• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.177-185
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• 2005

NAND-type flash memory is becoming increasingly popular as a large data storage for mobile computing devices. Since flash memory is an order of magnitude more expensive than magnetic disks, data compression can be effectively used in managing flash memory based storage systems. However, compressed data management in NAND-type flash memory is challenging because it supports only page-based I/Os. For example, when the size of compressed data is smaller than the page size. internal fragmentation occurs and this degrades the effectiveness of compression seriously. In this paper, we present an efficient flash compression layer (FCL) for NAND-type flash memory which stores several small compressed pages into one physical page by using a write buffer Based on prototype implementation and simulation studies, we show that the proposed scheme offers the storage of flash memory more than $140\%$ of its original size and expands the write bandwidth significantly.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.223-225
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• 2007

본 연구에서는 대용량 메모리 데이터 처리를 위한 범용 하드웨어 기반의 결함내성 원격 메모리 시스템의 성능을 분석하고자 한다. 대단히 빠른 접근 속도를 보장하는 휘발성 메모리를 이용한 원격 메모리 시스템의 실용적인 활용을 위해서는 결함내성의 성질이 필수적으로 보장되어야 한다. 본 연구에서는 RAID 기법과 유사한 방법을 이용하여 결함내성 메모리 시스템을 구현하고, 제안한 새로운 계층의 결함내성 메모리의 성능을 평가하고자 한다. 범용으로 쓰이는 MySQL과 같은 데이터베이스를 이용한 TPC-C 실험 결과로 볼 때 본 연구에서 구현한 결함내성 원격 메모리 시스템은 일반적인 대용량 메모리 데이터 처리 시스템에서 요구하는 필수요건인 결함내성 성질을 성공적으로 만족하고 있는 것으로 생각된다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.29 no.8
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• pp.445-455
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• 2002

In this paper, we present a new task scheduling scheme ior the efficient execution of the tasks of compound nodes of hierarchical task graph(HTG) on shared memory system. The proposed scheme for exploitation functional parallelism is autoscheduling that performs the role of scheduling by processor itself without any dedicated global scheduler. To adapt the proposed scheduling scheme for various platforms, Including a uni-processor systems, Java threads were used for implementation, and the performance is analyzed in comparison with a conventional bit vector method. The experimental results showed that the proposed method was found to be more efficient in its execution time and exhibited good load-balancing when using the experimental parameter values. Furthermore, the memory size could be reduced when using the proposed algorithm compared with a conventional scheme.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.538-540
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• 2001

클러스터 시스템의 각 노드에 존재하는 메모리들을 효율적으로 관리하기 위하여 네트워크 메모리의 개념이 등장하였으며 빈번하게 디스크를 접근하는 응용분야에서 속도 향상을 위해 사용될 수 있다. 이는 전통적인 메모리 계층(hierarchy) 구조인 메모리와 디스크 사이에 네트워크 메모리를 추가함으로써 얻어진다. 본 논문에서는 웹 서버 클러스터를 대상으로 문서의 접근 유형에 대한 사전의 정보를 요구하지 않고 실제적으로 구현 가능하며 다양한 웹 문서 접근 확률 분포 값에 대하여 항상 우수한 사용자 응답시간을 가지는 메모리 관리 기법을 제안하고 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안된 방식의 우수성을 검증하였다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.12A no.7 s.97
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• pp.621-626
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• 2005

Recently, flash memory is widely used in various embedded applications since it has many advantages in terms of non-volatility, fast access speed, shock resistance, and low power consumption. However, it requires a software layer called FTL(Flash Translation Layer) due to its hardware characteristics. We present a new FTL algorithm named LSTAFF(Large State Transition Applied Fast flash Translation Layer) which is designed for large block flash memory The presented LSTAFF is adjusted to flash memory with pages which are larger than operating system data sector sizes and we provide performance results based on our implementation of LSTAFF and previous FTL algorithms using a flash simulator.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.477-487
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• 2005

As embedded system grows in size and complexity, the importance of the technique for dynamic memory allocation has increased. The objective of this paper is to measure the performance of dynamic memory allocation by varying both hardware and software design parameters for embedded systems. Unlike torrent performance evaluation studies that have presumed the single threaded system with single address spate without OS support, our study adopts realistic environment where the embedded system runs on Linux OS. This paper contains the experimental performance analyses of dynamic memory allocation method by investigating the effects of each software layer and some hardware design parameters. Our quantitative results tan be used to help system designers design high performance, low power embedded systems.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.31 no.12
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• pp.704-715
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• 2004

Recently, a single or multi processor system uses the hierarchical memory structure to reduce the time gap between processor clock rate and memory access time. A cache memory system includes especially two or three levels of caches to reduce this time gap. Moreover, one of the most important things In the hierarchical memory system is the hit rate in level 1 cache, because level 1 cache interfaces directly with the processor. Therefore, the high hit rate in level 1 cache is critical for system performance. A victim cache, another high level cache, is also important to assist level 1 cache by reducing the conflict miss in high level cache. In this paper, we propose the advanced high level cache management scheme based on the processor reuse information. This technique is a kind of cache replacement policy which uses the frequency of processor's memory accesses and makes the higher frequency address of the cache location reside longer in cache than the lower one. With this scheme, we simulate our policy using Augmint, the event-driven simulator, and analyze the simulation results. The simulation results show that the modified processor reuse information scheme(LIVMR) outperforms the level 1 with the simple victim cache(LIV), 6.7% in maximum and 0.5% in average, and performance benefits become larger as the number of processors increases.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.43 no.5 s.311
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• pp.1-7
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• 2006

This paper presents experimental instruction-level current consumption model for low power microcontroller ATmega128. The accessibility of instruction for internal memory decides power consumption of the microcontroller as much as 17% of difference between access instruction and non-access instruction. The power consumption for the given program will be increased in the proportional to the ratio of memory access instruction and lower level memory access in the hierarchy. Throughout the current consumption model, the power consumption can be predicted and optimized in the direction of reducing the frequency memory access. Also, the various optimization methods are introduced in terms of software and hardware viewpoints.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.521-531
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• 2009

Flash memory has physical characteristics different from hard disk where two costs of a read and write operations differ each other and an overwrite on flash memory is impossible to be done. In order to solve these restrictions with software, storage systems equipped with flash memory deploy FTL(Flash Translation Layer) software. Several FTL algorithms have been suggested so far and most of them prefer sequential write pattern to random write pattern. In this paper, we provide a new technique to efficiently store and maintain the B-tree index on flash memory. The operations like inserts, deletes, updates of keys for the B-tree generate random writes rather than sequential writes on flash memory, leading to inefficiency to the B-tree maintenance. In our technique, we convert random writes generated by the B-tree into sequential writes and then store them to the write-buffer on flash memory. If the buffer is full later, some sequential writes in the buffer will be issued to FTL. Our diverse experimental results show that our technique outperforms the existing ones with respect to the I/O cost of flash memory.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.958-962
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• 2009

Flash memory, which replaces hard disk recently, has different physical characteristics with hard disk. For the performance of flash memory based storage system, many researches over OS and file system layers has been doing. In this paper, we propose the architecture of flash memory based storage which uses information of page invalidation when file deletion occurs from upper layer. Also, we evaluate the performance of proposed system. Proposed system effectively increases IO performance by using page invalidation information to block merge and wear leveling algorithms.