Quantifying Resiliency of Virtualized System with Software Rejuvenation

Hiroyuki OKAMURA  Jungang GUAN  Chao LUO  Tadashi DOHI  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E98-A   No.10   pp.2051-2059
Publication Date: 2015/10/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1587/transfun.E98.A.2051
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Recent Developments on Reliability, Maintainability and Dependability)
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Keyword: 
virtualized system,  software rejuvenation,  system resiliency,  continuous-time Markov chain,  PH approximation,  

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Summary: 
This paper considers how to evaluate the resiliency for virtualized system with software rejuvenation. The software rejuvenation is a proactive technique to prevent the failure caused by aging phenomenon such as resource exhaustion. In particular, according to Gohsh et al. (2010), we compute a quantitative criterion to evaluate resiliency of system by using continuous-time Markov chains (CTMC). In addition, in order to convert general state-based models to CTMCs, we employ PH (phase-type) expansion technique. In numerical examples, we investigate the resiliency of virtualized system with software rejuvenation under two different rejuvenation policies.