• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.387-390
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a fast booting solution with embedded linux-based smart devices. We have divided the fast boot process into six steps, such as boot loader, kernel, file system, the init-scripts, shared libraries, and applications for an embedded linux-based boot process to improve the fast booting. Improvements for the fast boot are made in the boot loader phase, which is the first phase at power-up, and the init-script that runs the boot loader phase. To improve the fast booting, standby time from the boot loader and unnecessary initialization routine have been removed, and uncompressed kernel image loading as well as optimized copy routine have been applied. Further, a technology that replaces binary scripts in init-script phase and light-weight init process have been utilized to improve the boot.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.23-31
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• 2011

Improving system boot time has become one of the most important issues in the system software arena. As Linux is widely used in the embedded system environment, extensive research has been conducted in order to mitigate Linux boot time delay. In this respect, this paper mainly focuses on the Hibernation-based boot mechanism, which is the boot mechanism based on Hibernation, as an alternative to the conventional boot sequence. The contributions of this work are as follows. First, we implement the Hibernation-based boot mechanism on a real embedded Linux system and describe the implementation details. Second, we observe the Hibernation-based boot procedures so that we can investigate the possibility whether the boot mechanism has room for improvement in terms of the boot time. Through the in-depth observation and analysis based on the real implementation, we anticipate that the Hibernation-based boot mechanism which adopts various optimization methods can provide maximum of 3.1 times faster booting performance compared to the conventional way.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.115-122
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• 2004

This paper describe the implementation or the boot loader for the boot system using of memory card. This boot roader consist of the system initialization, CF card checking, CF memory card checking, file system and the program relocator. This boot loader increase the system stability with program consistency checking algorithm in the read phase from the CF memory card. And this system have the compatibility in CF memory card file system, so system manufacturing productivity increase.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.594-598
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• 2008

In this paper we propose a fast booting technique based on Improved snapshot boot in embedded Linux, widely adopted in personal devices such as PDA and mobile phones. The existing Snapshot boot technique tries to create a snapshot image at the time of suspend, and later load the entire snapshot image into the system memory at the predefined location with the help of a bootloader at the time of resume. Since a bootloader has to copy the entire snapshot image into the predefined memory to resume the previous suspended computing state, a little bit long time is required to resume. Improved snapshot boot does not create a snapshot image consisting of whole memory pages at the time of suspend, thus resulting in smaller snapshot image than the existing snapshot boot. The remaining pages are in the swap area. The resulting smaller sized snapshot image enables much faster booting latency. Through the experiment, we can see the booting latency is reduced almost 30% with suspend image of 2982 pages. This result depends on the amount of swap-out pages.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.15-26
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• 2020

Secure boot is security technology that verifies the integrity of the computer system in boot stage and controls the boot process accordingly. The computer system can establish a secure execution environment from the threat of various malwares by security boot and also supports the recovery when system in emergency case. Recently, Secure boot has been adopted by various modern computer manufacturers to protect users' information from hacker attacks and to prevent abuse of their products by malicious users. In this paper, we classify security boot developed by various companies and organizations by platform, and analyze the design and development purpose of each security boot and investigate the limitation of design. It can be used as a reference for system security designers in various information of security boot development method and security design of system.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.120-126
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• 2006

A gate driver with Boot-strap chain is proposed to drive Multi-level PDP sustain switches. The proposed gate driver uses only one boot-strap capacitor and one diode per each MOSFETs switch without floating power supply. By adoption of this gate driver circuits, the size, weight and the cost of the driver board can be reduced.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.257-258
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• 2007

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.23 no.8
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• pp.504-509
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• 2017

Preserving the integrity of the booting process is important. Recent rootkit attacks and subverting OS attacks prove that any post-OS security mechanism can be easily circumvented if the booting process is not properly controlled. Using an actual case as an example, the hacker of the Se-jong government office simply bypassed the user's password authentication by compromising the normal booting process. This paper analyzes existing pre-OS protection using secure boot and measured boot, and proposes another bootloader that overcomes the limitations. The proposed bootloader not only guarantees the integrity of all the pre-OS binaries, bootloaders, and kernel, it also makes explicit records of integrity in the booting process to the external TPM device, so that we can track modifications of BIOS configurations or unintended booting process modifications.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.3B
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• pp.254-259
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• 2011

This paper attempts to propose a method to improve the snapshot boot method, one of the methods to enhance the booting speed of the embedded Linux based system and to increase its efficiency. Snapshot boot is a method of using suspend/resume that is a method of saving and restoring the entire information of the current tasks, and it enhances the booting speed by processing a restoration of previous tasks from the bootloader instead of processing the Linux booting. The facing problem of snapshot boot is that it takes a long time to create images and save them to the storage device during the suspend process since it targets every pages. Additionally, if the switch is turned off while creating an image by some extraordinary circumstances, then the image is not created and thus, the resume process of snapshot boot cannot be executed. The suggest method in this paper creates the snapshot image for once only and utilize the image to enhance the speed and stability on booting.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.564-569
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• 2013

The current embedded devices are growing rapidly in the multi-core, and these demand fast boot time. But method of previous boot uses core only one. The method includes parallel techniques and modification of CPU Frequency policy. Parallel methods, after analyzing the Android boot process with analysis tool, applied to location where a lot of CPU operation. CPU Frequency policy is modified for high performance of core. The proposed method was applied to S5PV310 dual core and Exynos4412 quad core embedded system. As a result of the experiment, we found that the proposed method makes boot time fast about 20.71% and 31.34% in dual core and quad core environment as compared with the previous method.