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7th IEEE International Symposium on High Assurance Systems Engineering (HASE'02)
Discrete Availability Models to Rejuvenate a Telecommunication Billing Application
Tokyo, Japan
October 23-October 25
ISBN: 0-7695-1769-2
Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University
Kazuki Iwamoto, Hiroshima University
Hiroyuki Okamura, Hiroshima University
Naoto Kaio, Hiroshima Shudo University
Software rejuvenation is a proactive fault management technique that has been extensively studied in the recent literature. In this paper, we focus on an example for a telecommunication billing application considered in Huang et al. (1995) and develop the discrete-time stochastic models to estimate the optimal software rejuvenation schedule. More precisely, two software availability models with rejuvenation are formulated via the discrete semi-Markov processes, and the optimal software rejuvenation schedules which maximize the steady-state availabilities are derived analytically. Further, we develop statistically non-parametric algorithms to estimate the optimal software rejuvenation schedules, provided that the complete sample data of failure times are given. Then, a new statistical device, called discrete total time on test statistics, is introduced. Finally, we examine asymptotic properties for the statistical estimation algorithms proposed in this paper through a simulation experiment.
Index Terms:
software rejuvenation, fault management, availability, discrete-time model, non-parametric estimation
Citation:
Tadashi Dohi, Kazuki Iwamoto, Hiroyuki Okamura, Naoto Kaio, "Discrete Availability Models to Rejuvenate a Telecommunication Billing Application," hase, pp.159, 7th IEEE International Symposium on High Assurance Systems Engineering (HASE'02), 2002
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