Dependency-based fault diagnosis approach for SOA-based systems using Colored Petri Nets

A faulty situation occurred in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based systems can affect its functionality. It is challenging to guarantee the reliability of service utilization in a distributed, concurrent and dynamic composition of web services. This paper aims to present a fault detection approach of SOA using dependency analysis. Data and control dependencies are identified and a fault diagnosis approach based on these dependencies is proposed in this paper. The presented approach extends discrete state space techniques to simulate the concurrent and distributed behavior through Colored Petri Nets (CPNs) for the SOA-based systems in case of the faulty situation. Concrete translation from SOA based system to a CPN model is presented. Model-based technique is used and some heuristics are presented for dependency analysis and fault detection purpose. The experimental performance analysis shows the feasibility of our proposed approach.