• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.7 no.8
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• pp.1086-1096
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• 2004

In case of a multimedia application which deals with streaming data, in terms of cache management, cache loses its efficiency due to weak temporal locality of the data. This means that when data have been brought into cache, much of the data are supposed to be replaced without being accessed again during its service. However, there is a good chance that such multimedia data has a commanding locality in it. In this paper, to take advantage of the memory reference regularity which typically innates even in the multimedia data showing up its weak temporal locality, a method is suggested. The suggested method with the feature of dynamic regular-stride reference prefetching can identify for 2-dimensional array format(block pattern). The suggested method is named as block-reference-prediction-technique (BRPT) since it identifies a block pattern and place an address to be prefetched by the regulation of the block format. BRPT proved to be reassuring to reduce memory reference time significantly for applications having abundant block patterns although new rule has complicated the prefetching system even further.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.11A no.3
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• pp.163-172
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• 2004

Multimedia applications tend to access their data as a streaming pattern with regular intervals. This characteristic can be utilized in prefetching the multimedia data into cache memory so as to reduce their execution speeds. The reference-prediction prefetch algorithm predicts the memory address that seems to be used in the next time based on the previous history of memory references stored in the prediction reference table. This paper proposes a strategy to manipulate the reference prediction table which contains all of the data reference instructions to scalar and streaming data. We have recognized that the scalar reference instructions do not contribute to the data prefetching algorithm. Therefore, when replacing an element in the reference prediction table, the proposed algorithm preferentially selects the scalar reference instruction before the stream reference instruction. It makes the stream reference instruction to stay for a long time compared to the FIFO replacement policy, and eventually improves the performance of data prefetching.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.11c
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• pp.1993-1996
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 고속 네트워킹 환경을 위한 패킷 필터링 시스템 설계 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법은 기존 리눅스 운영체제에서 동작하는 패킷 필터링 구조의 단점을 개선하기 위하여, 패킷 필터링 규칙 저장 시 특정 커널 메모리 영역을 할당하여 패킷 검사와 관련된 모든 규칙을 취합하여 저장하고, 패킷 검사 시에 할당된 메모리 영역에서 규칙을 한꺼번에 접근하여 검사하는 방법이다. 또한 규칙의 크기를 고정화하여 규칙 검색 시 규칙 저장 위치를 간단하게 계산할 수 있도록 하였다. 이로 인해 기존의 테이블 구조에서 지니고 있던 다단계 테이블 검색으로 인한 메모리 참조 시간을 줄이고, 가변 규칙으로 인한 계산의 번거로움을 해소할 수 있다. 이를 통하여 고속 네트워크 노드 환경에서의 패킷 필터링 기능을 효율적으로 지원할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.217-219
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• 2003

멀티미디어 응용 프로그램은 방대한 양의 데이터를 실시간으로 고속 처리해야 한다. 적재/저장과 같은 메모리 참조 명령어는 프로세서의 고속 수행에 방해가 되는 주요인이다. 본 논문에서는 메모리 참조 속도를 향상시키기 위해 멀티미디어 데이터의 주소간격이 규칙적으로 참조되는 특성을 활용하여 다음에 참조될 데이터를 미리 캐시로 선인출 함으로써 실행시 캐시 미스율을 줄이고 또한 전체 수행시간을 줄이는 효과적인 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 캐시 미스율을 줄이는 방법으로서 데이터 선인출 기법을 사용하는데 주소간격을 이동한 기존 연구들에 비해 캐시 미스율에 있어서 평균적으로 27%향상되었다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.11A no.1
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• pp.11-20
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• 2004

Multimedia data processing in streaming pattern contains high spatial locality and low temporal locality. This paper has proposed a dynamic data prefetching scheme that fully exploits the regularity between memory addresses referred consecutively. Compared to the existing data Prefetching scheme, the Proposed scheme can reduce data Prefetching error when an application divides an way into smaller blocks and processes them block by block. Experimental results on various media benchmark programs show the proposed scheme predicts memory addresses more accurately and results in better performance than existing prefetching schemes.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.135-138
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• 2003

멀티미디어 응용프로그램은 처리데이터를 참조할 때 대부분 간격이 일정한 스트리밍 패턴으로 참조한다. 이 특성을 선인출 방법에 적용하여 멀티미디어 응용프로그램의 성능을 항상 시킬 수 있다. 이 논문에서는 하드웨어기반의 규칙 선인출 방법에서 참조예측표에 운영하는 방법을 제안한다. 크기가 제한되어 있는 참조예측표에 메모리 참조 명령어를 추가할 때 주소간격이 0인 행을 우선적으로 제거함으로써 비용절감의 효과를 가져올 수 있다. 실험 결과 제안한 방법과 기존의 참조예측표를 FIFO 방식으로 운영하는 방법을 비교할 때 제안한 방법의 경우 참조예측표의 크기를 반으로 줄여도 거의 같은 효과를 볼 수 있었다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.31 no.11
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• pp.658-672
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• 2004

Multimedia applications are required to process the huge amount of data at high speed in real time. The memory reference instructions such as loads and stores are the main factor which limits the high speed execution of processor. To enhance the memory reference speed, cache prefetch schemes are used so as to reduce the cache miss ratio and the total execution time by previously fetching data into cache that is expected to be referenced in the future. In this study, we present an advanced data cache prefetching scheme that improves the conventional RPT (reference prediction table) based scheme. We considers the cache line size in calculation of the address stride referenced by the same instruction, and enhances the prefetching algorithm so that the effect of prefetching could be maintained even if an irregular address stride is inserted into the series of uniform strides. According to experiment results on multimedia benchmark programs, the cache miss ratio has been improved 29% in average compared to the conventional RPT scheme while the bus usage has increased relatively small amount (0.03%).

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.1A
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• pp.53-64
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• 2004

As to medium data which is involved in the form of streaming for a multimedia application, it characterizes that spatial locality occurs strongly but temporal locality appears even weaker. In this paper, with regard to dynamic prefetching, we suggest a method to make the most of memory reference regularities which typically innate by nature in the multimedia data with strong spatial locality but with weak temporal locality. Especially, the suggested method has a remarkable capability such that it can reduce prefetching errors substantially compared to existing prefetching methods for an application Program which divides an way into small sub-blocks and, plus executes in the unit of sub-block. We carried out experiments to test the suggested method using various MediaBench benchmarks. From the results, we have confirmed that the occurrences of prefetching error decrease effectively than those of existing linear prefetching methods.