• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.124-133
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• 2009

CANopen which is one of the in-vehicle network (IVN) protocols is adopted to solve the hardware dependency problem of the CAN-based application. CANopen makes different CAN devices interoperable each others. By the advantage of the device profiling concept, it can make the period of developing CAN-based application system shorten. The utilization of CANopen network must be reduced to improve the communication performance (e.g. worst-case response time). For reducing network utilization, messages need to be packed as many as possible so that message frame overhead can be decreased. In this paper, we suggested a PDO packing mechanism using object dictionary (OD) and process data object (PDO) communication service in CANopen. Through experiments, the performance of the mechanism is evaluated with SAE benchmark. As a result, network utilization is decreased about 10% compared to the result of the previous works.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.10b
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• pp.350-354
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• 2007

인터넷 사용에 따른 수많은 정보의 요청을 처리하기 위해 웹 서버 클러스터 기법에 대한 많은 연구가 진행되어 왔다. 웹 서버 클러스터 기법은 사용자들의 많은 요청을 하나의 서버에서 처리하지 않고 다수의 서버가 처리한다. 따라서 클러스터를 구성하는 다수의 서버가 클라이언트의 요청을 적절하게 분배하여, 웹 서버가 응답해야 할 부하를 분담해야 한다. 특히 금융 웹 서비스와 같은 특정 시간에 부하가 집중되는 환경에서 최소한의 클라이언트의 요청에 대한 서비스를 제공해야 한다. 이번 연구에서 DNS 기반 부하 분산 기법 및 디스패쳐 기반 부하 분산 기법을 이용한 경험적 동적 부한 분산 기법 적용을 통해 각 기법의 약점을 줄이고 부하가 급격히 증가한 시점에 전체 시스템의 성능을 떨어뜨리지 않는 기법에 대하여 논한다. 혼합 기법을 사용하기 위해 웹서버 및 디스패처의 부하 정보를 수집하고 실험을 통해 얻은 한계치를 결정한다. 그리고 이 한계치를 이용하여 부하 분산 기법을 변경함으로써 최소한의 서비스를 제공할 수 있다. 실험을 통해 제시된 부하 분산 기법이 높은 부하 상태를 보이는 시점에서 최소한의 서비스를 사용자에게 제공하여 최악의 경우를 막을 수 있음을 보인다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.77-85
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• 2009

Execution times of tasks can be variable depend on input data. If we choose a high performance processor to satisfy the worst case execution times, the hard cost becomes high and the energy consumption also becomes large. To apply a lower performance processor, we have to utilize processor capacity maximally while overrunning tasks can not affect deadlines of other tasks. To be used for such systems, this paper presents SBP (Shared Bandwidth Partitioning) that a processor bandwidth is reserved and shared among all tasks. If a task needs more processor capacity, it can use a portion of the shared bandwidth. A simulation result shows that SBP provides better performance than previous algorithms. SBP reduces deadline miss ratio which is related to scheduling quality. And the number of context switches, which is related to system overhead, is also reduced.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.541-545
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• 2010

AUTOSAR, a standard software platform for automotive, has been developed to manage software complexity and improve software reuseability. However reuse of test system is difficult because it is dependant on implementation language and test phase. In this paper, we suggest a test system generation method for AUTOSAR software component using TTCN-3, a standardized testing language. TTCN-3 test system is generated automatically from AUTOSAR XML containing software design information. The test system consists of TTCN-3 tester and target system and tests functionality and worst case response time of software under simulation environment. With the proposed testing techniques we can reduce time and effort to build the testing system and reuse testing environment.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.30 no.9
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• pp.461-476
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• 2003

Due to the implementation ease and alleviation of memory bottleneck effect, NUMA architecture has dominated in the multiprocessor systems for the past several years. However, because the NUMA system distributes memory in each node, frequent remote memory access is a key factor of performance degradation. Therefore, efficient design of RAC(Remote Access Cache) in NUMA system is critical for performance improvement. In this paper, we suggest Multi-Grain RAC which can adaptively control the RAC line size, with respect to each application behavior Then we simulate NUMA system with multi-grain RAC using MINT, event-driven memory hierarchy simulator. and analyze the performance results. At first, with profile-based determination method, we verify the optimal RAC line size for each application and, then, we compare and analyze the performance differences among NUMA systems with normal RAC, with optimal line size RAC, and with multi-grain RAC. The simulation shows that the worst case can be always avoided and results are very close to optimal case with any combination of application and RAC format.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.29 no.9
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• pp.520-529
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• 2002

This paper presents an approach for scheduling network messages with real-time dynamic algorithms. We present the method that calculates an intermediate relative deadline of the message based on the EDF(Earliest Deadline First) scheduling policy. We adjust the slack of message by using this intermediate relative deadline to allocate a priority of message. The priority of the message can be determined accurately by using the slack that calculates in our approach, which increases the schedulability efficiency of the message. As a result, we reduce the worst-case response time and improve the guarantee ratio of real-time messages. Also, we describe the analysis method to check the schedulability on message sets, and show the efficiency of our approach by comparing the results of the DM(Deadline Monotonic) approach and the existing EDF approach with that of the improved EDF in our approach through the simulation.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.742-757
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• 2001

Since database management systems(DBMSS) have limited lock resources, transactions requesting locks beyond the limit mutt be aborted. In the worst carte, if such transactions are aborted repeatedly, the DBMS can become paralyzed, i.e., transaction execute but cannot commit. Lock escalation is considered a solution to this problem. However, existing lock escalation methods do not provide a complete solution. In this paper, we prognose a new lock escalation method, adaptive lock escalation, that selves most of the problems. First, we propose a general model for lock escalation and present the concept of the unescalatable look, which is the major cause making the transactions to abort. Second, we propose the notions of semi lock escalation, lock blocking, and selective relief as the mechanisms to control the number of unescalatable locks. We then propose the adaptive lock escalation method using these notions. Adaptive lock escalation reduces needless aborts and guarantees that the DBMS is not paralyzed under excessive lock requests. It also allows graceful degradation of performance under those circumstances. Third, through extensive simulation, we show that adaptive lock escalation outperforms existing lock escalation methods. The results show that, compared to the existing methods, adaptive lock escalation reduces the number of aborts and the average response time, and increases the throughput to a great extent. Especially, it is shown that the number of concurrent transactions can be increased more than 16 ~256 fold. The contribution of this paper is significant in that it has formally analysed the role of lock escalation in lock resource management and identified the detailed underlying mechanisms. Existing lock escalation methods rely on users or system administrator to handle the problems of excessive lock requests. In contrast, adaptive lock escalation releases the users of this responsibility by providing graceful degradation and preventing system paralysis through automatic control of unescalatable locks Thus adaptive lock escalation can contribute to developing self-tuning: DBMSS that draw a lot of attention these days.