How the Time-Before-Failure Reacts to Periodic Rejuvenation
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Rebooting is one of the commonly used approaches to recover from undesired crash or performance degradation in software systems. Recently, however, planned and periodic restart or rejuvenation has been proposed as a reliability management tool for avoiding unwanted failure of long-running systems. This paper presents an interesting observation that periodic rejuvenation alters the lifetime distribution of a system in a generic way irrespective of the original distribution.
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