Monitoring the Health Condition of a Ubiquitous System: Rejuvenation vs. Recovery

摘要

Software rejuvenation is a preventive and proactive solution that is particularly useful for counteracting the phenomenon of software aging. In this article, we consider a periodic software rejuvenation model based on the steady-state system availability in discrete operational circumstance. More precisely, we treat a telecommunication billing application as a simple ubiquitous application, and describe its stochastic behavior by applying the discrete renewal reward process. The main objective is the determination of the optimal frequency to rejuvenate the ubiquitous application, maximizing the steady-state system availability. Also, we develop a statistically non-parametric algorithm to estimate the optimal rejuvenation schedule with the discrete total time on test concept.