In bilateral accounting of resource consumption both the consumer
and provider independently measure the amount of resources consumed
by the consumer. The problem here is that potential disparities
between the provider's and consumer's accountings, might lead to
conflicts between the two parties that need to be resolved. We argue
that with the proper mechanisms available, most of these conflicts can
be solved online, as opposite to in court resolution; the design of
such mechanisms is still a research topic; to help cover the gap, in
this paper we propose a peer-to-peer protocol
for online dispute resolution over storage consumption.
The protocol is peer-to-peer and takes into
consideration the possible causes (e.g., transmission delays,
unsynchronized metric collectors, etc.) of the disparity between the
provider's and consumer's accountings to make, if possible, the two
results converge. |