• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.2404-2410
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• 2011

This paper describes the design overview of cluster file system $SANique^{TM}$ based on SAN(Storage Area Network) environment. The design issues and problems of the conventional global buffer manager are also illustrated under a large set of clustered computing hosts. We propose the efficient global buffer management method that provides the more scalability and availability. In our proposed global buffer management method, we reuse the maintained list of lock information from our cluster lock manager. The global buffer manger can easily find and determine the location of requested data block cache based on that lock information. We present the pseudo code of the global buffer manager and illustration of global cache operation in cluster environment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.394-397
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• 2003

In this paper, we describe the implementation of high performance buffer manager that is used in an advanced input-queued switch fabric. The designed buffer manager provides wire-speed cell/packet routing with low cost and tolerates the transmission pipeline latency of request and grant data. The buffer manager is implemented in a FPGA chip and supports the speed of OC-48c, 2.5Gbps per port.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.3 no.6
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• pp.1375-1385
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• 1996

As there has been much demands for processing multimedia data, a storage manager for multimedia data makes much effects on system performance. Because the size of multimedia data is usually very large, disk I/O for the data consumes much time and causes the system performance to be decreased. Therefore, it makes a better effect on system performance that a multimedia data storage manager decreases its disk I/O by the buffer management of multimedia data. This paper proposes a buffer management technique which allocates the buffer to be equal to its corresponding segment which consists of physically continuous disk page set and is disk management unit for multimedia data in many multimedia data storage manager. As the size of buffer varies, it also proposes a buffer replacement policy which consider not only reference behavior of buffer but also buffer size The proposed multimedia data buffer management technique is implemented in KORED/STORM which is a storage manager for multimedia data.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.134-145
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• 2004

With rapid growth in the amount of data transferred on the Internet, traditional storage systems have reached the limits of their capacity and performance. SAN (Storage Area Network), which connects hosts to disk with the Fibre Channel switches, provides one of the powerful solutions to scale the data storage and servers. In this environment, the maintenance of data consistency among hosts is an important issue because multiple hosts share the files on disks attached to the SAN. To preserve data consistency, each host can execute the disk I/O whenever disk read and write operations are requested. However, frequent disk I/O requests cause the deterioration of the overall performance of a SAN cluster. In this paper, we introduce a SANtopia global buffer manager to improve the performance of a SAN cluster reducing the number of disk I/Os. We describe the design and algorithms of the SANtopia global buffer manager, which provides a buffer cache sharing mechanism among the hosts in the SAN cluster. Micro-benchmark results to measure the performance of block I/O operations show that the global buffer manager achieves speed-up by the factor of 1.8-12.8 compared with the existing method using disk I/O operations. Also, File system micro-benchmark results show that SANtopia file system with the global buffer manager improves performance by the factor of 1.06 in case of directories and 1.14 in case of files compared with the file system without a global buffer manager.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.12C
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• pp.261-267
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• 2001

This paper presents the architecture of multiple-queue manager for input-queued switch, which has arbitration latency, and the design of the chip. The proposed architecture of multiple-queue manager provides wire-speed routing with a pipelined buffer management, and the tolerance of requests and grants data transmission latency between the input queue manager and central arbiter using a new request control method, which is based on a high-speed shifter. The multiple-input-queue manager has been implemented in a field programmable gate array chip, which provides OC-48c port speed. It enhances the maximum throughput of the input queuing switch up to 98.6% with 128-cell shared input buffer in 16$\times$16 switch size.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.11c
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• pp.212-214
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• 2004

Hardware implemented ring buffer systems and methods are presented for the effective management of the ring buffer in TCP/IP communication. The layer interface of the ring buffer systems transfer free buffer and used buffer size information to the TCP/IP stack upper or low layer. The pointer updation interface calculates a temporary pointer from the data size which is needed by the present pointer of the ring buffer and upper or lowyer layer. The pointer manager of the ring buffer systems is responsible for saving the present pointer of the ring buffer, updating the ring buffer pointer to the new pointer, calculating the free buffer size and used buffer size of the ring buffer, and transferring the information to the upper layer. The ring buffer systems help the TCP/IP layer and TCP/IP upper or lower layer to decide the sending or receiving data size effectively. The delay of transferring data can be lowered by the ring buffer system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.06b
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• pp.441-444
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 객체기반 IP 스토리지를 이용하여 모바일 기기에서 멀티미디어 콘텐츠 재생에 적합한 저전력 객체기반 모바일 스토리지 시스템 구조를 제안한다. 멀티미디어 콘텐츠의 재생 성능을 높이기 위해 모바일 단말 측 OSD 계층에 버퍼 캐시(buffer cache)와 선반입(prefetch) 기능을 추가한다. 그리고 모바일 단말의 WLAN 전력제어를 통하여 WLAN이 가능한 한 오랜 시간 동안 Sleep 상태 또는 Power Off 상태에 있을 수 있도록 하여 전력의 소비를 줄인다. 본 연구에서는 캐시 및 선반입 기능을 위해 버퍼 캐시관리자(buffer cache manager)와 선반입 관리자(prefetch manager)를 설계하였고, WLAN 전력관리 기능을 위해 WLAN 관리자(WLAN manager)를 설계하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.82.1-82
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• 2001

It is known that existence of irregular transmission time delay is a major bottleneck for application of advanced robot control schemes to internet telerobotic systems. In the internet teleoperation system, the irregular transmission time delay causes a critical problem, which is unstable and inaccurate. This paper suggests a practical internet teleoperation system with streaming buffer system, which consists of a buffer, a buffer manager, and a control timer. The proposed system converts the irregular transmission time delay to constant. So, the system effectively transmits the control input to a remote site to operate a robot stably and accurately. This feature enables short control input interval. That means the entire system has ...

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.8A no.4
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• pp.359-366
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• 2001

This paper overviews the design of SANique$^{TM}$ -a shred file system for Linux cluster based on SAN environment. SANique$^{TM}$ has the capability of transferring user data from network-attached SAN disks to client applcations directly without the control of centralized file server system. The paper also presents the characteristics of each SANique$^{TM}$ subsystem: CFM(Cluster File Manager), CVM(Cluster Volume Manager), CLM(Cluster Lock Manager), CBM(Cluster Buffer Manager) and CRM(Cluster Recovery Manager). Under the SANique$^{TM}$ design layout, then, the syndrome of '||'&'||'quot;split-brain'||'&'||'quot; in shared file system environments is described and defined. The work first generalizes and illustrates possible situations in each of which a shared file system environment may split into two or more pieces of separate brain. Finally, the work describes the SANique$^{TM}$ approach to the given "split-brain"problem using SAN disk named "split-brain" and develops the overall recovery procedure of shared file systems.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.12 no.12
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• pp.1710-1717
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• 2009

Flash memory has become the most important storage media in mobile devices along with its attractive features such as low power consumption, small size, light weight, and shock resistance. However, a flash memory can not be written before erased because of its erase-before-write characteristic, which lead to some garbage collection when there is not enough space to use. In this paper, we propose a novel garbage collection scheme, called block-level buffer garbage collection. When it is need to do merge operation during garbage collection, the proposed scheme does not merge the data block and corresponding log block but also search the block-level buffer to find the corresponding block which will be written to flash memory in the next future, and then decide whether merge it in advance or not. Our experimental results show that the proposed technique improves the flash performance up to 4.6% by reducing the unnecessary block erase numbers and page copy numbers.