Incorporating License Management in Cloud Simulation Environment

Cloud computing is a highly scalable distributedcomputing platform, and an emerging technology in ITindustry, in which computing resources are offered 'as aservice'. These services are categorized in three servicessoftware-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) andinfrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). We are free to access theseservices with some specific protocols. So these protocols arebind together and are put together into the form of license byservice provider. To access these services we require license, alegal authorization through which a cloud service providerauthorized the user to use its resources on pay-per-basis andresources are provided on demand by the service provider.But due to lack of license management in cloud computing it isa challenge to provide availability of resources to the user.This paper presents an algorithm to provide license to theuser. This paper provides authenticated access to the resourcesthrough remote license server. This license managementarchitecture can be deployed in any distributed environment.