• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.1-8
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a new hybrid wear leveling technique for NAND Flash memory, called Time-Aware Wear Leveling (TAWL). Our proposal prolongs the lifetime of NAND Flash memory by using dynamic wear leveling technique which considers the wear level of hot blocks as well as static wear leveling technique which considers the wear level of the whole blocks. TAWL also reduces the overhead of garbage collection by separating hot data and cold data using update frequency rate. We showed that TAWL enhanced the lifetime of NAND flash memory up to 220% compared with previous wear leveling techniques and our technique also reduced the number of copy operations of garbage collections by separating hot and cold data up to 45%.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.181-185
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• 2014

The lifetime of a solid-state drive (SSD) is limited because of the number of program and erase cycles allowed on its NAND flash blocks. Data cannot be overwritten in an SSD, leading to an out-of-place update every time the data are modified. This result in two copies of the data: the original copy and a modified copy. This phenomenon is known as write amplification and adversely affects the endurance of the memory. In this study, we address the issue of reducing wear leveling through efficient handling of write requests. This results in even wearing of all the blocks, thereby increasing the endurance period. The focus of our work is to logically divert the write requests, which are concentrated to limited blocks, to the less-worn blocks and then measure the maximum number of write requests that the memory can handle. A memory without the proposed algorithm wears out prematurely as compared to that with the algorithm. The main feature of the proposed algorithm is to delay out-of-place updates till the threshold is reached, which results in a low overhead. Further, the algorithm increases endurance by a factor of the threshold level multiplied by the number of blocks in the memory.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.6 no.2 s.19
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• pp.5-10
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• 2007

According to the advantageous features of flash memory, its exploitation and application in mobile and ubiquitous related devices as well as voluminous storage devices is being increased rapidly. The inherent properties that are determined by configuration of flash memory unit might restrict the promising expansion in its utilization. In this paper, we study policies based on threshold values, instead of using global search, in order to satisfy our objective that is to decrease the necessary processing cost or penalty for recycling of flash memory space at the same time minimizing the potential degradation of performance. The proposed cleaning methods create partitions of candidate memory regions, to be reclaimed as free, by utilizing global or dynamic threshold values. The impact of the proposed policies is evaluated through a number of experiments, the composition of the optimal configuration featuring the methods is tested through experiments as well.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2016.01a
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• pp.5-7
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 블록 생성 번호를 활용한 동적 마모도 평준화 기법을 제안한다. 지금까지 제안된 동적 마모도 평준화 기법들은 콜드 블록을 판별하기 위해 경과 시간을 사용하고 있다. 하지만 저장장치의 데이터 접근은 일정한 시간 간격으로 이루어지는 것이 아니기 때문에 이와 같은 경과 시간을 사용하는 방식은 데이터에 대한 블록 접근 정보가 왜곡될 수 있는 단점이 있다. 이러한 단점을 해결하기 위해, 본 논문에서 제안하는 기법은 블록을 할당할 때 블록 순차 번호를 테이블에 저장하고 이를 이용하여 블록의 접근 빈도를 판별한다. 실험에서 제한하는 기법은 기존의 CB, CAT 기법과 비교하여 최대 11% 수명이 향상됨을 확인하였다.