Fuzzy based QoS prediction using bayesian network in cloud computing environment

Abstract

The Quality of Service (QoS) is enforced in discovering an optimal web service (WS).The QoS is uncertain due to the fluctuating performance of WS in the dynamic cloud environment. We propose a Fuzzy based Bayesian Network (FBN) system for Efficient QoS prediction. The novel method comprises three processes namely Semantic QoS Annotation, QoS Prediction, and Adaptive QoS using cloud infrastructure. The FBN employs the compliance factor to measure the performance of QoS attributes and fuzzy inference rules to infer the service capability. The inference rules are defined according to the user preference which assists to achieve the user satisfaction. The FBN returns the optimal WSs from a set of functionally equivalent WS. The unpredictable and extreme access of the selected WS is handled using cloud infrastructure. The results show that the FBN approach achieves nearly 95% of QoS prediction accuracy when providing an adequate number of past QoS data, and improves the prediction probability by 2.6% more than that of the existing approach.