Article ID: | iaor20052472 |
Country: | France |
Volume: | 36 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 129 |
End Page Number: | 148 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2002 |
Journal: | RAIRO Operations Research |
Authors: | Dohi T., Okamura Hiroyuki, Miyahara S. |
Keywords: | markov processes, queues: theory |
Long running software systems are known to experience an aging phenomenon called software ageing, one in which the accumulation of errors during the execution of software leads to performance degradation and eventually results in failure. To counteract this phenomenon a proactive fault management approach, called software rejuvenation, is particularly useful. It essentially involves gracefully terminating an application or a system and restarting it in a clean internal state. In this paper, we reconsider the non-homogeneous Markovian models for a single-server type of software system with rejuvenation in Garg