184-1.ch018
Abstract
Large, geographically distributed and heterogeneous computing infrastructures, such as the Grid, often span multiple organizations and administrative domains. In such infrastructures, resource usage accounting, i.e. keeping track of the resources consumed by single users or entire organizations, is a non-trivial but very important task. This chapter introduces some general aspects and discusses the fundamental requirements that need to be fulfilled in order to guarantee an accurate resource usage accounting. Typical accounting procedures and current practices are described along with other related issues such as the normalization of resource usage information, the standardization of accounting interfaces, billing and charging, resource pricing, market-oriented resource allocation and economic scheduling.
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A Study of Virtual Trial Room
Billing is a process of sending an invoice to customers for goods or services.
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Pricing Quality of Service in Diffserv IP Networks
The process of producing an invoice on the basis of charging data.
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