A Method of Reliability Assessment based on Stochastic Differential Equation Model for a Cloud Open Source Software  
Author Yoshinobu Tamura

 
Co-Author(s) Shigeru Yamada

 
Abstract At present, a cloud computing is attracting attention as a network service to share the computing resources, i.e., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services. Also, many open source softwares are developed in all parts of the world, i.e, Firefox, Apache HTTP server, Linux, Android, etc. Especially, we focus on a cloud computing environment by using open source software such as OpenStack and Eucalyptus because of the unify management of data, low cost. In this paper, we propose a new approach to software reliability assessment based on the stochastic differential equations in order to consider the interesting aspect of the network status of cloud computing environment. Also, we analyze actual software fault-count data to show numerical examples of software reliability assessment considering the characteristics of network environment.

 
Keywords Open source software, Cloud computing, Reliability, Stochastic differential equation
   
    Article #:  1852
 
Proceedings of the 18th ISSAT International Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design
July 26-28, 2012 - Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.