• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2011.06b
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• pp.434-437
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• 2011

낸드 플래시 메모리는 하드 디스크와는 다른 여러가지 특성 때문에 논리 주소를 불러 주소를 변환해 주는 주소 변환 계층(FTL)이 필요하다. 최근에 고성능의 저장 장치를 제공하기 위해서 페이지 수준의 주소 변환 기법이 많이 사용되고 있는 데, 이 기법은 매핑 정보가 너무 커서 메모리에서 매핑 정보를 관리하기에는 힘들다는 문제와 데이터의 접근 지역성을 잘 활용하지 못하는 문제가 있다. 본 논문에서는 스토리지의 주소 공간을 유닛이라는 단위로 분리하여 페이지 수준의 주소변환을 사용함으로써 매핑 정보를 크기를 줄이고 또한 접근 지역성을 활용하여 가비지 컬렉션 오버해드를 줄이는 유닛 레벨 주소 변환 기법을 제시한다. 실험결과 제시한 기법은 페이지 매핑 기법보다 랜덤 접근 패턴에서 가비지 컬렉션 오버해드를 40% 감소시켰으며 매핑 데이터 량도 38% 감소시켰다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.8
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• pp.23-30
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• 2010

Flash memory is non-volatile and can retain data even after system is powered off. Besides, it has many other features such as fast access speed, low power consumption, attractive shock resistance, small size, and light-weight. As its price decreases and capacity increases, the flash memory is expected to be widely used in consumer electronics, embedded systems, and mobile devices. Flash storage systems generally adopt a software layer, called FTL. In this research, we proposed a new FTL mechanism for overcoming the major drawback of conventional block mapping algorithm. In addition to the block mapping table, a index block mapping table with a small size is used to indicate sector location. The proposed indexed block mapping algorithm by adding a small size. By the simulation result, the proposed FTL provides an enhanced speed than a conventional hybrid mapping algorithm by around 45% in average, and the requirement of mapping memory is also reduced by around 12%.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.215-225
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• 2010

The NAND flash memory based SSDs are considered to replace the existing HDDs. To maximize the I/O performance, SSD is composed of several NAND flash memories in parallel. However, to adopt the hybrid mapping scheme in SSD may cause degradation of the I/O performance. In this paper, we propose a new mapping scheme for the SSD called WADPM. WADPM loads only necessary mapping information into RAM and dynamically adjusts the size of mapping information in the RAM. So, WADPM avoids the shortcoming of page-level mapping scheme that requires too large mapping table. Performance evaluation using simulations shows that I/O performance of WADPM is 3.5 times better than the hybrid-mapping scheme and maximum size of mapping table of WADPM is about 50% in comparison with the page-level mapping scheme.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.43 no.5
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• pp.524-530
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• 2016

The desire to access data faster and the growth of next-generation memories such as non-volatile memories, contribute to the development of research on memory file systems. It is recommended that memory mapped file I/O, which has less overhead than read-write I/O, is utilized in a high-performance memory file system. Memory mapped file I/O, however, brings a page table overhead, which becomes one of the big overheads that needs to be resolved in the entire file I/O performance. We find that same overheads occur unnecessarily, because a page table of a file is removed whenever a file is opened after being closed. To remove the duplicated overhead, we propose the mapping cache, a technique that does not delete a page table of a file but saves the page table to be reused when the mapping of the file is released. We demonstrate that mapping cache improves the performance of traditional file I/O by 2.8x and web server performance by 12%.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.3
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• pp.78-87
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• 2013

NAND flash memory has been widely used as a storage medium in mobile devices, PCs, and workstations due to its advantages such as low power consumption, high performance, and random accessability compared to a hard disk drive. However, NAND flash cannot support in-place update so that it is mandatory to erase the entire block before overwriting the corresponding page. In order to overcome this drawback, flash storages need a software support, named Flash Translation Layer. However, as the high performance mass NAND flash memory is getting widely used, the size of mapping tables is increasing more than the limited DRAM size. In this paper, we propose an adaptive mapping information caching algorithm based on page mapping to solve this DRAM space shortage problem. Our algorithm uses a mapping information caching scheme which minimize the flash memory access frequency based on the analysis of several workloads. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can increase the performance by up to 70% comparing with the previous mapping information caching algorithm.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.11-18
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• 2021

The flash translation layer(FTL) of SSD maps the logical page number requested from the host to the actual recorded flash memory page number. It is very important to reduce the amount of RAM used to manage the mapping information. In the existing demand-based FTLs, two-level method is applied in which mapping information is also recorded in flash memory pages and only their addresses are managed as a table in RAM. As the capacities of SSDs are growing to tens of terabytes, the amount of RAM for mapping table becomes too large. In this paper, ML-FTL was proposed as a method of managing mapping information in three levels to reduce the amount of RAM required drastically. From an evaluation, the increase in overhead was minimal compared to the conventional two-level method by properly utilizing cache.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.828-831
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• 2008

플래시 메모리(Flash Memory) 기술이 빠르게 발전하면서, 플래시 메모리 기반의 저장 장치가 개인용 컴퓨터나 엔터프라이즈 서버 시스템과 같은 시스템에 2차적인 저장 장치로써 사용가능해지고 있다. FTL(Flash Translation Layer)의 기본적인 기능은 플래시 메모리의 논리 주소를 물리 주소로 바꾸는 것임에도 불구하고, FTL의 효율적인 알고리즘은 성능과 수명에 상당한 효과를 가지고 있다. 이 논문에서는 MP3 플레이어와 디지털 카메라, SSDs(Solid-State Disk)와 같은 낸드 플래시 메모리(NAND Flash Memory) 기반의 어플리케이션을 위한 N : N+K 매핑을 사용하는 새로운 FTL 설계를 제안한다. 성능에 영향을 미치는 매개변수들을 분류하여, 다양한 워크로드 분석을 기반으로 FTL을 조사했다. 우리가 제안하는 FTL을 가지고, 낸드 플래시 어플리케이션 가동에 따라 어떤 매개변수가 최대 성능을 낼 수 있는지 알아낼 수 있고, 그 변수들을 유연하게 조정하여 성능을 더 향상시킬 수 있다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.17D no.6
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• pp.383-394
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• 2010

Flash memory based SSDs are currently being considered as a promising candidate for replacing hard disks due to several superior features such as shorter access time, lower power consumption and better shock resistance. However, SSDs have different characteristics from hard disk such as difference of unit and time for read, write and erase operation and impossibility for over-writing. Because of these reasons, SSDs have disadvantages on hard disk based systems, so FTL(Flash Translation Layer) is designed to increase SSDs' efficiency. In this paper, we propose an advanced logical address mapping method for increasing SSDs' performance, which is named HAMM(Hybrid Address Mapping Method). HAMM addresses drawbacks of previous block-mapping method and super-block-mapping method and takes advantages of them. We experimented our method on our own SSDs simulator. In the experiments, we confirmed that HAMM uses storage area more efficiently than super-block-mapping method, given the same buffer size. In addition, HAMM used smaller memory than block-mapping method to construct mapping table, demonstrating almost same performance.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2011.06a
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• pp.547-550
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• 2011

플래시 메모리는 낮은 전력 소비와 높은 성능으로 인해 휴대용 기기에 널리 사용되고 있다. FTL은 플래시 내 자료를 관리하는 소프트웨어 계층으로 플래시 전체의 성능에 영향을 끼친다. 그 중 페이지 레벨 매핑 기법을 적용한 FTL은 유연성이 높고 속도가 빠르나 주소 변환 테이블의 크기가 큰 단점이 있다. 이를 해결하기 위해 자주 접근되는 영역의 매핑 주소만을 매핑 테이블 캐시에 올려놓는 Demand-based FTL(DFTL)이 제안되었다. DFTL 에서는 CMT(Cache Mapping Table)의 참조율이 떨어지는 경우 빈번한 플래시 메모리 접근 오버헤드가 발생하게 된다. 이러한 문제는 흔히 발생하는 일반적인 순차 접근에서조차 문제가 된다. 이에 본 논문에서는 저장 장치의 접근 패턴을 예측하여 CMT의 참조 엔트리를 미리 읽어오는 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법은 저장 장치 접근 패턴의 순차성을 판단하여 연속된 매핑 주소를 미리 CMT에 올려놓고, 읽어오는 매핑 주소 엔트리의 양은 동적으로 관리한다. 추가적으로 CMT에서 발생하는 스래싱(thrashing) 을 파악하기 위해 쫓겨나는 희생 엔트리의 접근 여부를 분석하여 이를 활용하였다. 실험 결과에서 본 기법은 기존의 DFTL에 비해 약간의 공간 오버헤드와 함께 평균 50% 증가한 참조율을 보였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.5
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• pp.66-73
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• 2015

IFFT is one of the key components in OFDM-based communication systems. In this paper, we propose a new memory efficient IFFT design method for OFDM-based communication systems, based on a mapping of three IFFT input signals which consist of modulated data, pilot and null signals. The proposed method focuses on reducing the memory size in the bit-reversal block which requires the largest number of memory cells in IFFT architectures. To reduce the memory size, we propose a selection mapping method based on decimation-in-time (DIT) algorithm. It is shown that the proposed method achieves a memory reduction of about 50% compared to conventional methods.