A workload-based analysis of software aging, and rejuvenation

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 541-548

  Bao, Yujuan ^a   Sun, Xiaobai ^a   Trivedi, Kishor S ^b  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Degradation model; Hierarchical proactive fault management model; Resource management; Software rejuvenation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; THEOREM PROVING;

DEGRADATION MODEL; HIERARCHICAL PROACTIVE FAULT MANAGEMENT MODEL; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE AGING; SOFTWARE REJUVENATION;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 27844593365     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2005.853442     Document Type: Article

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