• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.53 no.8
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• pp.594-601
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• 2004

We analyze checkpoint strategy for multiple real-time periodic tasks with hard deadlines. Real-time tasks usually have deadlines associated with them. For multiple real-time tasks, checkpoint strategy considering deadlines of all tasks is very difficult to derive. We analyze the problem of checkpoint placement for such multiple periodic tasks. In our strategy, the interval between checkpoints is determined for each task considering its deadline. An approximated failure probability over a specified interval is derived. Then the number of checkpoints for each task is selected to minimize the approximated failure probability. To show the usefulness of our strategy, error bound between the exact and the approximated failure probability is estimated, which is revealed to be quite small.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2011.06b
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• pp.44-47
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• 2011

임베디드 시스템에 저장매체로 사용되는 NAND플래시 메모리의 용량이 급격하게 증가하여 부팅 과정에서 파일 시스템을 마운트 하는데 필요한 시간이 점점 길어지고 있다. 특히 갑작스럽게 전원공급이 중단되거나 오류로 인해 비정상적인 종료가 발생하면 복구시간은 더 길어질 수 있으며, 이러한 문제는 실시간 저장 매체로서 활용될 수 있는 플래시 파일 시스템의 가용성을 낮게 하여 신뢰성을 떨어뜨리는 요인이 된다. 본 논문에서는 플래시 파일 시스템의 가용성을 높이기 위한 빠른 마운트 기법을 제안한다. 제안 기법은 스마트 체크포인팅 알고리즘을 이용하여 체크포인트의 가용성을 높이는 방법이다. 제안된 기법을 NAND 플래시 전용 파일 시스템인 YAFFS2에 구현하였고, 성능 분석 결과 기존의 기법에 비해 쓰기 빈도가 동적인 환경에서 마운트 시간을 최대 30%정도 줄이는 효과가 있었다.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.9
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• pp.2533-2539
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• 1999

Two scheme are widely used for fault-tolerant systems : one is the duplex system that has a physical redundancy, and the other one is the checkpointing scheme that rolls back to the last checkpoint at a failure. The average execution time and availability are important factors for measuring the performance of the fault-tolerant systems. However, in fault-tolerant real-time systems with a time constraint, meeting the time constrain instead of reducing the average execution time is the most important factor in the performance evaluation. We analyze and compare the performance of two fault-tolerant scheme (the duplex system and the checkpointing scheme) for real-time applications.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.577-579
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 Cactus와 Globus를 사용하는 그리드 컴퓨팅 환경에서 작업 마이그레이션(Job Migration)에 대해 연구 하였다. 그리드 컴퓨팅은 고속의 네트워크로 연결된 다중의 사이트에 분산되어 있는 연산 자원들을 활용하는 것으로서, 연산 자원들의 효율적인 이용이 중요하다. 연산자원의 효율적인 이용의 한 방법으로서 작업 마이그레이션은 이동 에이전트, 부하 균등화, 결함 허용 등을 위해 사용될 수 있다. 본 논문에는 한 사이트에서 실행중인 연산 작업이 중단된 경우, 유휴한 다른 사이트의 연산자원으로 이동한 후 체크포인팅 파일을 이용하여 중단된 지점부터 복구하여 연산을 계속 수행하도록 하는 연구를 수행하였다. K*Grid 환경에서 연산시간을 효과적으로 단축함을 실험으로 확인하였다. 보다 동적인 그리드 컴퓨팅에서 결함허용, 연산자원의 효율적인 이용 방법으로 사용될 수 있다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.17-22
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• 2011

The underwater environments are quite different from the terrestrial ones in terms of the communication channel and constrains. In underwater wireless sensor network, the probability of node failure is high because sensor nodes are deployed in more harsh environments than the ground based networks and moved by waves and currents. There are researches considering the communication environments of underwater to improve the data transmission throughput. In this paper, we present a checkpointing scheme of the cluster heads that recoveries from a cluster head failure quickly. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme enhances the reliability of the networks and more efficient in terms of the energy consumption and the recovery latency than without checkpointing.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.19-26
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• 2010

In this paper, we adopt Storage Class Memory, which is next-generation non-volatile RAM technology, as part of main memory parallel to DRAM, and exploit the SCM+DRAM main memory system from the dependability perspective. Our system provides instant system on/off without bootstrapping, dynamic selection of process persistence or non-persistence, and fast recovery from power and/or software failure. The advantages of our system are that it does not cause the problems of checkpointing, i.e., heavy overhead and recovery delay. Furthermore, as the system enables full application transparency, our system is easily applicable to real-world environments. As proof of the concept, we implemented a system based on a commodity Linux kernel 2.6.21 operating system. We verify that the persistence enabled processes continue to execute instantly at system off-on without any state and/or data loss. Therefore, we conclude that our system can improve availability and reliability.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.16-23
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• 2015

As the IT technology advances, data processing system is required to handle and process large amounts of data. However, the existing On-Disk system has limit to process data which increase rapidly. For that reason, the In-Memory system is being used which saves and manages data on the fast memory not saving data into hard disk. Although it has fast processing capability, it is necessary to use the fault tolerance techniques in the In-Memory system because it has a risk of data loss due to volatility which is one of the memory characteristics. These fault tolerance techniques lead to performance degradation of In-Memory system. In this paper, we classify the data into Hot and Cold data in consideration of the data usage characteristics in the In-Memory system and propose compound backup technique to ensure data persistence. The proposed technique increases the persistence and improves performance degradation.