• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.617-630
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• 1996

In this paper, a shared-concurrent file system (S-CFS) is designed and implemented using conventional disks as disk arrays on a Workstation Cluster which can be used as a small-scale server. Since it is implemented on UNIX operating systems, S_CFS is not only portable and flexible but also efficient in resource usage because it does not require additional I/O nodes. The result of the research shows that on small-scale systems with enough disks, the performance of the concurrent file system on transaction processing applications is bounded by the bottleneck of CPUs computing powers while the performance of the concurrent file system on massive data I/Os is bounded by the time required to copy data between buffers. The concurrent file system,which has been implemented on a Workstation Cluster with 8 disks,shows a throughput of 388 tps in case of transaction processing applications and can provide the bandwidth of 15.8 Mbytes/sec in case of massive data processing applications. Moreover,the concurrent file system has been dsigned to enhance the throughput of applications requirring high performance I/O by controlling the paralleism of the concurrent file system on user's side.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.1-17
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• 2008

Recently, the object based storage devices systems(OSDs) have been actively researched. They are different from existing block based storage systems(BSDs) in terms of the storage unit. The storage unit of the OSDs is an object that includes the access methods, the attributes of data, the security information, and so on. The object has no size limit and no influence on the internal storage structures. Therefore, the OSDs improve the I/O throughput and the scalability. But the backup systems for the OSDs still use the existing backup techniques for the BSDs. As a result, they need much backup time and do not utilize the characteristics of the OSDs. In this paper, we design and implement a new object based backup system that utilizes the features of the OSDs. Our backup system significantly improves the backup time over existing backup systems because the raw objects are directly transferred to the backup devices in our system. It also restores the backup data much faster than the existing systems when system failures occur. In addition, it supports various types of backup and restore requests.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.260-269
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• 2003

The traditional distributed object middleware platform is not suitable for the transmission of stream data, because RPC(Remote Procedure Call)-based message transmission have a great overhead. Therefore, the OMG(Object Management Group) proposes the AV(Audio and Video) stream reference model for streaming on the distributed object middleware platform. But, this reference model has not a detail of implementation. Particularly it also has not congestion control scheme for improvement of network efficiency on the real network environment. It is a very important and difficult technical issue to provide the stream transmission platform with advanced congestion control scheme. In this paper, we propose an architecture of a distributed stream transport platform and deal with the design and implementation concept of our proposed platform. Also, we present a mechanism to improve streaming utilization by SRTP(Smart RTP). SRTP is our proposed TCP-Friendly scheme.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.339-347
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• 1996

object-oriented programming is used to develop next-generation telecommu- nications services running on the distributed processing environment. In order to test these services efficiently at the system-level during not only in the development phase but also in the operation phase, we define an embedded monitor service within the infrastructure to monitor the operation of the distributed programs, and describe a system-level test mechanism based on the monitor service. By separating the function of monitor server which monitors operations of objects and collects monitored data and that of tester which makes analysis and decides the sequence of test events, the invasive effect of monitoring can be minimized. At the same time, accurate diagnosis on the system can be achieve by exploiting the test mechanism. The mechanism, as a core component for the implementation of real-time fault-tol-erant systems, is applicable to general-purpose distributeded systems as well.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.9A
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• pp.1395-1404
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• 2000

In this paper, we propose a heuristic wavelength routing algorithm for IP datagrams in WDM (Wavelength-Division Multiplexing) networks which operates in a distributed manner, while most previous works have focused centralized algorithms. We first present an efficient construction method for a loose virtual topology with a connectivity property, which reserves a few wavelength to cope with dynamic traffic demands properly. This connectivity property assures that data from any source node could reach any destination node by hopping one or multiple lightpaths. We then develop a high-speed distributed wavelength routing algorithm adaptive to dynamic traffic demands by using such a loose virtual topology and derive the general bounds on average utilization in the distributed wavelength routing algorithms. Finally, we show that the performance of the proposed algorithms is better than that of the FSP(Fixed Shortest-Path) wavelength routing algorithms through simulation using the NSFNET[1] and a dynamic hot-spot traffic model, and that the algorithms is a good candidate in distributed WDM networks in terms of the blocking performance, the control traffic overhead, and the computation complexity.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.120-134
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• 2000

In this paper we present a Distributed Object oriented Virtual computing Environment, called DOVE which consists of autonomous distributed objects interacting with one another via method invocations based on a distributed object model. DOVE appears to a user logically as a single virtual computer for a set of heterogeneous hosts connected by a network as if objects in remote site reside in one virtual computer. By supporting efficient parallelism, heterogeneity, group communication, single global name service and fault-tolerance, it provides a transparent and easy-to-use programming environment for parallel applications. Efficient parallelism is supported by diverse remote method invocation, multiple method invocation for object group, multi-threaded architecture and synchronization schemes. Heterogeneity is achieved by automatic data arshalling and unmarshalling, and an easy-to-use and transparent programming environment is provided by stub and skeleton objects generated by DOVE IDL compiler, object life control and naming service of object manager. Autonomy of distributed objects, multi-layered architecture and decentralized approaches in hierarchical naming service and object management make DOVE more extensible and scalable. Also,fault tolerance is provided by fault detection in object using a timeout mechanism, and fault notification using asynchronous exception handling methods

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.192-200
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• 2001

본 논문은 조명 변화, 표정 변화, 부분적인 오클루전이 있는 얼굴 영상에 강인하고 적은 메모리양과 계산량을 갖는 효율적인 얼굴 인식 방법을 제안한다. SKKUface(Sungkyunkwan University face)라 명명한 이 방법은 먼저 훈련 영상에 PCA(principal component analysis)를 적용하여 차원을 줄일 때 구해지는 특징 벡터 공간에서 조명 변화, 얼굴 표정 변화 등에 해당되는 공간이 최대한 제외된 새로운 특징 벡터 공간을 생성한다. 이러한 특징 벡터 공간은 얼굴의 고유특징만을 주로 포함하는 벡터 공간이므로 이러한 벡터 공간에 Fisher linear discriminant를 적용하면 클래스간의 더욱 효과적인 분리가 이루어져 인식률을 획기적으로 향상시킨다. 또한, SKKUface 방법은 클래스간 분산(between-class covariance) 행렬과 클래스내 분산(within-class covariance) 행렬을 계산할 때 문제가 되는 메모리양과 계산 시간을 획기적으로 줄이는 방법을 제안하여 적용하였다. 제안된 SKKUface 방법의 얼굴 인식 성능을 평가하기 위하여 YALE, SKKU, ORL(Olivetti Research Laboratory) 얼굴 데이타베이스를 가지고 기존의 얼굴 인식 방법으로 널리 알려진 Eigenface 방법, Fisherface 방법과 함께 인식률을 비교 평가하였다. 실험 결과, 제안된 SKKUface 방법이 조명 변화, 부분적인 오클루전이 있는 얼굴 영상에 대해서 Eigenface 방법과 Fisherface 방법에 비해 인식률이 상당히 우수함을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.51-64
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• 1995

In distributed environments, the DB secure models have been being studied to include the multi-level mechanism which is effective to control access according to the level of the data value. These mechanisms have the problems. The first, it is impossible to maintain the global data which is protected in the multi-level mechanism. The second, the access and the relation of the data is not clear due to the access revocation between the local data and the global's. In this paper, we proposed the mechanism using shema. The mechanism doesn't have the access revocation, and provides the protection of the data and the control to the global data.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.33-49
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• 2003

Recently, there have been large storage demands for manipulating multimedia data. To solve the tremendous storage demands, one of the major researches is the SAN(Storage Area Network) that provides the local file requests directly from shared-disk storage and also eliminates the server bottlenecks to performance and availability. SAN also improve the network latency and bandwidth through new channel interface like FC(Fibre Channel). But to manipulate the efficient storage network like SAN, traditional local file system and distributed file system are not adaptable and also are lack of researches in terms of a metadata structure for large-scale inode object such as file and directory. In this paper, we describe the architecture and design issues of our shared-disk file system and provide the efficient bitmap for providing the well-formed block allocation in each host, extent-based semi flat structure for storing large-scale file data, and two-phase directory structure of using Extendible Hashing. Also we describe a detailed algorithm for implementing the file system's device driver in Linux Kernel and compare our file system with the general file system like EXT2 and shard disk file system like GFS in terms of file creation, directory creation and I/O rate.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.1-17
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• 2007

As XML is becoming a de facto standard for distribution and sharing of information, the need for an efficient yet secure access of XML data has become very important. To enforce the fine-level granularity requirement, authorization models for regulating access to XML documents use XPath which is a standard for specifying parts of XML data and a suitable language for both query processing. An access control environment for XML documents and some techniques to deal with authorization priorities and conflict resolution issues are proposed. Despite this, relatively little work has been done to enforce access controls particularly for XML databases in the case of query access. Developing an efficient mechanism for XML databases to control query-based access is therefore the central theme of this paper. This work is a proposal for an efficient yet secure XML access control system. The basic idea utilized is that a user query interaction with only necessary access control rules is modified to an alternative form which is guaranteed to have no access violations using tree-aware metadata of XML schemes and set operators supported by XPath 2.0. The scheme can be applied to any XML database management system and has several advantages over other suggested schemes. These include implementation easiness, small execution time overhead, fine-grained controls, and safe and correct query modification. The experimental results clearly demonstrate the efficiency of the approach.