Software Rejuvenation and Replicated Rejuvenated Services

In this paper, the software rejuvenation model, designed for a continuously running non-replicated application, is extended for the case of distributed systems with rejuvenated replicated services. It identifies to which extent an increase in availability can be achieved and how the cost associated with downtime can be reduced using software rejuvenation combined with replication. Based on two representative situations in a case study, it can be concluded that replica rejuvenation improves the service availability and reduces the cost associated with downtime. In general, replica rejuvenation improves the availability even in the cases where, in the original model, rejuvenation is not recommended.