• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.79-84
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• 2023

Due to the rapid performance improvement of smartphones, multitasking on mobile platforms has become an essential feature. Unlike traditional desktop or server environments, mobile applications are mostly interactive jobs where response time is important, and some applications are classified as real-time jobs with deadlines. When interactive and real-time jobs run concurrently, memory allocation between multitasking applications is a challenging issue as they have different time requirements. In this paper, we study how to allocate memory space when real-time and interactive jobs are simultaneously executed in a smartphone to meet the multitasking requirements between heterogeneous jobs. Specifically, we analyze the memory size required to satisfy the constraints of real-time jobs and present a new model for allocating memory space between heterogeneous multitasking jobs. Trace-driven simulations show that the proposed model provides reasonable performance for interactive jobs while guaranteeing the requirement of real-time jobs.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.9-17
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• 2019

In this article, we present a performance enhancement scheme for mobile applications by adopting persistent memory. The proposed scheme supports the deadline guarantee of real-time applications like a video player, and also provides reasonable performances for non-real-time applications. To do so, we analyze the program execution path of mobile software platforms and find two sources of unpredictable time delays that make the deadline-guarantee of real-time applications difficult. The first is the irregular activation of garbage collection in flash storage and the second is the blocking and time-slice based scheduling used in mobile platforms. We resolve these two issues by adopting high performance persistent memory as the storage of real-time applications. By maintaining real-time applications and their data in persistent memory, I/O latency can become predictable because persistent memory does not need garbage collection. Also, we present a new scheduler that exclusively allocates a processor core to a real-time application. Although processor cycles can be wasted while a real-time application performs I/O, we depict that the processor utilization is not degraded significantly due to the acceleration of I/O by adopting persistent memory. Simulation experiments show that the proposed scheme improves the deadline misses of real-time applications by 90% in comparison with the legacy I/O scheme used in mobile systems.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.51-72
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• 2015

Time predictability is crucial in hard real-time and safety-critical systems. Cache memories, while useful for improving the average-case memory performance, are not time predictable, especially when they are shared in multicore processors. To achieve time predictability while minimizing the impact on performance, this paper explores several time-predictable scratch-pad memory (SPM) based architectures for multicore processors. To support these architectures, we propose the dynamic memory objects allocation based partition, the static allocation based partition, and the static allocation based priority L2 SPM strategy to retain the characteristic of time predictability while attempting to maximize the performance and energy efficiency. The SPM based multicore architectural design and the related allocation methods thus form a comprehensive solution to hard real-time multicore based computing. Our experimental results indicate the strengths and weaknesses of each proposed architecture and the allocation method, which offers interesting on-chip memory design options to enable multicore platforms for hard real-time systems.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.230-239
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• 2011

Dynamic memory allocators for real-time embedded systems need to fulfill three fundamental requirements: bounded worst-case execution time, fast average execution time, and minimal fragmentation. Since embedded systems generally run continuously during their whole lifetime, fragmentation is one of the most important factors in designing the memory allocator. This paper focuses on minimizing fragmentation while other requirements are still satisfied. To minimize fragmentation, a part of a memory region is segregated by the proposed budgeting method that exploits the memory profile of the given application. The budgeting method can be applied for any existing memory allocators. Experimental results show that the memory efficiency of allocators can be improved by up to 18.85% by using the budgeting method. Its worst-case execution time is analyzed to be bounded.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.39-56
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• 2015

Continuous multi-interval prediction (CMIP) is used to continuously predict the trend of a data stream based on various intervals simultaneously. The continuous integrated hierarchical temporal memory (CIHTM) network performs well in CMIP. However, it is not suitable for CMIP in real-time mode, especially when the number of prediction intervals is increased. In this paper, we propose a real-time integrated hierarchical temporal memory (RIHTM) network by introducing a new type of node, which is called a Zeta1FirstSpecializedQueueNode (ZFSQNode), for the real-time continuous multi-interval prediction (RCMIP) of data streams. The ZFSQNode is constructed by using a specialized circular queue (sQUEUE) together with the modules of original hierarchical temporal memory (HTM) nodes. By using a simple structure and the easy operation characteristics of the sQUEUE, entire prediction operations are integrated in the ZFSQNode. In particular, we employed only one ZFSQNode in each level of the RIHTM network during the prediction stage to generate different intervals of prediction results. The RIHTM network efficiently reduces the response time. Our performance evaluation showed that the RIHTM was satisfied to continuously predict the trend of data streams with multi-intervals in the real-time mode.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.232-241
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• 2018

Operational Transformation (OT) algorithms for real-time collaborative editing systems are becoming increasingly important due to the increased demand for collaborative data processing. The operational transformation algorithm is a technique for real-time concurrency control and consistency maintenance with non-locking technique, and many studies have been conducted to overcome three issues of convergence, causality-prevention, and intention-prevention. However, previous work has the disadvantage of wasting memory by storing all operations that occurred during an edit operation in the history buffer to solve this problem. Therefore, we propose a memory-saving real-time collaborative editing system that maintains a constant memory space and concurrency control through a method of applying the valid-time to each user-generated operation in order to reduce memory waste. This system prevents long-term memory occupation of client-generated operations, thus it reduces the space and time complexity even with low-rate of collaboration work, so that the performance degradation avoids.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회논문지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.23-34
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• 2002

Dynamic storage allocation (DSA) is a field fairly well studied for a long time as a basic problem of system software area. Due to memory fragmentation problem of DSA and its unpredictable worst case execution time, real-time system designers have believed that DSA may not be promising for real-time application service. Recently, the need for an efficient DSA algorithm is widely discussed and the algorithm is considered to be very important in the real-time system. This paper proposes an efficient DSA algorithm called QSB (quick semi-buddy) which is designed to be suitable for real-time environment. QSB scheme effectively maintains free lists based on quick-fit approach to quickly accommodate small and frequent memory requests, and the other free lists devised with adaptation upon a typical binary buddy mechanism for bigger requests in harmony for the .improved performance. Comprehensive simulation results show that the proposed scheme outperforms QHF which is known to be effective in terms of memory fragmentation up to about 16%. Furthermore, the memory allocation failure ratio is significantly decreased and the worst case execution time is predictable.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1998년도 추계학술대회 논문집 학회본부 B
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• pp.672-674
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• 1998

Java virtual machine has the garbage collector that automate memory management. Mark-compact algorithm is one of the garbage collection algorithm that operating in 2 phases, marking and sweeping. One is Marking is marking live objects reachable from root object set. Sweeping is sweeping unmarked object from memory(return to free memory pool). This algorithm is easy to implement but cause a memory fragmentation. So compacting memory, before memory defragmentation become serious. When compacting memory, all other processes are suspended. It is critical for embedded system that must guarantee real-time processing. This paper introduce enhanced mark-compact garbage collection algorithm. Grouping the objects by their size that minimize memory fragmentation. Then apply smart algorithm to the grouped objects when allocating objects and compacting memory.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.71-76
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• 2021

최근 사물인터넷의 데이터가 대용량화됨에 따라 실시간 시스템의 메모리 전력 소모가 급증하고 있다. 이는 실시간 시스템이 태스크 전체를 항상 메모리에 올려놓고 처리함으로 인한 DRAM 용량 증가에 기인한다. 본 논문은 최근 각광 받는 고속 스토리지를 활용하여 실시간 태스크의 일부를 스토리지에 내려놓고 필요시 메모리에 올리는 전력 절감 기술을 제안한다. 또한, 이를 CPU의 동적 전압조절 기법과 결합하여 CPU와 메모리의 전력 절감을 동시에 최적화한다. 제안하는 기술은 CPU의 유휴시간을 최대한 줄이는 전압 모드를 결정하는 동시에 메모리 크기를 최소화하는 스왑 비율을 결정하여, 태스크의 데드라인을 어기지 않으면서 전력 소모를 최소화하는 최적의 조합을 탐색한다. 시뮬레이션 실험을 통해 제안하는 기술이 실시간 시스템의 전력 소모를 크게 줄임을 보인다.

• 정보처리학회논문지D
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• 제10D권2호
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• pp.187-194
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• 2003

주기억장치 자료저장 시스템은 실시간 트랜젝션에 충분한 여유 시간을 부여하여 실시간 트랜잭션의 성능을 높혀준다. 이런 특성으로 인하여 주기억장치를 이용한 데이터관리 시스템들이 이동 통신 관리 시스템의 가입자 위치 관리와 같은 여유시간의 급박한 실시간 트랜잭션에 많이 활용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 다중 사용자용 멀티쓰레드 방식의 실시간 검색시스템 개발의 일환으로 대량의 실시간 검색 트랜잭션과 자료 변경 트랜잭션이 주기억장치 자료저장 시스템의 자료를 검색, 변경하는 환경에서 주기억장치 자료저장 시스템을 설계 구현하였다. 구현된 시스템은 기존의 디스크 데이터베이스 시스템과 상호 보완적인 형태로 사용되는 내장형 방식으로 다중 쓰레드 방식으로 동작되며, 동시성 제어는 주기억장치의 특성을 살려 복잡한 잠금방식이 아닌 래치를 사용한다. 주기억장치 자료저장 시스템에는 가장 최근의 데이터만을 저장하며, 동기화 기법으로는 디스크 데이터베이스 시스템에서 변경 트랜잭션이 발생하는 경우에 구현 시스템의 데이터를 갱신하는 방법을 사용한다. 시스템은 검색 및 변경 쓰레드의 비율을 제한하여 실시간 검색의 최소성능을 보장할 수 있게 하였다.