• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.13 no.4
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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.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.173-189
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• 2009

Recently, video data has attracted many interest. That is the reason why efficient indexing schemes are required to support the content-based retrieval of video data. But most indexing schemes are not suitable for indexing a high-dimensional data except Hybrid Spill-Tree. In this paper, we propose an efficient high-dimensional indexing scheme to support the content-based retrieval of video data. For this, we extend Hybrid Spill-Tree by using a newly designed clustering technique and by adopting a signature method. Finally, we show that proposed signature-based high dimensional indexing scheme achieves better retrieval performance than existing M-Tree and Hybrid Spill-Tree.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.04a
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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.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.111-123
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• 2005

Many indexing methods were proposed so that process moving object efficiently. Among them, indexing methods like the 3D R-tree treat temporal and spatial domain as the same. Actually, however. both domain had better process separately because of difference in character and unit. Especially in this paper we deal with limited region such as indoor environment since spatial domain is limited but temporal domain is grown. In this paper we present a novel indexing structure, namely STS-tree(Separation of Time and Space tree). based on limited region. STS-tree is a hybrid tree structure which consists of R-tree and one-dimensional TB-tree. The R-tree component indexes static object and spatial information such as topography of the space. The TB-tree component indexes moving object and temporal information.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.521-531
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• 2003

Multi-level geographic data can be mainpulated by a window query such as a zoom operation. In order to handle multi-level geographic data efficiently, a spatial indexing method supporting a window query is needed. However, the conventional spatial indexing methods are not efficient to access multi-level geographic data quickly. To solve it, other a few spatial indexing methods for multi-level geographic data are known. However these methods do not support all types of multi-level geographic data. This paper presents a new efficient spatial indexing method, the MLR-tree for window query of multi-level geographic data. The MLR-tree offers both high search performance and no data redundancy. Experiments show them. Moreover, the MLR-tree supports all types of multi-level geographic data.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.12
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• pp.3469-3476
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• 1999

In spatial database based on spatial data structures, instead of one-dimensional indexing structure, new indexing structure which corresponds to multi-dimensional features of spatial objects is required. In order to meet those requirements, in this paper we proposed new indexing structure for efficient retrieval of spatial database by carrying through the feature analysis of conventional multi-dimensional indexing structures. To improve the sequential search method of supernodes in the conventional X-tree and to reduce the retrieval time in case of generating the huge supernode, we proposed a indexing structure integrating the kd-tree based on point index structure into the X-tree. We implemented the proposed indexing structure and analyzed its retrieval time according to the dimension and distribution of experimental data.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.141-150
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• 2008

In this mobile computing environment, data broadcasting is widely used to resolve the problem of limited power and bandwidth of mobile equipments. Most previous broadcast indexing methods concentrate on flat data. However. with the growing popularity of XML, an increasing amount of information is being stored and exchanged in the XML format. We propose a novel indexing method. called TOP tree(Tree Ordering based Path summary tree), for indexing XML document on mobile broadcast environments. TOP tree is a path summary tree which provides a concise structure summary at group level using global IDs and element information at local level using local IDs. Based on the TOP tree representation, we suggest a broadcast stream generation and query Processing method that efficiently handles not only simple Path queries but also multiple path queries. We have compared our indexing method with other indexing methods. Evaluation results show that our approaches can effectively improve the access time and tune-in time in a wireless broadcasting environment.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.266-277
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• 2019

In modern warfare, securing time for preemptive response is recognized as an important factor of victory. The naval combat system, the core of naval forces, also strives to increase the effectiveness of engagement by improving its real-time information processing capabilities. As part of that, it is considered to use the TPR-tree in the naval combat system's target indexing because spatio-temporal searches can be performed quickly even as the number of target information increases. However, because the TPR-tree is slow to process updates, there is a limitation to handling frequent updates. In this paper, we present a method for improving the update performance of TPR-tree by applying the bottom-up update scheme, previously proposed for R-tree, to the TPR-tree. In particular, we analyze the causes of overlaps occurring when applying the bottom-up updates and propose ways to limit the MBR expansion to solve it. Our experimental results show that the proposed technique improves the update performance of TPR-tree from 3.5 times to 12 times while maintaining search performance.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.758-762
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• 2008

Embedded systems usually utilize Flash Memories with very nice characteristics of non-volatility, low access time, low power and so on. For the multimedia database systems, R-tree is an indexing tree with nice characteristics for multimedia access. MR-tree, which is an upgraded version of R-tree, has shown better performance in searching, inserting and deleting operations than R-tree. Flash memory has sectors and blocks as a unit of read, write and delete operations. Especially, the delete is done on a unit of 512 byte blocks with very large operation time and it is also known that read and write operations on a unit of block matches caching nature of MT-tree. Our research optimizes MR-tree operations in a unit of Flash memory blocks. Such an adjusting leads in better indexing performance in database accesses. With MR-tree on a 512B block units we achieved fast search time of database indexing with low height of MR-tree as well as faster update time of database indexing with the best fit of flash memory blocks. Thus MR-tree with optimized operations shows good characteristics to be a database index schemes on any systems with flash memory.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.70-74
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• 2010

As the storage capacity of the flash memories increased portable devices began to store mass amount of multimedia data on flash memory. Therefore, there has been a need for an effective data management scheme by indexing structure. Among many indexing schemes, M-tree is well known for it's suitability for multimedia data with high dimensional matrix space. Since flash memories have writing operation restriction, there is a performance limitation in indexing scheme with frequent write operation. In this paper, a new node split method with reduced write operation for m-tree indexing scheme in flash memory is proposed. According to experiments the proposed method reduced the write operation to about 7% of the original method. The proposed method will effectively construct an indexing structure for multimedia data in flash memories.