Motivated by complementing the ubiquitous wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and powerful cloud computing (CC), a lot of attention from both industry and academia has been drawn to Sensor-Cloud (SC). However, SC pricing is barely investigated. Towards pricing for SC, this paper 1) introduces five SC Pricing Models (SCPMs) first. Specifically, to charge a SC user, each SCPM considers one of the following factors respectively: i) the lease period of the SC user; ii) the required working time of SC; iii) the SC resources utilized by the SC user; iv) the volume of sensory data obtained by the SC user; v) the SC path that transmits sensory data from the WSN to the SC user. Further, this paper 2) performs analysis to discuss and exhibit the characteristics of the proposed SCPMs. With that, this paper 3) presents the case studies regarding the application of SCPMs. Eventually, this paper 4) conducts a review about the user behavior study. This paper aims to serve as a very favorable guidance for future research about pricing in SC.

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走向传感器云的定价

受无处不在的无线传感器网络 (WSN) 和强大的云计算 (CC) 的推动，传感器云 (SC) 已吸引了工业界和学术界的大量关注。然而，SC 定价几乎没有被调查。针对 SC 的定价，本文 1) 首先介绍了五种 SC 定价模型 (SCPM)。具体地，每个 SCPM 对 SC 用户收费，分别考虑以下因素之一： i) SC 用户的租期；ii) SC所需的工作时间；iii) SC用户使用的SC资源；iv) SC用户获得的感官数据量；v) 将传感数据从 WSN 传输到 SC 用户的 SC 路径。此外，本文 2) 进行分析以讨论和展示所提出的 SCPM 的特征。接着就，随即，本文 3) 介绍了关于 SCPM 应用的案例研究。最后，本文 4) 对用户行为研究进行了回顾。本文旨在为未来关于 SC 定价的研究提供非常有利的指导。