• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.32-40
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• 2007

A mobile device accesses large-sized data in object-based IP storage as an object unit over IP network. It relies heavily on a WLAN device, which has been known as one of the major power consumers. This paper designs and implements low-power object-based IP storage for mobile devices using an efficient WLAN power control. The proposed WLAN power control exploits prefetch buffer to maximize the idleness for incoming network traffic and controls available WLAN power modes to minimize the power consumption. Our experimental results reveal that the proposed WLAN control can save the total power consumption in a PXA270-based mobile device about 9% while playing the multimedia contents through an object-based IP storage device

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.16A no.5
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• pp.357-368
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• 2009

Mobile IP storage has been proposed to overcome storage limitation in the flash memory and hard disks. It provides almost capacity-free space for mobile devices over wireless IP networks. However, battery lifetime of the mobile devices is reduced rapidly because of power consumption with continuous use of a WLAN device when multimedia contents are being streamed through the mobile IP storage. This paper proposes an energy-efficient WLAN device power control technique for streaming multimedia contents with the mobile IP storage. The proposed technique consists of a prefetch buffer input/output module, a WLAN device power control module, and a reconfigurable prefetch buffer module. Besides, it adaptively determines the size of the prefetch buffer according to a quality of the multimedia contents, and it dynamically controls the power mode of the WLAN device on the basis of power on-off operations while streaming the multimedia contents. We evaluate the performance of the proposed technique on a PXA270-based mobile device that employs the embedded linux 2.6.11, Intel iSCSI reference codes, and a WLAN device. Extensive experiments reveal that the proposed technique can save the energy consumption of the WLAN device up to 8.5 times with QVGA multimedia contents, as compared with no power control.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.655-658
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 저전력 모바일 IP 스토리지를 위한 재구성 가능 선반입 버퍼 기반의 WLAN 전력제어 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법은 주어진 모바일 IP 스토리지에 있는 멀티미디어 컨텐츠의 품질에 따라 선반입 버퍼의 크기를 자동적으로 결정하고 멀티미디어 컨텐츠가 실행되는 동안 On-Off 동작을 기반으로 WLAN 전력을 동적으로 제어한다. 제안된 기법을 PXA270 기반 모바일 단말, 임베디드 리눅스 2.6.11, 인텔 iSCSI 참조 코드, 그리고 Cisco Aironet 350 PCMCIA WLAN 카드를 사용하여 구현하고 성능을 평가한 결과 모바일 단말의 소모전력이 1.5배 이상 개선됨을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.955-957
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• 2007

본 연구에서는 모바일 기기의 중요한 성능 요소 중 하나인 스토리지에 초점을 맞추고 멀티미디어 콘텐츠 재생 성능 향상을 위한 시스템을 제안한다. 이를 위해 모바일 기기에서 사용 가능한 여러 스토리지 기술 중 최신 기술인 객체기반 IP 스토리지 시스템을 기반으로 모바일 단말 측에 캐시 및 선반입(prefech) 기능을 적용하여 네트워크를 사용하는 입출력으로 인한 재생 시스템의 성능저하를 보완한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.267-276
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• 2009

Nowadays, numerous of valuable internet services are available not only for personal computer but also for mobile appliances in wireless network environment. Therefore, as the amount of contents is increased for those services, the storage limitation on mobile devices has became a significant issue. In this paper, we present a new block-level storage network protocol, iATA (Internet Advanced Technology Attachment) as a solution to the above problem. iATA is designed to transport ATA block-level data and command over the ubiquitous TCP/IP network. With iATA, a mobile appliance is able to access and control the ATA storage devices natively through network from anywhere and at anytime as if the storage devices is attached locally. We describe the concepts, design and diverse consideration of iATA protocol. Based on the benchmark experiments and application exploitation, we strongly believe that iATA as a light-weight protocol is efficient and cost-effective to be used as a storage network protocol on a resource limited device that utilizes common-off-the-shelf storage hardware and existing IP infrastructure.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.305-311
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• 2010

iATA (Internet Advanced Technology Attachment) is a block-level protocol developed to transfer ATA commands over TCP/IP network, as an alternative network storage solution to address insufficient storage problem in mobile devices. This paper employs RAID5 distributed storage servers concept into iATA, in which the idea behind is to combine several machines with relatively inexpensive disk drives into a server array that works as a single virtual storage device, thus increasing the reliability and speed of operations. In the case of one machine failed, the server array will not destroy immediately but able to function in a degradation mode. Meanwhile, information can be easily recovered by using boolean exclusive OR (XOR) logical function with the bit information on the remaining machines. We perform I/O measurement and benchmark tool result indicates that additional fault tolerance feature does not delay read/write operations with reasonable file size ranged in 4KB-2MB, yet higher data integrity objective is achieved.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10a
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• pp.381-384
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• 2006

휴대폰, PMP, PDA와 같은 모바일 기기의 사용은 일상이 되었고 최근 이러한 기기들 간의 컨버전스화가 활발히 진행 중이다. 일반적으로 모바일 기기는 제한적인 배터리를 장착하고 있기 때문에 저전력성은 매우 중요한 기능 중의 하나로 간주되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 모바일 기기에 사용할 수 있는 다양한 스토리지 환경에서 대해서 논하고, 동영상 재생 시에 각 장치에서 소모전력을 측정하고 그 패턴을 분석한다. NAND 플래시를 이용할 경우에 Idle 상태에 비해서 33%이상의 추가 전력소모가 발생하였으며, HDD, WLAN을 이용한 NFS기반의 네트워크 스토리지, 그리고 본 연구를 통해 처음 구현된 모바일 기기용 객체기반 IP 스토리지의 경우 NAND 플래시에 비해서 약 3배 이상의 높은 전력이 소모됨을 볼 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.06b
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• pp.441-444
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 객체기반 IP 스토리지를 이용하여 모바일 기기에서 멀티미디어 콘텐츠 재생에 적합한 저전력 객체기반 모바일 스토리지 시스템 구조를 제안한다. 멀티미디어 콘텐츠의 재생 성능을 높이기 위해 모바일 단말 측 OSD 계층에 버퍼 캐시(buffer cache)와 선반입(prefetch) 기능을 추가한다. 그리고 모바일 단말의 WLAN 전력제어를 통하여 WLAN이 가능한 한 오랜 시간 동안 Sleep 상태 또는 Power Off 상태에 있을 수 있도록 하여 전력의 소비를 줄인다. 본 연구에서는 캐시 및 선반입 기능을 위해 버퍼 캐시관리자(buffer cache manager)와 선반입 관리자(prefetch manager)를 설계하였고, WLAN 전력관리 기능을 위해 WLAN 관리자(WLAN manager)를 설계하였다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.74-82
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• 2007

IPv6 is the internet protocol for next generation which can solve the problem of IPv4 protocol. Mobile IPv6 efficiently provides the mobility for mobile devices holding the properties of IPv6. iSCSI(Internet Small Computer System Interface) is a block-oriented storage access protocol that enables a user to recognize a remote storage as their own local block device through general TCP/IP networks. Since iSCSI uses a standard Ethernet switch and router for this kind of access, it can not only be applized to Ethernet technologies, but can also be used to create a storage networking system without any distance restrictions that can equally be applied to a wireless network environment. Accordingly, this paper presents an alternative approach to overcome the limited storage space of mobile devices based on the IPv6 iSCSI initiator driver which was originally designed for wired networks. Also, this paper describes about the implementation and performance analysis of mobile education service system using virtual storage devices in IPv6 wireless networks.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.6A
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• pp.517-525
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• 2005

iSCSI(Internet Small Computer System Interface) is a block-oriented storage access protocol that enables a user to recognize a remote storage as their own local block device through general TCP/IP networks. Since iSCSI uses a standard ethernet switch and router for this kind of access, it can not only be applied to ethernet technologies, but can also be used to create a storage networking system without any distance restrictions that can equally be applied to a wireless network environment. Accordingly, focusing on this applicability, this paper presents an alternative approach to overcome the limited storage space of mobile devices based on the iSCSI initiator driver, which was originally designed for wired networks. Additionally, its potential with a wireless network is also evaluated.