• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.296-305
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• 2005

TCP/IP, the most popular communication protocol, is processed on a host CPU in traditional computer systems and this imposes enormous loads on the host CPU. Recently TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) technology, which processes TCP/IP on a network adapter instead of the host CPU, becomes an important way to solve the problem. In this paper we analysed the structure of a TCP/IP protocol stack in the Linux operating system and important factors, which cause a lot of loads on the host CPU, by measuring the time spent on processing each function in the protocol stack. Based on these analyses, we propose a Hybrid TOE architecture, in which functions imposing much loads on the host CPU are implemented using hardware and other functions are implemented using software.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.26 no.10
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• pp.1156-1166
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• 1999

의사결정 시스템은 전사적인 의사결정과 전략적 정보수집을 위해 거대한 량의 정보를 빠른 시간내에 제공할 것을 요구한다. 데이타 웨어하우스는 이러한 정보를 신속히 제공하기 위해 여러 지역 데이타베이스로부터 필요한 정보를 사전에 추출하고 가공 및 통합하여 별도의 저장공간에 저장한다. 일반적으로, 웨어하우스 내의 정보는 지역 데이타베이스에 저장된 정보에 대한 실체화된 뷰로서 간주하며 지역 데이타의 변경에 따라 일관성을 유지하도록 반영해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 일관성을 유지하기 위해 정보 공유가 가능한 데이타 웨어하우스 시스템의 구조와 비-보상 실체 뷰 관리 기법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 데이타 웨어하우스 시스템의 구조는 지역 데이타베이스에서 추출된 정보를 관리하는 별도의 지역 정보 관리자를 두어 뷰 관리자들 간의 정보 공유가 가능하게 한다. 비-보상 실체 뷰 관리 기법은 지역 데이타 변경 사건에 따른 뷰 관리 시 다른 사건에 의해 영향을 받지 않도록 하기 때문에 기본의 사전 보상이나 나중 보상 기법과는 달리 추가적인 질의 처리를 요구하지 않는 기법이다.Abstract A decision support system(DSS) commonly requires fast access to tremendous volume of information. A data warehouse is a database storing the information that is extracted, filtered and integrated from several relevant local databases to reply upon aggregated queries. The information stored in the data warehouse can be regarded as materialized views. The materialized view has to be modified according to the change of the corresponding local databases to preserve the data consistency. In this paper, we propose a data warehousing system architecture allowing information sharing (DAWINS), and a non-compensating materialized view maintenance algorithm(NCA). DAWINS architecture allows relevant information to be shared by individual view managers with local data manager for each local database. Unlikely to the pre- or post-compensating algorithms, which are required to remove the effects of some events to other view in the process of view maintenance, NCA does not require any additional query processing, since a local data manager in DAWINS already maintains the effects of update events occurring in local systems.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.464-476
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• 2002

Main-memory database systems which reside entire databases in main memory are suitable for high-performance real-time transaction processing. If two-phase locking(2PL) as concurrency control protocol is used for the transactions accessing main-memory databases, however, the possibility of lock conflict will be low but lock operations become relatively big overhead in total transaction processing time. In this paper, We designed a real-time static locking(RT-SL) protocol which minimizes lock operation overhead and reflects the priority of transactions and we implemented it on a main-memory real-time database system, Mr.RT. We also evaluate and compare its performance with the existing real-time locking protocols based on 2PL such as 2PL-PI and 2PL-HP. The extensive experiments reveal that our RT-SL outperforms the existing ones in most cases.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.30 no.12
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• pp.724-735
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• 2003

In recent high-performance superscalar processors, the result value of an instruction is predicted to improve instruction-level parallelism by breaking data dependencies. Using those predicted values, instructions are speculatively executed and substantial performance can be gained. It, however, requires additional power consumption due to the frequent access and update of the value prediction table. In this paper, first, the trade-off between the performance improvement and the increased power consumption for value prediction is measured and analyzed. And, in order to reduce additional power consumption without performance loss, the technique of controlling speculative execution with confidence counter and predicting useful instructions is developed. Also, in order to prove the validity, a tool is developed that can simulate processor behavior at cycle-level and measure total energy consumption and power consumption per cycle.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.95-100
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• 2016

In the current era of big data and cloud computing, the amount of data utilized is increasing, and various systems to process this big data rapidly are being developed. A distributed file system is often used to store the data, and glusterFS is one of popular distributed file systems. As computer technology has advanced, NAND flash SSDs (Solid State Drives), which are high performance storage devices, have become cheaper. For this reason, datacenter operators attempt to use SSDs in their systems. They also try to install glusterFS on SSDs. However, since the glusterFS is designed to use HDDs (Hard Disk Drives), when SSDs are used instead of HDDs, the performance is degraded due to structural problems. The problems include the use of I/O-cache, Read-ahead, and Write-behind Translators. By removing these features that do not fit SSDs which are advantageous for random I/O, we have achieved performance improvements, by up to 255% in the case of 4KB random reads, and by up to 50% in the case of 64KB random reads.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.34 no.10
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• pp.889-899
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• 2007

In proteomics, recent advancements In mass spectrometry technology and in protein extraction and separation technology made high-throughput analysis possible. This leads to thousands to hundreds of thousands of MS/MS spectra per single LC-MS/MS experiment. Such a large amount of data creates significant computational challenges and therefore effective data analysis methods that make efficient use of computational resources and, at the same time, provide more peptide identifications are in great need. Here, SIFTER system is designed to avoid inefficient processing of shotgun proteomic data. SIFTER provides software tools that can improve throughput of mass spectrometry-based peptide identification by filtering out poor-quality tandem mass spectra and estimating a Peptide charge state prior to applying analysis algorithms. SIFTER tools characterize and assess spectral features and thus significantly reduce the computation time and false positive rates by localizing spectra that lead to wrong identification prior to full-blown analysis. SIFTER enables fast and in-depth interpretation of tandem mass spectra.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.41 no.8
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• pp.586-597
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• 2014

The next generation mobile computing technology is recently attracting attention that smartphone and wearable device imbedded with various sensors are being deployed in the world. Existing activity and posture recognition research can be divided into two different ways considering feature of one's movement. While activity recognition focuses on catching distinct pattern according to continuous movement, posture recognition focuses on sudden change of posture and body orientation. There is a lack of research constructing a system mixing two separate patterns which could be applied in real world. In this paper, we propose a method to use both smartphone and wearable device to recognize activity and posture in the same time. To use smartphone and wearable sensor data together, we designed a pre-processing method and constructed recognition model mixing signal vector magnitude and orientation pattern features of vertical and horizontal. We considered cycling, fast/slow walking and running activities, and postures such as standing, sitting, and laying down. We confirmed the performance and validity by experiment, and proved the feasibility in real world.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.33 no.9
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• pp.608-614
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• 2006

The popularization of high-speed networks and the innovation of high-performance hardware/servers have enlarged the role of large-scale, highly distributed IT infrastructure. Though many criteria on the assessment of IT infrastructure can be considered, the survivability assessment is treated as the most important one due to the essential role as an infrastructure. While assessing the survivability of some given IT infrastructures, we can not only choose the best one among them but also improve their survivability by modifying their structure and security policies. In this paper, we propose a DMKB-based assessment system on the survivability of IT infrastructures, where DMKB is a kind of database which provides the known vulnerabilities and defense mechanism for many system components.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.21-27
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• 2002

This paper presents a mews event reenactment system (NERS), which generates virtual character animations in a quick and convenient manner. Thus, NERS can be used to produce computer graphics(CG) scenes of news events that are hard to photograph, such as fire, traffic accident, cases of murder, and so on. By using plenty of captured motion data and CG model data this system produces an appropriate animation of virtual characters straightforwardly without any motion capturing device and actors in the authoring stage. NERS is designed to be capable of making virtual characters move along user-defined paths, stitching motions smoothly and modifyingthe positions and of the articulations of a virtual character in a specific frame. Therefore a virtual character can be controlled precisely so as to interact with the virtual environments and other characters. NERS provides both an interactive and script-based (MEL: Maya Embedded Language) interface so that user can this system in a convenient way. This system has been implemented as a plug-in of commercial CG tool, Maya (Alias/wavefront), in order to make use of its advanced functions

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.423-428
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• 2004

The development of a compact and high performance MWIR thermal imaging sensor based on the SOFRADIR 320${\times}$240 element IRCCD detector is described. The sensor has 20 magnification zoom optics with the maximum 40$^{\circ}$${\times}$30$^{\circ}$ of super wide field of view and 7.6 cycles/mrad of resolving power with the operation of attached micro-scanning system. In order to correct nonuniformities of detector arrays, we have proposed a multi-point correction method using defocusing of the optics and we have acquired the highest quality images. The MRTD of our system shows good results below 0.05K at spatial frequency 1 cycles/mrad at narrow field of view. Experimental data and obtained performances are presented and discussed.