• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.215-222
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• 2013

NAND flash memory-based Solid State Drives (SSD) have lots of merits compared to traditional hard disk drives (HDD). However, random write in SSD is still far slower than sequential read/write and random read. There are two independent approaches to resolve this problem: 1) using part of the flash memory blocks as log blocks, and 2) using internal write buffer (DRAM or Non-Volatile RAM) in SSD. While log blocks are managed by the Flash Translation Layer (FTL), write buffer management has been treated separately from FTL. Write buffer management schemes did not use the exact status of log blocks and log block management schemes in FTL did not consider the behavior of write buffer management scheme. In this paper, we first show that log blocks and write buffer have a tight relationship to each other, which necessitates integrated management of both of them. Since log blocks also can be viewed as another type of write buffer, we can manage both of them as an integrated write buffer. Then we provide three design criteria for the integrated write buffer management scheme which can be very useful to SSD firmware designers.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.51-56
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• 2009

Flash memory has rapidly deployed as data storage. However, the flash memory has a major disadvantage that recorded data cannot be dynamically overwritten. In order to solve this "erase-before-write" problem, the log block buffer scheme used Flash memory file system. however, the current managements of the log buffer, in case random write pattern, BAST technique have problem of frequent merge operation, but FAST technique don't consider merge operation by frequently updated data. Previous methods not consider merge operation cost and frequently updated data. In this paper, we propose a new log buffer management scheme, called JBB. Our proposed method evaluates the worth of the merge of log blocks, so we conducts the merge operation between infrequently updated data and its data blocks, and postpone the merge operation between frequently updated data and its data blocks. Through the method, we prevent the unnecessary merge operations, reduce the number of the erase operation, and improve the utilization of the flash memory storage. We show the superiority of our proposed method through the performance evaluation with BAST and FAST.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.68-77
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a new log buffer management scheme considering the accessibility of the data. Our proposed scheme evaluates the worth of the merge of log blocks. It conducts the merge operations between infrequently updated data and the data blocks and postpones as much as possible the merge operations between frequently updated data and the data blocks. As a result, the proposed method prevents the unnecessary merge operations, reduces the number of the erase operations, and improves the utilization of the flash memory storage. In order to show the superiority of the proposed scheme, we compare it with BAST and FAST. It is shown through performance evaluation that the proposed method achieves about 25% and 65% performance improvements over BAST and FAST on average in terms of the number of the erase operations.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.118-120
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• 2001

분산 DBMS에 대한 연추는 디스크에 데이타가 저장되어 있는 환경을 가정한 관계 DBMS에서 주로 진행되어 왔다. 디스크에 데이타가 저장되어 있다고 가정하는 시스템은 질의 최적화, 버퍼 관리기, 인덱스관리 기법 등 여러 가지 측면에서 주기억 장치 DBMS와 크게 다르기 때문에 이런 분산 DBMS에서 연구된 결과들을 그대로 주기억장치 상주 DBMS의 분산 시스템에 적용하기에는 어려움이 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 주기억장치 상주 중앙 집중형 DBMS를 분산 시스템으로 확장할 때 고려해야 한 여러 문제 중 캐시의 유무에 따른 카탈로그의 구조에 대해 살펴보고 시뮬레이션을 통해 카탈로그 관리기법에 대한 성능을 평가한다. 카탈로그 관리 기법의 성능평가 대상으로는 사이트의 자치성을 고려하여 분할된 카탈로그 방식을 택하였다. 실험의 결과는 캐시를 이용하는 카탈로그가 캐시를 사용하지 않는 카탈로그보다 좋은 성능을 나타냈다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.90-102
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• 2010

Flash memory has been widely used as an important storage device for consumer electronics. For the flash memory-based storage systems, FTL (Flash Translation Layer) is used to handle the mapping between a logical page address and a physical page address. Especially, log buffer-based FTLs provide a good performance with small-sized mapping information. In designing the log buffer-based FTL, one important factor is to determine the mapping structure between data blocks and log blocks, called associativity. While previous works use static associativity fixed at the design time, we propose a new log block mapping scheme which adjusts associativity based on the run-time workload. Our proposed scheme improves the I/O performance about 5~16% compared to the static scheme by adjusting the associativity to provide the best performance.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2011.06c
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• pp.88-91
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• 2011

NAND 플래시 메모리는 저전력과 빠른 접근 속도의 특징 때문에 차세대 저장장치로 주목 받고 있다. 특히 플래시 메모리로 만들어진 SSD(solid state disk)는 인터페이스가 기존의 하드디스크와 동일하고 대용량화 되고 있기 때문에 가까운 미래에 다양한 저장시스템의 저장장치로 사용될 것으로 예상된다. 그러나 NAND 플래시메모리 기반 저장장치는 쓰기 전 소거 구조와 같은 독특한 하드웨어 특징을 가지고 있기 때문에 특정 지역에 반복적인 쓰기 요청을 발생하는 B트리를 구축하는 것은 심각한 성능저하를 야기 할 것이다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 버퍼를 이용하여 B트리 구축 성능을 개선한 방법들이 제안되었다. 그러나 이러한 기법들은 갑작스러운 전원 차단 시 버퍼에 유지하고 있던 데이터를 모두 유실하기 때문에 고장회복을 위한 추가적인 방법이 필요하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 버퍼를 이용한 방법 중 IBSF기법을 기반으로 NAND 플래시 메모리 기반 저장장치에서 고성능의B트리 구축 방법뿐만 아니라 전원 차단시 효율적인 고장회복을 할 수 있는 기법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 기법은 B트리 변경시 변경 된 정보를 로그에 저장하여 관리한다. 또한 루트노드가 변경될 때 검사점(checkpoint)을 수행한다. 마지막으로 다양한 실험을 통하여 본 논문의 고장회복 성능을 보여준다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.463-475
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• 2009

Flash memory is suitable for real time systems because of its consistent performance for random access, low power consumption and shock resistance. However, flash memory needs blocking time to perform a garbage collection to reclaim invalidated pages. Moreover, the worst-case garbage collection time is significantly longer than the best-case garbage collection time. In this paper, we propose a FTL (Flash Translation Layer) mapping scheme called KAST (K-Associative Sector Translation). In the KAST scheme, user can control the maximum association of the log block to limit the worst-case garbage collection time. Performance evaluation using simulation shows that not only KAST completes the garbage collection within the specified time but also provides about 10~15% better average performance than existing FTL schemes.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.15A no.6
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• pp.335-344
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• 2008

We propose an adaptive garbage collection technique for hybrid flash memory which has both SLC and MLC. Since SLC area is fast and MLC area has low cost, the proposed scheme utilizes the SLC area as log buffer and the MLC area as data block. Considering the high write cost of MLC flash, the garbage collection for the SLC log buffer moves a page into the MLC data block only when the page is cold or the page migration invokes a small cost. The other pages are moved within the SLC log buffer. Also it adjusts the parameter values which determine the operation of garbage collection adaptively considering I/O pattern. From the experiments, we can know that the proposed scheme provides better performance compared with the previous flash management schemes for the hybrid flash and finds the parameter values of garbage collection close to the optimal values.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.439-449
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• 2005

Distributed main memory database management systems (DMM-DBMSs) store the database in main memories of the participating sites. They provide high performance through fast access to the local databases and high speed communication among the sites. Recently, a lot of research results on DMM- DBMSs has been reported. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no known research result on the performance of the catalog management schemes for DMM-DBMSs. In this work, we evaluated the performance of the partitioned catalog management schemes through experimental analysis. First, we classified the partitioned catalog management schemes into three categories : Partitioned Catalogs Without Caching (PCWC), Partitioned Catalogs With Incremental Caching (PCWIC), and Partitioned Catalogs With Full Caching (PCWFC). Experiments were conducted by varying the number of sites, the number of terminals per site, buffer size, write query ratio, and local query ratio. Experiments show that PCWFC outperforms the other two schemes in all cases. It also means that the performance of PCWIC gradually increases as time goes by. It should be noted that PCWFC does not guarantee high performance for disk-based distributed DBMSs in cases when the workload of individual site is high, catalog write ratio is high, or remote data objects are accessed very frequently. Main reason that PCWFC outperforms for DMM-DBMSs is that query compilation and remote catalog access can be done in a very high speed, even when the catalogs of the remote data objects are frequently updated.