• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.378-381
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• 2009

유비쿼터스 센서네트워크는 다양한 환경에서 여러 가지 요구사항에 부합하기 위해 미들웨어 모델들을 필요로 하게 되었다. 지금까지 제안된 미들웨어 구조들은 특정 응용에 초점을 맞추거나 여러 가지 요구사항들을 수용하기에 적절치 않은 구조를 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 유비쿼터스 센서네트워크 환경에서 L4 마이크로커널 기반으로 미들웨어 시스템을 구성하는 것을 제안한다. L4 마이크로커널은 대표적인 2세대 마이크로 커널로써, 기존의 모놀리틱 커널의 구조적 문제점을 극복하기 위한 대안이 될 수 있다. 기존의 모놀리틱 커널은 임베디드시스템, 실시간 시스템과 같은 특수한 목적을 수행하는 시스템을 설계하는데 많은 제약사항을 가지고 있다. 유비쿼터스 센서네트워크 환경에서 L4 마이크로커널을 통한 시스템 구성은 전체 시스템의 안정성과 독립성을 보장하며, 특정 상황에 맞게 새로운 솔루션을 추가할 수 있는 유연성을 제공한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.236-246
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• 1999

최근 운영체제 개발분야에서 마이크로커널 설계 기술이 새로운 경향으로 부각되고 있다. 마이크로커널은 기존의 모노리딕 커널과 상이한 구조를 가지고 있으므로, 성능분석 튜닝을 위하여 새로운 도구를 필요로 한다. 본 논문에서는 마이크로커널 기반 운영체제를 위한 성능 측정도구 MKperf의 개발에 관하여 기술하고자 한다. MLperf 는 마이크로커널 r조의 성능에 중요한 영향을 미치는 문맥 교환과 원격 프로시저 호출을 추적할수 있다. 뿐만 아니라 , 캐시와 TLB와 같이 메모리 성능에 결정적인 영향을 미치는 다양한 하드웨어 성능요소들을 측정할수 있다. MDperf 의 이러한 측정 기능은 마이크로커널 기반 운영체제 성능을 정량적으로 분석하는데에 유용하게 사용될 수있다.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.5 no.9
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• pp.2404-2414
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• 1998

An operating system should be easy to extend and to be customized to accomodate the diverse needs when it is to support multiple personalities. Though microkernel is the best as architecture for such customization, it raises performance issues due to its intrinsic overhead in interprocess communication. In this paper, we present a new !PC mechanism that overcomes the traditional IPC performance lag by providing a direct bridge between processes. The communication overhead is similar to the one of local procedure call, which is the known minimal overhead. Even in its worst case, our scheme is shown to pcrfonn better than the other alternative, the message passing scheme.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.80-84
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• 2017

Existing operating systems experience scalability issues as the number of cores increases. The network I/O performance on manycore systems is faced with the major limiting factors of cache consistency costs and locking overheads. Legacy methods resolve this issue include the new microkernel-like operating system or modification of existing kernels; however, these solutions are not fully application transparent. In this study, we proposed a library that improves the network performance by separating system call context from user context and by applying the core affinity without any kernel and application modifications. Experiment results showed that our implementation can improve the network throughput of Apache by up to 30%.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.373-382
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• 2000

This paper is concerned with development of a communication module of POFS(Parallel Operating File System), which is the parallel file system to be operated on SPAX computer. SPAX is multiprocessor computer with clustering SMP architecture and being developed by ETRI. The operating system for SPAX is MISIX based on the Chorus microkernel. POFS has client/server architecture basically so that it is important to design a communication module. The communication module is so easily affected by network environment that bad design is the major reason that decreases the portability and performance of the parallel file system. This paper describes the structure and performance of the communication of the POFS. the theme is issued in the course of designing and developing POFS. The communication module of POFS was designed to support the portability and the architecture of parallel file system.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.143-152
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• 2002

As the multimedia application becomes ubiquitous, the size of message used for Inter Process Communication (IPC) grows up to cope with the requirements of multimedia applications. And the rapid development of new hardware platforms makes the portability of operating system more important. But the traditional micro-kernel operating system is Implemented platform dependently for better performance, and especially focused on handling short message. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of IPC mechanism in M3K (MultiMedia Micro-Kernel) to address the above problems. Our IPC mechanism provides enhanced performance and efficiently handles large message without performance degrading.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.339-347
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• 2010

Inter-process communication (IPC), which is a technique that enables exchanging data among multiple processes, is commonly used not only in user applications but also in system processes. For this reason, the performance of IPC highly influences the performance of whole computer system. Especially, heavy overload on a single server process caused by IPC requests from multiple client processes, easily results overall slowdown of IPC response time. Here, to deal with the problem stated above, the time-slice donation technique which is adapted in L4 microkernel is analyzed and enhanced for reducing latency of IPC response time and implemented on linux kernel for actual performance evaluation. While trying to maintain the additional overhead as least as possible, the experiment shows that the use of this technique enhances the performance of IPC multiple times of existing technique under certain circumstances.