Observation-Enhanced QoS Analysis of Component-Based Systems

05/24/2018
by   Colin Paterson, et al.
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We present a new method for the accurate analysis of the quality-of-service (QoS) properties of component-based systems. Our method takes as input a QoS property of interest and a high-level continuous-time Markov chain (CTMC) model of the analysed system, and refines this CTMC based on observations of the execution times of the system components. The refined CTMC can then be analysed with existing probabilistic model checkers to accurately predict the value of the QoS property. The paper describes the theoretical foundation underlying this model refinement, the tool we developed to automate it, and two case studies that apply our QoS analysis method to a service-based system implemented using public web services and to an IT support system at a large university, respectively. Our experiments show that traditional CTMC-based QoS analysis can produce highly inaccurate results and may lead to invalid engineering and business decisions. In contrast, our new method reduced QoS analysis errors by 84.4-89.6 the IT support system, significantly lowering the risk of such invalid decisions.

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