• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2009년도 정보 및 제어 심포지움 논문집
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• pp.240-242
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• 2009

Flash memories are one of best media to support future computer's storages. However, we need to improve traditional data management scheme due to the relatively slow characteristics of flash operation of SSD. Due to the unique characteristics of flash media and hard disk, the efficiency of I/O processing is severely reduced without special treatment, especially in the presence of heavy workload or bulk data copy. In this respect, we need to design and develop efficient hybrid-RAID storage system.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.710-716
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• 2008

본 논문은 플래시 메모리를 이용한 파일 저장 장치의 성능 분석을 다룬다. 특히 플래시 메모리의 대표적인 형태인 낸드(NAND) 플래시와 노어(NOR) 플래시에 대해 비교 분석한다. 성능 평가를 위해 마이크로소프트 PocketPC 기반의 실험 플랫폼에 두 플래시 타입을 위한 파일 저장 시스템을 각각 구성하였다. 이렇게 구성된 플랫폼을 이용하여, 버퍼 크기, 사용 용량, 커널 수준 쓰기 캐싱 등의 변수에 따른 입출력 처리량을 측정/비교하였다. 실험 결과에 따르면, 낸드 플래시 기반 저장 장치의 성능이 쓰기/읽기 처리량 관점에서 각각 4.8배, 5.7배까지 더 높은 것으로 나타났다. 본 실험 결과는 두 가지 플래시 메모리 저장 방식의 상대적인 장단점을 잘 보여주고 있으며 플래시 메모리 기반의 파일 저장장치의 설계에 유용하게 활용될 수 있다.

• 정보과학회 논문지
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• 제44권11호
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• pp.1130-1137
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• 2017

하나의 메모리 셀에 여러 비트의 정보를 저장하는 다치화 기법은 공정 미세화와 함께 낸드 플래시 메모리의 집적도를 크게 향상시켰지만, 그 반대급부로 MLC 낸드 플래시 메모리의 평균 쓰기 성능은 SLC 낸드 플래시 메모리 대비 두 배 이상 하락하였다. 본 논문에서는 MLC 낸드 플래시 기반 저장장치의 성능 향상을 위해 제안되었던 기존의 계층 교차적 최적화 기법들을 소개하고, 두 기법의 상호 보완성을 분석하여 해당 기법들의 한계점을 극복하는 새로운 통합 기법을 제안한다. MLC 낸드 플래시 디바이스에 존재하는 성능 비대칭성을 플래시 변환 계층 수준에서 최대한 활용함으로써, 제안하는 기법은 인가되는 다수의 쓰기 명령을 SLC 낸드 플래시 디바이스의 성능으로 처리하여 저장장치의 성능 향상을 도모한다. 실험 결과, 제안하는 기법은 기존 기법 대비 평균 39%의 성능 향상을 달성할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.262-269
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• 2005

Semiconductor scientists and engineers ideally desire the faster but the cheaper non-volatile memory devices. In practice, no single device satisfies this desire because a faster device is expensive and a cheaper is slow. Therefore, in this paper, we use heterogeneous non-volatile memories and construct an efficient hierarchy for them. First, a small RAM device (e.g., MRAM, FRAM, and PRAM) is used as a write buffer of flash memory devices. Since the buffer is faster and does not have an erase operation, write can be done quickly in the buffer, making the write latency short. Also, if a write is requested to a data stored in the buffer, the write is directly processed in the buffer, reducing one write operation to flash storages. Second, we use many types of flash memories (e.g., SLC and MLC flash memories) in order to reduce the overall storage cost. Specifically, write requests are classified into two types, hot and cold, where hot data is vulnerable to be modified in the near future. Only hot data is stored in the faster SLC flash, while the cold is kept in slower MLC flash or NOR flash. The evaluation results show that the proposed hierarchy is effective at improving the access time of flash memory storages in a cost-effective manner thanks to the locality in memory accesses.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2005년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.191-193
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• 2005

Flash memories are one of best media to support portable computer's storages. However, we need to improve traditional data management scheme due to the relatively slow characteristics of flash operation as compared to RAM memory. In order to achieve this goal, we devise a new scheme called Flash Two Phase Locking (F2PL) scheme for efficient data processing. F2PL improves transaction performance by allowing multi version reads and efficiently handling slow flash write/erase operation in lock management process.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.115-126
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• 2006

Recently, flash memories are one of best media to support portable computer's storages in mobile computing environment. We propose a new transaction recovery scheme for a flash memory database environment which is based on a flash media file system. We improved traditional shadow paging schemes by reusing old data pages which are supposed to be invalidated in the course of writing a new data page in the flash file system environment. In order to reuse these data pages, we exploit deferred cleaning list structure in our flash memory shadow paging (FMSP) scheme. FMSP scheme removes the additional storage overhead for keeping shadow pages and minimizes the I/O performance degradation caused by data page distribution phenomena of traditional shadow paging schemes. We also propose a simulation model to show the performance of FMSP. Based on the results of the performance evaluation, we conclude that FMSP outperforms the traditional scheme.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.59-70
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• 2005

Flash memories are one of best media to support portable computer's storages in mobile computing environment. The features of non-volatility, low power consumption, and fast access time for read operations are sufficient grounds to support flash memory as major database storage components of portable computers. However, we need to improve traditional transaction management scheme due to the relatively slow characteristics of flash operation as compared to RAM memory. in order to achieve this goal, we devise a new scheme called Flash Two Phase Locking (F2PL) scheme for efficient transaction processing. F2Pl improves transaction performance by allowing multi version reads and efficiently handling slow flash write/erase operation in lock management process. We also propose a simulation model to show the performance of F2PL. Based on the results of the performance evaluation, we conclude that F2PL scheme outperforms the traditional scheme.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2006년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.267-269
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• 2006

Recently, flash memories are one of best media to support portable computer's storages in mobile computing environment. The features of non-volatility, low power consumption, and fast access time for read operations are sufficient grounds to support flash memory as major database storage components of portable computers. However, we need to improve traditional Indexing scheme such as B-Tree due to the relatively slow characteristics of flash operation as compared to RAM memory. In order to achieve this goal, we devise a new indexing scheme called F-Tree. F-Tree improves tree operation performance by compressing pointers and keys in tree nodes and rewriting the nodes without a slow erase operation in node insert/delete processes.

• 정보저장시스템학회논문집
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.7-12
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• 2011

The flash memory has been remarked as the next generation media of portable and desktop computers' storage devices. Their features include non-volatility, low power consumption, and fast access time for read operations, which are sufficient to present flash memories as major data storage components for desktop and servers. The purpose of our study is to upgrade a traditional mirroring scheme based on SSD storages due to the relatively slow or freezing characteristics of write operations, as compared to fast read operations. For this work, we propose a new storage management scheme called Memory Mirror-Switching based on traditional mirroring scheme. Our Mirror-Switching scheme improves flash operation performance by switching write-workloads from flash memory to RAM and delaying write operations to avoid freezing. Our test results show that our scheme significantly reduces the write operation delay and storage freezing.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.257-271
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• 2006

Recently, flash memories are one of best media to support portable computer's storages in mobile computing environment. The features of non-volatility, low power consumption, and fast access time for read operations are sufficient grounds to support flash memory as major database storage components of portable computers. However, we need to improve traditional Indexing scheme such as B-Tree due to the relatively slow characteristics of flash operation as compared to RAM memory. In order to achieve this goal, we devise a new indexing scheme called F-Tree. F-Tree improves tree operation performance by compressing pointers and keys in tree nodes and rewriting the nodes without a slow erase operation in node insert/delete processes. Based on the results of the performance evaluation, we conclude that F-Tree indexing scheme outperforms the traditional indexing scheme.