Efficient Critical System Event Recognition and Prediction in Cloud Computing Systems

A reliable system is one of most important goal of system engineers. However, system failure, software failure, outside attacks, and mis-actions make the system unstable and unreliable. Reducing the impact of system failure is possible if accurate failure predictions are provided. Resources, applications, and services can be scheduled around predicted failure and limit the impact. In Cloud Computing environment, virtualization is a basic technique that increases the utilization of system resources. However different virtual machines may generate number of system events. Events from different virtual machines can affect system stability together. Such mechanisms are especially important for Cloud Computing environment. In this paper, we propose an event recognition and prediction mechanism to increase system stability in a virtualization environment. Keywords—System Reliability, Event Recognition, Event Prediction, Virtualizations