Reliability analysis based on jump diffusion models for an open source cloud computing

• Published in: 2012 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management pp. 752 - 756
• Main Authors: Tamura, Yoshinobu, Miyahara, Hirona, Yamada, Shigeru
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.12.2012
• Subjects: Cloud computing; Computational modeling; jump diffusion modeling; Mathematical model; open source software; reliability analysis; Software reliability; Stochastic processes
• ISSN: 2157-3611
• DOI: 10.1109/IEEM.2012.6837840

A cloud computing is also attracting attention as a network service to share the computing resources such as networks, servers, storage, applications, and services. We focus on a cloud computing environment by using open source software such as OpenStack and Eucalyptus because of the unification management of data, and low cost. In this paper, we propose a new approach to software reliability assessment based on a jump diffusion model based on the stochastic differential equations in order to consider the interesting aspect of the numbers of components and users. Also, actual software fault-count data are analyzed in order to show numerical examples of software reliability assessment. Moreover, this paper shows that the proposed method of reliability analysis can assist quality improvement for the cloud computing.