• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.26 no.9
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• pp.1166-1176
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• 1999

연속 매체, 특히 비디오 데이타에 대한 일반 사용자 연산에는 재생뿐만 아니라 임의 속도 탐색 연산, 정지 연산, 그리고 그 외 다양한 연산이 있다. 이 연산 중에서 원하는 화면을 빨리 찾는 데에 유용한 고속 전진(FF: fast-forward)과 고속 후진(FB: fast-backward)은 재생 연산과는 달리 비순차적인 디스크 접근을 요구한다. 이러한 경우에 디스크 부하가 균등하지 않으면 일부 디스크에 접근이 편중되어 서비스 품질이 떨어진다. 본 논문에서는 디스크 배열을 이용한 저장 시스템에서 디스크 접근을 고르게 분산시키기 위하여 '소수 라운드 로빈(PRR: Prime Round Robin)' 방식으로 연속 매체를 디스크에 배치하는 기법에서 문제가 됐던 낭비된 디스크 저장 공간을 신뢰도 향상을 위해서 사용하는 '그룹화된 패리티를 갖는 소수 라운드 로빈(PRRgp: PRR with Grouped Parities)' 방식을 제안한다. 이 기법은 PRR 기법처럼 임의 속도 검색 연산에 있어서 디스크 배열을 구성하는 모든 디스크의 부하를 균등하게 할뿐만 아니라 낭비됐던 디스크 저장 공간에 신뢰도를 높이기 위한 패리티 정보를 저장함으로서 신뢰도를 향상시킬 수 있다. 신뢰도 모델링 방법으로 조합 모델과 마르코프 모델을 이용해서 결함발생율과 결함복구율을 고려한 신뢰도를 산출하고 비교.분석한다. PRR 기법으로 연속 매체를 저장하고 낭비되는 공간에 패리티 정보를 저장할 경우에 동시에 두 개 이상의 결함 발생 시에 그 결함으로부터 복구가 불가능하지만 PRRgp 기법에서는 약 30% 이상의경우에 대해서 동시에 두 개의 결함 발생 시에 저장한 패리티 정보를 이용한 복구가 가능할 뿐만 아니라 패리티 그룹의 수가 두 개 이상인 경우에는 두 개 이상의 결함에 대해서도 복구가 가능하다.Abstract End-user operations on continuous media (say video data) consist of arbitrary-rate search, pause, and others as well as normal-rate play. FF(fast-forward) / FB(fast-backward) among those operations are desirable to find out the scene of interest but they require non-sequential access of disks. When accesses are clustered to several disks without considering load balance, high quality services in playback may not be available. In this paper, we propose a new disk placement scheme, called PRRgp(Prime Round Robin with Grouped Parities), with enhanced reliability by using the wasted disk storage space in an old one(PRR: Prime Round Robin), in which continuous media are placed on a disk array based storage systems to distribute disk accesses uniformly. The PRRgp can not only achieve load balance of disks consisting of a disk array under arbitrary-rate search like PRR, but also improve reliability by storing parity information on the wasted disk space appropriately. We use combinatorial and Markov models to evaluate the reliability for a disk array and to analyze the results. When continuous media like PRR are placed and parity information on the wasted disk space is stored, we cannot tolerate more than two simultaneous faults. But they can be recovered by using stored parity information for about 30 percent as a whole in case of PRRgp presented in this paper. In addition, more than two faults can be tolerated in case there are more than two parity groups.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.8D no.4
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• pp.347-360
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• 2001

The most expensive spatial operation in spatial databases is a spatial join which computes a combined table of which tuple consists of two tuples of the two tables satisfying a spatial predicate. Although the execution time of sequential processing of a spatial join has been so far considerably improved, the response time is not tolerable because of not meeting the requirements of interactive users. It is usually appropriate to use parallel processing to improve the performance of spatial join processing. However, as the number of processors increases, the efficiency of each processor decreases rapidly because of the disk bottleneck and the overhead of message passing. This paper proposes the method of task allocation to soften the disk bottleneck caused by accessing the shared disk at the same time, and to minimize message passing among processors. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed method in terms of the number of disk accesses and message passing, we conduct experiments on the two kinds of parallel spatial join algorithms. The experimental tests on the MIMD parallel machine with shared disks show that the proposed semi-dynamic task allocation method outperforms the static and dynamic task allocation methods.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.625-628
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• 2000

선반입 및 캐슁에 관한 기법은 병렬 파일 시스템 등의 저장 장치의 입출력 성능을 개선하는 효과적인 방법으로써 현재까지 여러 가지 연구가 많이 이루어져 왔다. 특히 선반입 기법은 응용프로그램에서 사용할 데이터 블록을 디스크로부터 미리 가져옴으로써 실제 필요할 때의 디스크 입출력 횟수를 줄여 실행 시간을 단축시키는 방법이다. 본 논문에서는 리눅스 기반의 병렬 파일 시스템 상에서 선반입 되는 블록의 수를 제한하여 캐쉬의 효율성을 높이고 실행 시간을 단축시키는 선반입 기법을 구현하였다. 특히 순차적인 접근을 하는 대용량 파일에서 그 성능이 개선됨을 보여 준다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.8A no.4
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• pp.447-454
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• 2001

Various caching and prefetching algorithms have been investigated to identify and effective method for improving the performance of I/O devices. A prefetching algorithm decreases the processing time of a system by reducing the number of disk accesses when an I/O is needed. This paper proposes an AMBA prefetching method that is an extended version of the OBA prefetching method. The AMBA prefetching method will prefetching blocks continuously as long as disk bandwidth is enough. In this method, though there were excessive data request rate, we would expect efficient prefetching. And in the AMBA prefetching method, to prevent the cache pollution, it limits the number of data blocks to be prefetched within the cache area. It can be implemented in a user-level File System based on a Linux Operating System. In particular, the proposed prefetching policy improves the system performance by about 30∼40% for large files that are accessed sequentially.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2011.06a
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• pp.69-72
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• 2011

플래시 메모리 기반의 저장 시스템은 빠른 접근 속도, 작고 가벼운 특성, 저전력 소모 등의 이유로 하드 디스크를 대체하는 저장 매체로 주목 받고 있다. 플래시 메모리는 하드 디스크와 다르게 읽기 쓰기 소거 연산이 필요하며 수혈 단위와 수혈 시간 이 비대칭적이다. 또한 제자리 갱신이 불가능하기 때문에 가장 느린 소거 동작을 선행하여 갱신 연산을 수행한다. 기존 호스트 시스템은 읽기 쓰기 연산 만을 수행하기 때문에 플래시 메모리를 바로 사용하기 위해서는 별도의 소프트웨어 중간 계층인 플래시 전환 계층이 필요하다. 그러나 디스크 기반의 B-트리를 플래시 전환 계층 위에서 인덱스로 사용하면 B-트리 특성상 제자리 갱신이 빈번하게 발생하기 때문에 성능 저하가 발생한다. 따라서 플래시 메모리 특성을 고려한 새로운 인덱스 구조가 필요하게 되었다. 플래시 메모리 전용의 인덱스 ${\mu}$-트리와 LSB-트리가 제안 되었지만, ${\mu}$-트리는 페이지 관리의 비효율성, LSB-트리는 임시 노드 관리 추가 비용의 문제점을 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서 ${\mu}$-트리와 LSB 트리의 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 지연 갱신을 이용한 B-트리를 제안한다. 제안하는 인덱스는 변경이 일어나는 노드를 메모리에 적재시켜 데이터 삽입 시 노드 갱신을 지연시키고 노드 분할 없이 데이터의 순차 삽입을 처리하여 검색 및 쓰기 성능을 향상시킨다. 본 논문에서는 관련 연구인 ${\mu}$-트리와 LSB-트리를 수식을 통하여 제안하는 인덱스 구조의 우수성을 보인다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.9D no.1
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• pp.31-42
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• 2002

In this paper, we propose a new spatio-temporal representation scheme which can model moving objets trajectories effectively in video data and a new signature-based access method for moving objects trajectories which can support efficient retrieval on user query based on moving objects trajectories. The proposed spatio-temporal representation scheme supports content-based retrieval based on moving objects trajectories and concept-based retrieval based on concepts(semantics) which are acquired through the location information of moving objects trajectories. Also, compared with the sequential search, our signature-based access method can improve retrieval performance by reducing a large number of disk accesses because it access disk using only retrieved candidate signatures after it first scans all signatures and performs filtering before accessing the data file. Finally, we show the experimental results that proposed scheme is superior to the Li and Shan's scheme in terns of both retrieval effectiveness and efficiency.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.308-314
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• 2010

As the price of flash memory continues to drop and the technology of flash SSD controller innovates, high performance flash SSDs with affordable prices flourish in the storage market. Nevertheless, it is hard to expect that flash SSDs will replace harddisks completely as database storage. Instead, the approach to use flash SSD as a cache for harddisks would be more practical, and, in fact, several hybrid storage architectures for flash memory and harddisk have been suggested in the literature. In this paper, we propose a new approach to use flash SSD as an extended buffer for main buffer in database systems, which stores the pages replaced out from main buffer and returns the pages which are re-referenced in the upper buffer layer, improving the system performance drastically. In contrast to the existing approaches to use flash SSD as a cache in the lower storage layer, our approach, which uses flash SSD as an extended buffer in the upper host, can provide fast random read speed for the warm pages which are being replaced out from the limited main buffer. In fact, for all the pages which are missing from the main buffer in a real TPC-C trace, the hit ratio in the extended buffer could be more than 60%, and this supports our conjecture that our simple extended buffer approach could be very effective as a cache. In terms of performance/price, our extended buffer architecture outperforms two other alternative approaches with the same cost, 1) large main buffer and 2) more harddisks.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.28 no.12
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• pp.660-673
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• 2001

In Video-on-Demand (VoD) servers, disk throughput is an important system design parameter because it is directly related to the number of user requests that can be served simultaneously. In this paper, we propose an efficient periodic request grouping scheme for disk array-based VoD servers that reduces the disk seek time, thus improving the disk throughput of VoD disk arrays. To reduce the disk seek time, the proposed scheme groups the periodic requests that access data blocks stored in adjacent regions into one, and arranges these groups in a pre-determined order (e.g., in left-symmetric or right-symmetric fashion). Our simulation result shows that the proposed scheme reduces the average disk bandwidth required by a single video stream and can serve more user requests than existing schemes. For a data block size of 192KB, the number of simultaneously served user requests is increased by 8% while the average waiting time for a user request is decreased by 20%. We also propose an adaptation technique that conforms the proposed scheme to the user preference changes for video streams.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.246-259
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• 2001

Due to recent rapid deployment of Internet streaming service and digital broadcasting service, the issue of how to efficiently support streaming workload in so called "Internet Home Appliance" receives prime interests from industry as well as academia. The underlying dilemma is that it may not be feasible to put cutting edge CPU, boards, disks and other peripherals into that type of device. The primary reason is its cost. Usually, Internet Home Appliances has its dedicated usage, e.g. Internet Radio, and thus it does not require high-end CPU nor high-end Va subsystem. The same reasoning applies to I/O subsystem. In Internet Home Appliances dedicated to handle compressed moving picture, it is not equipped with high end SCSI disk with fast rotational speed. Thus, it is mandatory to devise elaborate software algorithm to exploit the available hardware resources and maximize the efficiency of the system. This paper presents our experiences in the design and implementation of a new multimedia file system which can efficiently deliver the required disk bandwidth for a periodic I/O workload. We have implemented the file system on the Linux operating system, and examined itsperformance under streaming I/O workload. The results of the study show that the proposed file system exhibits superior performance than the Linux Ext2 file system under streaming I/O workload. The result of this work not only contribute to advance the state f art file system technology for multimedia streaming but also put forth the software which is readily available and can be deployed. deployed.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.30 no.7_8
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• pp.610-617
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• 2003

Similarity matching in video database is of growing importance in many new applications such as video clustering and digital video libraries. In order to provide efficient access to relevant data in large databases, there have been many research efforts in video indexing with diverse spatial and temporal features. however, most of the previous works relied on sequential matching methods or memory-based inverted file techniques, thus making them unsuitable for a large volume of video databases. In order to resolve this problem, this paper proposes an effective and scalable indexing technique using a trie, originally proposed for string matching, as an index structure. For building an index, we convert each frame into a symbol sequence using a window order heuristic and build a disk-resident trie from a set of symbol sequences. For query processing, we perform a depth-first search on the trie and execute a temporal segmentation. To verify the superiority of our approach, we perform several experiments with real and synthetic data sets. The results reveal that our approach consistently outperforms the sequential scan method, and the performance gain is maintained even with a large volume of video databases.