• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.17D no.6
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• pp.383-394
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• 2010

Flash memory based SSDs are currently being considered as a promising candidate for replacing hard disks due to several superior features such as shorter access time, lower power consumption and better shock resistance. However, SSDs have different characteristics from hard disk such as difference of unit and time for read, write and erase operation and impossibility for over-writing. Because of these reasons, SSDs have disadvantages on hard disk based systems, so FTL(Flash Translation Layer) is designed to increase SSDs' efficiency. In this paper, we propose an advanced logical address mapping method for increasing SSDs' performance, which is named HAMM(Hybrid Address Mapping Method). HAMM addresses drawbacks of previous block-mapping method and super-block-mapping method and takes advantages of them. We experimented our method on our own SSDs simulator. In the experiments, we confirmed that HAMM uses storage area more efficiently than super-block-mapping method, given the same buffer size. In addition, HAMM used smaller memory than block-mapping method to construct mapping table, demonstrating almost same performance.

• Journal of Internet of Things and Convergence
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.109-114
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• 2024

Enterprise storage systems that require high data reliability are applying RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) systems to recover from data loss and failure. In particular, RAID 5 ensures space efficiency and reliability by distributing parity across multiple storage devices. However, when storage devices have different capacities, RAID is built based on the smallest capacity storage device, resulting in wasted storage space. Therefore, research is needed to solve this resource management problem. In this paper, we propose a method for RAID grouping of each independent NAND flash memory block in a RAID consisting of SSD (Solid State Disk) with external SSDs as well as internal SSDs. This method is divided into a policy for delivering block information inside SSDs to the RAID system and a policy for RAID grouping of physical addresses delivered from the RAID system. This method allows us to maintain a RAID that does not waste resources when SSDs of different capacities are grouped into RAID5. Finally, we demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method through experiments.

• Communications of the Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.58-68
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• 2009

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.4
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• pp.117-123
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• 2013

In the recent cloud storage environment, the amount of SSD (Solid-State Drive) replacing with the traditional hard disk drive is increasing. Management of SSD for its space efficiency has become important since SSD provides fast IO performance due to no mechanical movement whereas it has wearable characteristics and does not provide in place update. In order to manage space efficiency of SSD, data de-duplication technique is frequently used. However, this technique occurs much overhead because it consists of data chunking, hasing and hash matching operations. In this paper, we propose new data de-duplication method using PRAM cache. The proposed method uses hierarchical hash tables and LRU(Least Recently Used) for data replacement in PRAM. First hash table in DRAM is used to store hash values of data cached in the PRAM and second hash table in PRAM is used to store hash values of data in SSD storage. The method also enhance data reliability against power failure by maintaining backup of first hash table into PRAM. Experimental results show that average writing frequency and operation time of the proposed method are 44.2% and 38.8% less than those of existing data de-depulication method, respectively, when three workloads are used.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.48 no.7
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• pp.48-56
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• 2011

Recently, new storage device SSD(Solid State Disk) based on NAND flash memory is gradually replacing HDD(Hard Disk Drive) in mobile device and thus a variety of research efforts are going on to find the cost-effective ways of performance improvement. By increasing the NAND flash channels in order to enhance the bandwidth through parallel processing, DRAM buffer which acts as a buffer cache between host(PC) and NAND flash has become the bottleneck point. To resolve this problem, this paper proposes an efficient low-cost scheme to increase SSD performance by improving DRAM buffer bandwidth through scheduling techniques which utilize DRAM multi-banks. When both host and NAND flash multi-channels request access to DRAM buffer concurrently, the proposed technique checks their destination and then schedules appropriately considering properties of DRAMs. It can reduce overheads of bank active time and row latency significantly and thus optimizes DRAM buffer bandwidth utilization. The result reveals that the proposed technique improves the SSD performance by 47.4% in read and 47.7% in write operation respectively compared to conventional methods with negligible changes and increases in the hardware.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.18A no.4
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• pp.135-142
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• 2011

This research is to design an effective buffer structure and its management for flash memory based high performance SSDs (Solid State Disks). Specifically conventional SSDs tend to show asymmetrical performance in read and /write operations, in addition to a limited number of erase operations. To minimize the number of erase operations and write latency, the degree of interleaving levels over multiple flash memory chips should be maximized. Thus, to increase the interleaving effect, an effective buffer structure is proposed for the SSD with a hybrid address mapping scheme and super-block management. The proposed buffer operation is designed to provide performance improvement and enhanced flash memory life cycle. Also its management is based on a new selection scheme to determine random and sequential accesses, depending on execution characteristics, and a method to enhance the size of sequential access unit by aggressive merging. Experiments show that a newly developed mapping table under the MBA is more efficient than the basic simple management in terms of maintenance and performance. The overall performance is increased by around 35% in comparison with the basic simple management.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2014.07a
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• pp.353-354
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• 2014

오늘날 데이터베이스 시스템 의 스토리지에 많은 정보를 저장하게 되는데 이때 주로 HDD가 사용되고 있으며, 지금까지 대용량 저장 장치로 발전을 해왔다. HDD는 단위 비트 당 가격이 저렴한 이점이 있으나 HDD를 이용한 저장장치는 낮은 수행 속도 때문에 빠르게 정보를 제공받기를 원하는 사용자의 요구를 충족시키지 못하고 있다. 이를 해결하기 위해 빠른 I/O속도를 갖는 SSD를 이용한 저장 장치가 연구가 많이 되고 있으나 비트 당 가격이 비싼 SSD의 단점으로 인해 HDD를 전부 SSD로 대체하기에는 어려움이 있다. 본 논문에서는 HDD를 SSD로 완전히 대체하는 시스템이 아니라 SSD를 캐시로 사용한 SSD의 기반으로 혼합 스토리지 구조를 이용하여 검색 성능을 최적화시키기 위한 방법을 제안한다.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.15-23
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• 2013

In response to the demands of large-scale data processing with low-power and new application, a storage system using SSD (Solid State Disk/Drive) with fast input-output performance instead of hard disc has appeared as storage device. Studies on methods to overcome specific problems of SSD such as various processing data units, out-place-update and limited delete count have been actively conducted. However, declining performance and stability have not been resolved yet when storing case specific data with small scale that causes frequent random write in hard disc or SSD. This thesis suggests a system structure that stores index requesting frequent random write in NVRAM capable of byte access by using characteristics such as byte unit fast read / write of NVRAM, non-volatile and smaller size of actual changed data size in index page than block size.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.28-29
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• 2011

SSD(Solid State Drive)는 다중-채널/ 다중-웨이 방식의 NAND 플래시 메모리를 이용하는 저장장치로서 기존 HDD(Hard Disk Drive)를 대체할 차세대 보조기억장치로 주목받고 있다. 하지만 SSD 와 같은 동작을 하는 커널레벨의 시뮬레이터가 존재하지 않아, 사용자 영역에서부터 실제 NAND 플래시 칩까지의 동작 원리를 파악하기 어렵다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 SSD 시뮬레이터의 설계 및 구현내용을 기술한다. 구현한 SSD 시뮬레이터는 다중-채널/ 다중-웨이 방식의 SSD 전체적인 동작 원리를 리눅스 커널 수준에서 파악할 수 있다. 또한 FTL 개발을 위한 환경을 제공할 뿐만 아니라, 사용자가 다양한 SSD 구조를 설계하여 성능을 예측할 수 있도록 한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.12
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• pp.94-102
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• 2016

Recently, the I/O performance of a single node is rapidly improving due to the advent of high-performance SSD. As a result, the next-generation storage platform based on SSD has received a great deal of attention and such storage platforms are increasingly adopted to commodity servers or data centers that look for the high-bandwidth computation and I/O. However, building all SSD-based storage platform may not be cost-effective because the price per storage capacity is very high as compared to that of HDD. In this paper. we propose a hybrid file management solution, called HyPLVM(Hybrid Priority Logical Volume Manager), which combines the strength of SSD with the desirable aspects of low-price, high-storage capacity HDD. HyPLVM prioritizes the files and directories to be accessed by users, in order to determine the target storage device (SSD/HDD) in which files are allocated, while mitigating the cost of building storage platforms.