• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.567-582
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• 2000

We propose a new way of managing flash memory space for flash memory-specific file system based on log-structured file system. Flash memory has attractive features such as non-volatility, and fast I/O speed, but it also suffers from inability to update in place and limited usage cycles. These drawbacks require many changes to conventional storage (file) management techniques. Our focus is on lowering cleaning cost and evenly utilizing flash memory cells while maintaining a balance between the two often-conflicting goals. The proposed cleaning method performs well especially when storage utilization and the degree of locality are high. The cleaning efficiency is enhanced by dynamically separating cold data and non-cold data. The second goal, cycle-leveling is achieved to the degree where the maximum difference between erase cycles is below the error range of the hardware. Simulation results show that the proposed method has significant benefit over naxve methods: maximum of 35% reduction in cleaning cost with even spreading writes across segments.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.247-254
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• 2013

Storage Class Memory(SCM), such as PRAM, FRAM and MRAM, are expected to be comparable to DRAM in terms of access speed and to Flash memory in terms of capacity in a near future. In this paper, assuming that not only the secondary storage (HDD or Flash memory) but also the primary memory (DRAM) will be replaced by SCM in the future computer systems, we propose an efficient file access framework for the SCM based computer systems. The proposed framework do not assign exclusive area in the SCM to the file system and uses various memory-related techniques, such as unified data access path, zero-copy data read using file mapping, copy-on-write, and multiple page pre-faulting for file management. Based on the preliminary experimental results, we could conclude that the proposed framework can be an efficient baseline for designing a new operating system for the SCM based computer systems.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.98-113
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• 2009

Conventional file systems for harddisk drive cannot be applied to NAND flash memory, because the physical characteristics of NAND flash memory differs from those of harddisk drive. To address this problem, various file systems with better reliability and efficiency have also been developed recently. However, those file systems have inherent overheads for updating the file's metadata pages, because those file systems save file's meta-data and data separately. Furthermore, those file systems have a critical reliability problem: file systems fail when either a page in meta-data of a file system or a file itself fails. In this paper, we propose a self-description page technique and In Memory Core File System technique to address these efficiency and reliability problems, and develop SDFS(Self-Description File System) newly. SDFS can be safely recovered, although some pages fail, and improves write and read performance by 36% and 15%, respectively, and reduces mounting time by 1/20 compared with YAFFS2.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.29-33
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• 2024

Recent advancements in mobile apps have led to continuously increasing memory demands on smartphone systems. Unlike desktops, which use swap functions to backup the entire memory footprint to storage when memory space is exhausted, smartphones terminate apps and lose significant context. This occurs because large-scale I/O operations to flash memory cause severe delays when swap is enabled on smartphones. This paper discusses how efficient memory management can be performed by using eMRAM, which is faster in write operations than flash memory, as the swap area in mobile systems. Considering the characteristics of backup storage (i.e., flash memory for the file system and eMRAM for the swap areas) as well as the reference characteristics of each page, we demonstrate that the proposed memory allocation and reclamation policies can improve the smartphone's I/O performance by an average of 15%.

• Journal of Korea Spatial Information System Society
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• v.8 no.2 s.17
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• pp.53-73
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• 2006

Recently, the need for Location-Based Services (LBS) has increased due to the development of mobile devices, such as PDAs, cellular phones and GPS. As a moving object database that stores and manages the positions of moving objects is the core technology of LBS, the scheme for maintaining the main memory DBMS to the server is necessary to store and process frequent reported positions of moving objects efficiently. However, previous works on a moving object database have studied mostly a disk based moving object index that is not guaranteed to work efficiently in the main memory DBMS because these indexes did not consider characteristics of the main memory. It is necessary to study the main memory index scheme for a moving object database. In this paper, we propose the main memory index scheme based on the R-tree for storing and processing positions of moving objects efficiently in the main memory DBMS. The proposed index scheme, which uses a growing node structure, prevents the splitting cost from increasing by delaying the node splitting when a node overflows. The proposed scheme also improves the search performance by using a MergeAndSplit policy for reducing overlaps between nodes and a LargeDomainNodeSplit policy for reducing a ratio of a domain size occupied by node's MBRs. Our experiments show that the proposed index scheme outperforms the existing index scheme on the maximum 30% for range queries.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.109-118
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• 2007

Recently, flash memory is used to store data in mobile computing devices such as PDAs, SmartCards, mobile phones and MP3 players. These devices need index structures like the B-tree to efficiently support some operations like insertion, deletion and search. The BFTL(B-tree Flash Translation Layer) technique was first introduced which is for implementing the B-tree on flash memory. Flash memory has characteristics that a write operation is more costly than a read operation and an overwrite operation is impossible. Therefore, the BFTL method focuses on minimizing the number of write operations resulting from building the B-tree. However, we indicate in this paper that there are many rooms of improving the performance of the I/O cost in building the B-tree using this method and it is not practical since it increases highly the usage of the SRAM memory storage. In this paper, we propose a BOF(the B-tree On Flash memory) approach for implementing the B-tree on flash memory efficiently. The core of this approach is to store index units belonging to the same B-tree node to the same sector on flash memory in case of the replacement of the buffer used to build the B-tree. In this paper, we show that our BOF technique outperforms the BFTL or other techniques.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.109-115
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• 2014

The aim of the study is to present a method to build an octree and to query from it for huge 3D point clouds of which volumes correspond or surpass the main memory, based on the memory-efficient octree developed by Han(2013). To the end, the method directly refers to 3D point cloud stored in a file on a hard disk drive instead of referring to that duplicated in the main memory. In addition, the method can save time to rebuild octree by storing and restoring it from a file. The memory-referring method and the present file-referring one are analyzed using a dataset composed of 18 million points surveyed in a tunnel. In results, the memory-referring method enormously exceeded the speed of the file-referring one when generating octree and querying points. Meanwhile, it is remarkable that a still bigger dataset composed of over 300 million points could be queried by the file-referring method, which would not be possible by the memory-referring one, though an optimal octree destination level could not be reached. Furthermore, the octree rebuilding method proved itself to be very efficient by diminishing the restoration time to about 3% of the generation time.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.47 no.1
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• pp.20-27
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• 2010

This paper describes a design of 5-stage pipelined de-blocking filter with power reduction scheme and proposes a efficient memory architecture and filter order for high performance H.264/AVC Decoder. Generally the de-blocking filter removes block boundary artifacts and enhances image quality. Nevertheless filter has a few disadvantage that it requires a number of memory access and iterated operations because of filter operation for 4 time to one edge. So this paper proposes a optimized filter ordering and efficient hardware architecture for the reduction of memory access and total filter cycles. In proposed filter parallel processing is available because of structured 5-stage pipeline consisted of memory read, threshold decider, pre-calculation, filter operation and write back. Also it can reduce power consumption because it uses a clock gating scheme which disable unnecessary clock switching. Besides total number of filtering cycle is decreased by new filter order. The proposed filter is designed with Verilog-HDL and functionally verified with the whole H.264/AVC decoder using the Modelsim 6.2g simulator. Input vectors are QCIF images generated by JM9.4 standard encoder software. As a result of experiment, it shows that the filter can make about 20% total filter cycles reduction and it requires small transposition buffer size.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06a
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• pp.245-247
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• 2012

최근 멀티코어 프로세서의 활용이 대중화되고 있다. 멀티코어 시스템에서는 소프트웨어가 동시에 여러 코어를 사용하여 동작을 수행 할 때 성능 향상 효과를 얻을 수 있다. 즉, 하나의 소프트웨어가 여러 코어를 동시에 사용할 수 있는 멀티스레드 프로그래밍 기법을 사용할 때 성능을 높일 수 있다. 이러한 환경에서 효율적인 메모리 할당은 데스크톱, 서버 및 과학 등과 같은 응용에 매우 중요하다. 하지만, 동적으로 메모리를 할당하는 것은 메모리 할당 연산과 반환 연산 및 어떤 스레드가 다른 스레드의 힙 영역에 접근하는 것을 처리하기 위한 동기화 문제로 인한 오버헤드가 발생하여 성능에 영향을 끼치는 문제가 발생하게 된다. 따라서 이와 같은 환경에서 실제로 성능에 어느 정도 영향을 끼칠 것인가를 측정할 수 있는 도구가 필요하다. 이에 멀티코어 환경에서 멀티스레드 기법을 사용하여 메모리 할당 연산이 성능에 어떠한 영향을 끼치는지를 측정 및 평가할 수 있는 시뮬레이터인 MAES(Memory Allocation Evaluation Simulator)를 설계하고 구현한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Cognitive Science Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.255-260
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• 2005

번역 메모리(Translation Memory)는 오늘날 기계번역에 있어 통계기반 접근법이나 형태-통사적 접근법 모두에 있어 가장 중요한 요소로 평가되고 있다. 그러나 번역 메모리는 언어의 자질 및 각 용례를 통합적으로 관리해야 하며, 이를 기계가 자동으로 처리해주어야 하는 어려움이 있다. 최근에는 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 다국적 기업을 중심으로 기계보조번역(Computer Aided Translation) 환경에 대한 연구가 활발히 이루어지고 있으나, 언어적인 특성 보다는 번역 메모리의 저장/대치적 측면에서 주요 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 이 논문에서는 번역 메모리 정보가 보다 높은 재사용성을 보이기 위해서는 다양한 언어자질값을 담을 수 있어야 한다고 보고, 이를 효율적으로 관리/구축할 수 있는 기계보조번역 워크벤치의 framework을 제시한다. 언어분석을 위한 대상언어로는 교역 및 기술 측면에서 영어, 일어, 중국어 다음으로 영향력이 높은 불어를 채택하며, 기존 기계보조번역 방식에 대한 고찰을 통해 개선된 번역 메모리 관리, 자동분석/번역 모듈 및 협업(collaboration) 방안에 대해 소개하고, 향후 발전방향에 대해 논의한다.