Analysis of a two-level software rejuvenation policy

نویسندگان

  • Wei Xie
  • Yiguang Hong
  • Kishor S. Trivedi
چکیده

A two-level rejuvenation policy for software systems with degradation process is studied. Both full restarts and partial restarts are considered in this rejuvenation strategy. A semi-Markov process model is constructed, and based on its closed-form solution we obtain the system availability as a bivariate function. Then, the rejuvenation policy is analyzed to maximize the system availability. Several different scenarios of software rejuvenation strategy are demonstrated by numerical examples. q 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Rel. Eng. & Sys. Safety

دوره 87  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2005