… In this paper, we propose to construct a stochastic reward nets (SRN) to model and analyze
the availability of a virtualized system. Further, we study the effect on the availability when …

… Previous work on availability modeling and analysis of the … comprehensive availability model
using stochastic reward nets (… We also show numerical analysis on steady state availability, …

… By augmenting SPNs with a method of specifying reward rates at the net … reward models.
For convenience we will refer to these SPNs augmented with rewards as stochastic reward nets …

… reward net models, Performance Evaluation 18 (1993) 37-59. We present a decomposition
approach for the solution of large stochastic reward nets (SRNs) … Petri nets; stochastic reward …

… Reward Nets (SRNs) for the automatic generation of these large Markov reward models. …
turing various kinds of dependencies that occur in reliability/availability models [8, 24, 32]. …

… example in availability modeling, which was presented by Tomek and Trivedi in [26]. Availability
at … is termed steady-state availability. Tomek and Trivedi have described a steady-state …

… This chapter presented a set of availability models based on stochastic reward net for
comprehensive system availability evaluation in data center systems. The data center systems …

… to the complexity of modeling. In this paper, we present an availability modeling method for
server … , who do not have expertise in availability modeling, to design and study the effects of …

… network nodes by Stochastic Reward Nets, that account for … out by adopting non-Markovian
models, thus allowing for more … to guarantee a steady-state availability not less than 0.99999, …

… into the availability modeling of a simplified virtualized system using stochastic reward net
(SRN). Nevertheless, none of the above-mentioned works studied cost-aware availability for …