• Journal of KIISE
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• v.44 no.7
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• pp.710-718
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• 2017

As graphs are becoming increasingly large, the costs for storing and managing data are increasing continuously. Shortest path discovery over a large graph requires long running time due to frequent disk I/Os and high complexity of the graph data. Recently, graph summarization techniques have been studied, which reduce the size of graph data and disk I/Os by representing highly dense subgraphs as a single super-node. Decompressing should be minimized for efficient shortest path discovery over the summarized graph. In this paper, we analyze the decompression performance of a summarized graph and propose an approximate technique that discovers the shortest path quickly with a minimum error ratio. We also propose an exact technique that efficiently discovered the shortest path by exploiting an index built on paths containing super-nodes. In our experiments, we showed that the proposed technique based on the summarized graph can reduce the running time by up to 70% compared with the existing techniques performed on the original graph.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.271-281
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• 2006

Recently the need for Location-Based Service (LBS) has increased due to the development and widespread use of the mobile devices (e.g., PDAs, cellular phones, labtop computers, GPS, and RFID etc). The core technology of LBS is a moving-objects database that stores and manages the positions of moving objects. To search for information quickly, the database needs to contain an index that supports both real-time position tracking and management of large numbers of updates. As a result, the index requires a structure operating in the main memory for real-time processing and requires a technique to migrate part of the index from the main memory to disk storage (or from disk storage to the main memory) to manage large volumes of data. To satisfy these requirements, this paper suggests a unified index scheme unifying the main memory and the disk as well as migration policies for migrating part of the index from the memory to the disk during a restriction in memory space. Migration policy determines a group of nodes, called the migration subtree, and migrates the group as a unit to reduce disk I/O. This method takes advantage of bulk operations and dynamic clustering. The unified index is created by applying various migration policies. This paper measures and compares the performance of the migration policies using experimental evaluation.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.44-57
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• 2002

Multiple spatial queries are defined as two or more spatial range queries to be executed at the same time. The primary processing of internet-based map services is to simultaneously execute multiple spatial queries. To improve the throughput of multiple queries, the time of disk I/O in processing spatial queries significantly should be reduced. The declustering scheme of a spatial dataset of the MIMD architecture cannot decrease the disk I/O time because of random seeks for processing multiple queries. This thesis presents query scheduling strategies to ease the problem of inter-query random seeks. Query scheduling is achieved by dynamically re-ordering the priority of the queued spatial queries. The re-ordering of multiple queries is based on the inter-query spatial relationship and the latency of query processing. The performance test shows that the time of multiple query processing with query scheduling can be significantly reduced by easing inter-query random seeks as a consequence of enhanced hit ratio of disk cache.

• Polymer(Korea)
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.669-676
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• 2013

Demineralized bone particle (DBP) is a biomaterial used widely in the field of tissue engineering. In this study, in order to study the effect of DBP/poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) scaffold on disc regeneration in vivo environment, we prepared the porous DBP/PLGA hybrid scaffold. Disc defect was induced by removing the nucleus pulposus tissue after incision the annulus fibrosus tissue in half and scaffolds were transplanted. After 1, 2 and 3 months later, the extracted discs were confirmed by collagen synthesis and glycosaminoglycan (sGAG). We conducted histology (H&E, Safranin-O, Alcian blue, Type I Collagen, Type II Collagen). From the results, it was confirmed that collagen and sGAG content were high in DBP/PLGA scaffold, and the regeneration of intervertebral disc was possible.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.913-917
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• 2009

Flash memories have asymmetric I/O costs for read and write in terms of latency and energy consumption. However, the ratio of these costs is dependent on the type of storage. Moreover, it is becoming more common to use two flash memories on a system as an internal memory and an external memory card. For this reason, buffer cache replacement algorithms should consider I/O costs of device as well as possibility of reference. This paper presents WWCLOCK(Write-Weighted CLOCK) algorithm which directly uses I/O costs of devices along with recency and frequency of cache blocks to selecting a victim to evict from the buffer cache. WWCLOCK can be used for wide range of storage devices with different I/O cost and for systems that are using two or more memory devices at the same time. In addition to this, it has low time and space complexity comparable to CLOCK algorithm. Trace-driven simulations show that the proposed algorithm reduces the total I/O time compared with LRU by 36.2% on average.

• 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
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• v.43 no.4
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• pp.411-418
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• 2016

In recent times, NAND flash memory has become widely used as secondary storage for computing devices. Accordingly, to take advantage of NAND flash memory, new file systems have been actively studied and proposed. The performance of these file systems is generally measured with benchmark tools. However, since benchmark tools are executed by software simulation methods, many researchers get non-uniform benchmark results depending on the system environments. In this paper, we use Filebench, one of the most popular and representative benchmark tools, to analyze benchmark results and study the reasons why the benchmark result variations occur. Our experimental results show the differences in benchmark results depending on the system environments. In addition, this study substantiates the fact that system performance is affected mainly by background I/O requests and fsync operations.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10e
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• pp.184-186
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• 2002

대규모 웹 캐시 서버의 자원 이용도는 네트워크와 디스크 I／O 대기 시간에 주로 의존하고 또한 작업 부하 패턴에 있어 네트웍 사용이 폭주하는 시간과 새벽과 같은 한가한 시간간의 변동성이 심하다. 따라서, 한정된 자원범위에서 최상의 서비스를 제공키위해서는 절정기 동안 자원 이용도를 낮추고 이들 작업부하를 비절정기 때에 나누어 수행토록 함으로써 자원 활용도를 최대로 끌어 올리자는데, 연구의 목적이 있다 이를 위해 비절정기 동안 캐시압축 기법을 이용하여 디스크 입출력 작업을 미래예측 기법은 어느 점에서의 실제 작업 세트가 작았다는 것과 페이지 재사용 패턴의 정확한 예측은 물리적 메모리 크기의 캐시에서 높은 히트율을 생산할 것이라는 점을 보여주었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.4-6
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• 2004

클러스터 컴퓨터에서 접속된 모든 노드들의 디스크들을 통합 사용하기 위한 SIOS의 구현은 사용자 레벨과 파일 시스템 레벨, 그리고 디바이스 드라이버 레벨로 분류할 수 있다. 본 연구에서 제안하는 방법은 현재 공개되어 있는 소프트웨어 라이브러리만을 이용하여 리눅스 클러스터에서 SIOS를 구현하는 방법으로서, 확장 네트워크 블록 디바이스(ENBD: Enhanced Network Block Device)를 이용한 디바이스 드라이버 레벨의 하위 계층과 S/W RAID 및 NFS를 이용한 파일 시스템 레벨의 상위 계층으로 구성된다. 이 방법의 주요 장점은 현재 공개되어 있는 소프트웨어 라이브러리를 이용하기 때문에 구현이 용이하고 비용이 들지 않는다는 점이다. 그리고 하위 계층으로서 디바이스 드라이버 레벨의 ENBD를 이용하기 때문에 파일 시스템을 변경하지 않기 때문에 이전의 응용 프로그램에 대한 호환성이 높다. 또한, 상위 계층에서는 파일 시스템 레벨의 S/W RAID와 NFS를 이용함에 따라 디스크 배열 방식의 조정이 비교적 자유롭다. 또 다른 장점은 하위 계층과 상위 계층이 서로 독립적이기 때문에, 클러스터의 사용 목적에 따라 각 계층을 다양한 방법으로 변경할 수 있다는 것이다. Bonnie 벤치마크를 이용한 성능 측정 결과에 따르면, ENBD를 이용하여 RAID-5로 구성한 경우에 오버헤드가 높은 NFS를 사용했음에도 불구하고 비용이 많이 드는 다른 방법과 대등한 성능을 보였으며, 부분적으로는 더 높은 성능과 확장성을 가지는 것으로 나타났다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.462-466
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• 2010

A new buffer cache management scheme that aims at reducing power consumption in mixed HDD and NAND flash memory storage systems is presented. The proposed scheme reduces power consumption by considering different energy-consumption rate of storage devices, I/O operation type (read or write), and reference potential of cached blocks in terms of both recency and frequency. Simulation shows that the proposed scheme reduces power consumption by 18.0% on average and up to 58.9%.