Discrete availability models to rejuvenate a telecommunication billing application
Discrete availability models to rejuvenate a telecommunication billing application
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离散可用性模型使电信计费应用程序焕发活力
DOI:
10.1109/hase.2002.1173117
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发表时间:
2002
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N. Kaio
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作者:
T. Dohi;K. Iwamoto;H. Okamura;N. Kaio
Software rejuvenation is a proactive fault management technique that has been extensively studied in the recent literature. We focus on an example for a telecommunication billing application considered in Huang et al. (1995) and develop the discrete-time stochastic models to estimate the optimal software rejuvenation schedule. More precisely, two software availability models with rejuvenation are formulated via the discrete semi-Markov processes, and the optimal software rejuvenation schedules which maximize the steady-state availabilities are derived analytically. Further, we develop statistically nonparametric algorithms to estimate the optimal software rejuvenation schedules, provided that the complete sample data of failure times are given. Then, a new statistical device, called discrete total time on test statistics, is introduced. Finally, we examine asymptotic properties for the statistical estimation algorithms proposed in this paper through a simulation experiment.