• Journal of Ubiquitous Convergence Technology
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2008

An effective solution to the problems caused by the explosive growth of World Wide Web is a web caching that employing an additional server, called proxy cache, between the clients and main server for caching the popular web objects near the clients. However, a single proxy cache can easily become the bottleneck. Deploying groups of cooperative caches provides scalability and robustness by eliminating the limitations caused by a single proxy cache. Two common architectures to implement the cooperative caching are hierarchical and distributed caching systems. Unfortunately, both architectures suffer from performance limitations. We propose an efficient hybrid caching architecture eliminating these limitations by using both the hierarchical and same level caches. Our performance evaluation with our investigated simulator shows that the proposed architecture offers the best of both existing architectures in terms of cache hit rate, the number of query messages from clients, and response time.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.25-33
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• 2014

In this paper, we quantitatively compare two different time-predictable multicore cache architectures, separate and statically-partitioned caches, through extensive simulation. Current research trends primarily focus on partitioned-cache architectures in order to achieve time predictability for hard real-time multicore based systems, and our experiments reveal that separate caches actually lead to much better performance and energy efficiency when compared to statically-partitioned caches, and both of them are adequate for timing analysis for real-time multicore applications.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.175-180
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• 2012

최근에 이르러, 수퍼스칼라 프로세서의 하드웨어 복잡도와 성능 한계의 문제를 극복하기 위하여 멀티코어 프로세서가 각종 컴퓨터 시스템에 상용화되어 널리 이용되고 있다. 이 때, 멀티코어 프로세서의 성능에 큰 영향을 미치는 것은 명령어 캐쉬와 데이터 캐쉬의 구성 방법과 용량이다. 본 논문에서는 캐쉬의 구조와 용량이 멀티코어 프로세서의 성능에 미치는 영향을 분석하기 위하여, 다양한 캐쉬의 구조와 용량으로 구성되는 2 개에서 16 개까지의 멀티코어 프로세서에 대하여 SPEC 2000 벤치마크를 입력으로 하여 모의실험을 수행하였다. 모의실험 결과, 명령어 캐쉬와 데이터 캐쉬의 구조를 2 차 연관도로 구성하고 각 용량을 64 KB로 설정할 때 하드웨어의 비용 대 성능 효과가 가장 높았다.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.177-189
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• 2015

High-performance processors using Non-Uniform Cache Architecture (NUCA) are increasingly used to deal with the growing wire delays in multicore/manycore processors. Due to the convergence of high-performance computing with embedded computing, NUCA caches are expected to benefit high-end embedded systems as well. However, for real-time systems that use multicore processors with NUCA caches, it is crucial to bound worst-case execution time (WCET) accurately and safely. In this paper, we developed a WCET analysis approach by considering the effect of static NUCA caches on WCET. We compared the WCET in real-time applications with different topologies of static NUCA caches. Our experimental results demonstrated that the static NUCA cache could improve the worst-case performance of realtime applications using multicore processor compared to the cache with uniform access time.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.101-110
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• 1997

실시간에 VLIW 명령어를 스케줄링하는 SVLIW 프로세서 구조는 실행 중 LNOP(긴 NOP 명령어)를 삽입하여 자원 충돌이나 자료 종속 문제를 스스로 해결할 수 있다. 따라서 SVLIW 프로세서에서는 메모리나 캐시에 적재되는 목적 코드로부터 LNOP 명령어를 제거할 수 있다. 그러므로 SVLIW 프로세서에서는 같은 크기의 캐시를 가진 VLIW 프로세서에 비하여 프로그램의 실행 도중에 발생하는 캐시 미스의 발생 빈도가 적어진다. 캐시 미스가 적게 발생하면 결국 평균 메모리 참조 시간이 짧아지므로 프로그램을 수행하는데 걸리는 실행 사이클의 수가 적어지게 된다. 이러한 특징은 한편 명령어 파이프라인 단계를 늘림으로 인한 영향을 상쇄할 수 있기 때문에 전체적으로 성능을 향상시킬 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 두 가지 프로세서 구조에서 어떤 응용 프로그램을 수행할 때 소요되는 실행 사이클을 예측하는 모델을 확립하고 이를 비교하였다. 또한, 시뮬레이션 결과로부터 캐시 미스가 발생하였을 때 메모리를 참조하는데 걸리는 시간이 길어질수록 SVLIW 프로세서에서의 실행 사이클이 VLIW 프로세서의 경우에 비하여 짧아지는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제27권11C호
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• pp.1040-1045
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• 2002

This paper focuses on a hash-based, distributed Wet caching network that eliminates inter-cache communication. An agent program on cache servers, a mapping program on the DNS server, and other components comprised in a distributed Web caching network were modified and developed to implement a so-called "consistent" hashing. Also, a dynamic load balancing algorithm is proposed to address the load-balancing problem that is a key performance issue on distributed architectures. This algorithm effectively balances the load among cache servers by distributing the calculated amount of mapping items that have higher popularity than others. Therefore, this developed network can resolve the imbalanced load that is caused by a variable page popularity, a non-uniform distribution of a hash-based mapping, and a variation of cache servers.

• 전자공학회논문지A
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• 제31A권6호
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• pp.177-187
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• 1994

In the design of modern computer systems, the speed gap between the CPUs and DRAMs has been a major concern. To relieve this problem at a low cost, several new DRAM architectures have been proposed. This study is aimed at evaluating quantitatively the impact of the new DRAM architectures (synchronous DRAM. dual-RAS synchronous DRAM, and enhanced DRAM) on the memory system performance. We developed a cache and memory simulator and performed various experiments using the traces generated from four benchmark programs. The simulation results show that the new DRAM architectures offer a better performance than a conventional one by 5~30% in a low cost system and their improvement in a high performance system is less than 1%. However, for resonable multiprogramming workoads, additional performance improvement of about 10~28% is expected in a high performance system while 1~3% in a low cost system.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권7호
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• pp.2904-2918
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• 2020

With a huge demand for replicated content on the Internet, a new networking paradigm called information-centric networking (ICN) has been introduced for efficient content dissemination. In ICN, named content is distributed over the network cache and it is accessed by name instead of a location identifier. These aspects allow users to retrieve content from any of the nodes having replicas, and consequently 1) network resources are more efficiently utilized by avoiding redundant transmission and 2) more scalable services are provided by distributing server loads. However, in-network caching in ICN brings about a new type of security issues, called content poisoning attacks, where fabricated content is located in the network cache and interferes with the normal behavior of the system. In this paper, we look into the problems of content poisoning in ICN and discuss security architectures against them. In particular, we reconsider the state-of-the-art schemes from the perspective of feasibility, and propose a practical security architecture.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.51-72
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• 2015

Time predictability is crucial in hard real-time and safety-critical systems. Cache memories, while useful for improving the average-case memory performance, are not time predictable, especially when they are shared in multicore processors. To achieve time predictability while minimizing the impact on performance, this paper explores several time-predictable scratch-pad memory (SPM) based architectures for multicore processors. To support these architectures, we propose the dynamic memory objects allocation based partition, the static allocation based partition, and the static allocation based priority L2 SPM strategy to retain the characteristic of time predictability while attempting to maximize the performance and energy efficiency. The SPM based multicore architectural design and the related allocation methods thus form a comprehensive solution to hard real-time multicore based computing. Our experimental results indicate the strengths and weaknesses of each proposed architecture and the allocation method, which offers interesting on-chip memory design options to enable multicore platforms for hard real-time systems.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(5)
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• pp.235-238
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• 2002

This paper proposes a novel scheme of designating non-cacheable addresses of memories in embedded systems of multi-master architectures without a Memory Management Unit (MMU). As a solution for data coherency problem between external memories and a cache memory, we proposes a cache masking scheme by allocating the most significant bit of address not used in 32-bit address system as indicator bit to designate non-cacheable address. As this scheme enables non-cacheable area designation every address, the simpler in the aspect of hardware and more flexible size of non-cacheable area can be obtained.