Proposal of a Method to Build Markov Chain Usage Model from UML Diagrams for Communication Delay Testing in Distributed Systems

Authors
Tetsuro Katayama, Zhijia Zhao, Yoshihiro Kita, Hisaaki Yamaba, Naonobu Okazaki
Corresponding Author
Tetsuro Katayama
Available Online 15 September 2014.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2991/jrnal.2014.1.2.5
Keywords
distributed systems, communication delay, Markov Chain Usage Model, UML diagram, reliability
Abstract
As the growth of network technology with high parallelism and high reliability of distributed systems, they have been widely adopted in the enterprise and society. But, how to design for testing the real-time or a communication delay of distributed systems is not been discussed much. This paper proposes a new method to automatically build Markov Chain Usage Model. The proposed method establishes the time points and builds a new UML diagram which can test the communication delay of a distributed system to improve its reliability. We have confirmed the usefulness of the proposed method to adapt it to practical examples.

Copyright
© 2013, the Authors. Published by ALife Robotics Corp. Ltd.
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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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