Towards testing the software aging behavior of hypervisor hypercall interfaces. Abstract software rejuvenation has been addressed in hundreds of papers since it was proposedin 1995 by huang et al. Software aging and rejuvenation trivedi major reference. Software aging and rejuvenation applied to anomaly detection and security intrusions. Software rejuvenation approaches the fourth dimension against which we evaluated sar studies is with respect to the software rejuvenation actions that were proposed or adopted to counteract software aging. A survey on software aging and rejuvenation in the cloud. A survey report on software aging and rejuvenation studies. In this paper, we first classify software faults and discuss various techniques to deal with them in the testingdebugging phase and. A software reliability model for cloudbased software rejuvenation using dynamic fault trees 3 type of dynamic gate in dft models, called hot spare hsp gate. The result has been manually inspected to remove the many irrelevant results, e. Software aging and rejuvenation for last two decades there has been considerable activity on this topic. A set of 105 papers has been examined from three source digital libraries in order to have a clear view of the state of the art. Papers must be written in english and be formatted according to the ieee authoring guidelines 1. That module can be embedded in any existing application on a unix platform with minimal effort.
Several researchers and practitioners have been addressing the phenomenon of software aging since the seminal paper software rejuvenation. While working on a paper for another conference veena mendiratta and. The 9th international workshop on software aging and. Distinguished papers, after further revisions and approval, will be published in a special issue of software quality journal,springer. Software aging and rejuvenation in big data and iot apps. As the software rejuvenation procedure incurs system overhead and downtime, it is relevant and crucial to optimize the software rejuvenation policy to maximize its benefit and effectiveness. Micro rejuvenation should be the primary focus of shepherding and workshopping for plop 2010. For this purpose, it has been conducted an intensive search of different sources such as companys product websites. In this work, the memory leak in java virtual machine jvm is firstly analyzed, and then the software aging phenomenon in a j2ee application server is investigated.
It involves occasionally terminating an application or a system, cleaning its internal state and restarting it. As the software gets older it becomes less immune and will eventually stop functioning as it should, therefore rebooting or reinstalling the software can be seen as a short term fix. This survey paper provides an overview of studies on software aging and rejuvenation sar that appeared in major journals and conference proceedings. The most of sar papers are focused on determining the optimal schedule to perform rejuvenation, by either analytical models. Recent studies support the use of highintensity aerobic exercise to improve oxidative stress values and functional performance in pd sufferers. Forthcoming articles must be purchased for the purposes of research, teaching and private study only. Modeling and analysis of software aging and rejuvenation. Software aging and rejuvenation kishor s trivedi 12. In proceedings of the 2011 ieee 3rd international workshop on software aging and rejuvenation wosar. Once recovery from failure or rejuvenation is complete, the software is reset to state a and is as good as new. Reliabilitybased software rejuvenation scheduling for. As the ctmc approach has its intrinsic limitation of only. Optimizing system quality of service through rejuvenation for long. Software rejuvenation is a preventive maintenance action which involves cleaning up the aging effects in a system to prevent from future failure.
Pdf a survey of software aging and rejuvenation studies. Software rejuvenation actions comprise system reboot or application restart to bringing software to a stable fresh state. In software engineering, software aging refers to all softwares tendency to fail, or cause a system failure after running continuously for a certain time. A survey report on software aging and rejuvenation studies in. Paper submission will be done electronically through easychair. Software rejuvenation is a proactive and preventive maintenance technique to counteract software aging. Software aging is a phenomenon plaguing many longrunning complex software systems, which exhibit performance degradation or an increasing failure rate. We use a proactive technique, called software rejuvenation, to counteract the software aging problem. Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda. The benefits of aerobic exercise in persons with parkinsons disease pd have been widely studied. Paper submission will be done electronically through easychair 2. In this paper, we propose nmvariant systems, an adversarialresistant software rejuvenation framework for cloudbased web applications.
These models are intended to help develop software rejuvenation policies. In this paper, we survey papers about sar that appeared in ieee conferences and journals, identify where sar research has been mostly focused, and highlight some aspects deserving more attention, with the aim to provoke a constructive discussion among sar researches about. Optimizing software rejuvenation policy for real time tasks. In this paper, we study the optimal time when software rejuvenation shall take place so that the systems reliability, longevity, and availability are. This paper investigates to what extent software rejuvenation techniques are integrated in the it and telco solutions. A a survey of software aging and rejuvenation studies domenico cotroneo, roberto natella, roberto pietrantuono, stefano russo, universita degli studi di napoli federico ii software aging is a.
This paper contains three patterns of which software rejuvenation is the first. Unless software is frequently updated, its users will become dissatisfied and they will change to a new product as soon as the benefits outweigh the costs of retraining and converting. In this paper, we first classify software faults and discuss various techniques to deal with them in the testingdebugging phase and the operational phase of the software. It involves stopping the running software occasionally, cleaning its internal state and restarting it. Thus, software rejuvenation is a costeffective technique for dealing with software faults that include protection not only against hard failures, but against performance degradation as well. Compromises can go unnoticed for months, if not years, and recovery often involves a complete system rebuild. Software rejuvenation is the concept of gracefully terminating an application and. This paper proposes a methodology to conduct software aging and software rejuvenation experiments. Several strategies based on the proactive rejuvenation of the software state have been proposed to counteract software aging and prevent failures. Wosar is the premier international venue to discuss the recent advances and discoveries in theoretical and practical aspects of software aging and rejuvenation research. Abstract software rejuvenation has been addressed in hundreds of papers since it was proposed in 1995 by huang et al. A software rejuvenation feature known as process recycling has been implemented in the microsoft iis 5. Then it is converted into markov chains to derive the system reliability function.
Web servers are a popular target for adversaries as they are publicly accessible and often vulnerable to compromise. Mateus nogueira, felipe assis, daniel sadoc menasche, geraldo xexeo and katinka wolter. Software rejuvenation to counteract the phenomenon of software aging, a proactive approach of fault management, called software rejuvenation is introduced. However, no paper has studied yet software rejuvenation in the real world. Software rejuvenation is a cost effective and time effective method. Experiments to measure and observe software aging symptoms may have a long duration. Software rejuvenation based fault tolerance scheme for cloud. For all the above suggested topics, wosar is a unique forum to discuss the software aging and rejuvenation impacts on different domains of applicability such as. Software rejuvenation based fault tolerance scheme for. Optimizing software rejuvenation policy for real time. Reliabilitybased software rejuvenation scheduling for cloud. Analysis, module and applications by huang, kintala, kolettis and fulton, which started research on the software aging phenomenon and the possibility of counteracting it via software rejuvenation, appeared exactly 20 years ago. International journal of software engineering, technology. We use a proactive technique, called software rejuvenation, to.
International journal of software engineering, technology and applications. Too many papers at software engineering conferences focus on the problems of getting to the first release. Some papers propose scheduling of software rejuvenation actions melo et al. Software rejuvenation is a proactive maintenance technique adopted in diverse and wide applications for mitigating. A software reliability model for cloudbased software. Experiences with software rejuvenation in a billing data. Sep 18, 2014 software rejuvenation is a proactive and preventive maintenance technique to counteract software aging. This article proposes a new method for software rejuvenation that follows a new policy for determining the time of. A widely studied problem that can greatly affect the user experience is runtime software aging, whose main countermeasure is a. They will refer to that software as old and outdated. In a clientserver type of application where the server is intended to ran perpetually for providing a service to its clients, rejuvenating the server process periodically during the most idle time of the server increases the availability of that service. Software rejuvenation is the concept of gracefully terminating an application and immediately restarting it at a clean internal state. Lukas beierlieb, lukas ifflander, aleksandar milenkoski, charles f. Papers must be written in english and be formatted according to the ieee authoring guidelines.
A method based on time series forecasting and multiple thresholds. In software engineering, software aging refers to all software s tendency to fail, or cause a system failure after running continuously for a certain time. Software aging is a problem of progressive degradation of performance and dependability in computer programs, especially those executing for long period of time. The second, count the black sheep, provides a solution to the problem of knowing precisely what fault has activated. Software rejuvenation in eucalyptus cloud computing infrastructure. Effect of longterm aging on microstructural restoration in cast nickel base superalloy, gtd111. We discuss the phenomenon of software aging and a preventive maintenance technique to. From this moment, which constitutes a renewal, the whole process stochastically repeats itself. We present in this paper sarry, the software aging and rejuvenation repository, which is an openaccess support for. This phenomenon has been extensively studied since more than 20 years, as it affects many systems, from embedded devices to server software to critical systems.
Cloud computing, mobile, embedded, medical, cyberphysical, scada, smart cities, transportation, telecommunication, military, system of systems, databases, high performance. Special session on invited journal papers there will be a special session titled invited journal papers at wosar 2018. A survey of software aging and rejuvenation studies acm. Full papers should not exceed seven pages in ieee style. Software rejuvenation modeling and analysis springerlink. This paper contains patterns on rejuvenation, nversion programming and using error. A proactive fault management method to deal with the. Software rejuvenation is a technique of proactive fault tolerance that. Eighth international workshop on software aging and rejuvenation wosar 2016 colocated with issre 2016, october 2327, 2016, ottawa, canada since its first edition in 2008, wosar has been the international event. Microrejuvenation should be the primary focus of shepherding and workshopping for plop 2010.
Modeling the implementation of software rejuvenation in computer systems. In this paper, we first describe how to include faults attributed to software. All the accepted papers will be included in the ieee xplore digital library. Software rejuvenation has been addressed in hundreds of papers since it was proposed in 1995 by huang et al. Software rejuvenation proceedings of the twentyfifth. Micro rejuvenation is a technique of small reboots done frequently to extend the time without a failure. After 16 years, a significant body of knowledge has been established in the area of software aging and rejuvenation sar. For most it companies, the quality of provided services is strongly dependent on reliability and performance of the underlying cloud technologies. For all the above topics, wosar is a unique forum to discuss the software aging and rejuvenation impacts on systems from different domains of applicability such as.
Papers is a reference management software for mac os x and windows, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. A a survey of software aging and rejuvenation studies. More precisely, the software rejuvenation models are for mulated via the semimarkov process, and the optimal soft. The growing number of research papers shows the great. Microrejuvenation is a technique of small reboots done frequently to extend the time without a failure.
The adoption of cloud computing for providing resource and delivering services is an irreversible trend. Software rejuvenation is a technique of proactive fault tolerance that designs the system for periodic reboots. Full papers 1 should not exceed seven pages in ieee style. Most recent papers in the journal rejuvenation research. Software rejuvenation is the concept of gracefully terminating an. Norachan, panyawat wangyao, sureerat polsilapa, gobboon lothongkum. Apporoaches to software rejuvenation software rejuvenation can be divided broadly into two approaches as follows. Due to a gradual depletion of os resources, software systems behave as if they are aging. Pdf software rejuvenation is the concept of gracefully terminating an. Software aging and rejuvenation in a j2ee application server. This work considers the optimal rejuvenation policy problem for systems subject to multiple performance degradation levels and performing realtime tasks. Topics of interest this call for papers addresses all researchers and practitioners with an interest about performance and dependability degradation of software systems. To counteract software aging, a technique called software rejuvenation has been. Software aging and rejuvenation in a j2ee application.
The popular web server software apache implements a form of rejuvenation by killing and recreating processes after a certain numbers of requests have been served 19, 20. Wosar is a unique forum for discussing the impacts of software aging and rejuvenation in different domains of applicability, such as cloud computing, smart grids, mobile, transportation, embedded systems, cyberphysical systems, medical devices, and systems of systems. This survey article provides an overview of studies on software aging and rejuvenation sar. The analytical approach is then formally verified using a continuous time markov chains ctmc model to ensure its correctness. Lastly, the software occasionally undergoes rejuvenation, denoted by state c. Software rejuvenation robert hanmer, alcatellucent software rejuvenation is a technique of proactive fault tolerance that designs the system for periodic reboots. For all the above topics, wosar is a unique forum to discuss the software aging and rejuvenation impacts on systems from different. Fault localization and testing for agingrelated bugs. It is primarily used to organize references and maintain a library of pdf documents and also provides a uniform interface for document repository searches, metadata editing, full screen reading and a variety of ways to import and export documents. Authors are invited to submit high quality unpublished research work describing the results of theoretical and experimental software aging and rejuvenation research. The dynamic fault tree dft formalism is adopted to model the system reliability before and during a software rejuvenation process in an aging cloudbased system. In this paper, we focus on the software aging phenomenon where system performance may be progressively degraded due to exhaustion of system resources, fragmentation and accumulation of errors.
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