• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.811-820
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• 1997

Disk arrays are using to enhance data trandfer rate and I/O performance in multimedia applications which need a high-performance storage device with large storage capacity and high-speed network.As performance varies with configuration and data layout scheme,disk array characteristic variables must be approrpriately deter-mined in desibning disk array archetecture for a speciffic applicatoin. In this paper,in order to design a disk array architecturte as a storage server of a small-scale VOD system,we evaluate performance of a disk array to chose the number of disks in the array,disk array cinfiguration,a degree of declustering for a given data block size of continous media file system and I/D request size through simulation.Simulation result shows that RAID level 5 with 5 disks ios a suitable candidate for the disk array architecture which privides MPEG-2 files with a rate of 6 Mbps,Moreover,we whow that stripe unit is 64 KB and a layout scheme is contigous placement.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.205-216
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• 2013

In this paper, we analyze a technique for building a high-availability (HA) cluster system. We propose what we have termed the 'Selective Replication Manager (SRM),' which improves the throughput performance and reduces the latency of disk devices by means of a Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD), which is integrated in the recent Linux Kernel (version 2.6.33 or higher) and that still provides HA and failover capabilities. The proposed technique can be applied to any disk replication and database system with little customization and with a reasonably low performance overhead. We demonstrate that this approach using SRM increases the disk replication speed and reduces latency by 17% and 7%, respectively, as compared to the existing DRBD solution. This approach represents a good effort to increase HA with a minimum amount of risk and cost in terms of commodity hardware.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1996.04a
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• pp.832-936
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• 1996

In this paper, we study a dynamic characteristics of HDD. HDD is constructed by spindle motor/disk unit, cover, base, E-block arm/suspension unit, and rotary actuator/voice coil motor. First, we make a FE model of spindle motor/disk unit and analyzed natural frequency/mode analytically and experimentally. Especially, the change of natural frequecy of spindle motor unit according to change of B.C is considered. Second, FE model of cover, base is made. Third, we assemble the above three FE mode, we get HEE assembly and dynamic analysis of HDD assembly is accomplished.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.04d
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• pp.253-255
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• 2003

Electricity is the prime commodity in mobile device, e.g. smart phone, PDA, MP3 player and etc. This strict restriction on power consumption requirement of the mobile device puts unique demand in designing hardware and software components of the device. In this paper, we address the issue of minimizing the power consumption in retrieving the continuous media data from the disk drive for real-time playback purpose. Different from the legacy text based data, real-time multimedia playback requires that the storage supplies the data block continuous fashion. This may put immense burden on the power scarce environment since the disk Is required to be active for the entire playback duration. We develop elaborate algorithm which carefully analyzes the power consumption profile of the disk drive and which establishes the data retrieval schedule for the given playback. It computes the amount of data blocks to read, the length of active and standby period. According to our simulation result, the ARM algorithm exhibits superior performance in continuous media retrieval from the aspect of power consumption to legacy playback scheme.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10c
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• pp.427-429
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• 2002

현재의 디스크 시스템 성능의 병목이 되는 부분은 disk 헤드의 느린 이동 속도이다. 일단 원하는 데이터가 있는 곳으로 헤드가 이동하고 나면, data는 초당 수십 MB의 속도로 memory에 전송될 수 있다. 만약에 작은 크기의 파일들이 디스크의 물리적인 block에 산재해 있다면, 이 파일들의 위치로 헤드가 이동하는 데에 많은 시간이 걸릴 것이다. 일반적으로 한 디렉토리 안에 들어있는 파일들은 비슷한 시간에 읽혀질 가능성이 크므로 이 파일들을 디스크의 인접한 block어 할당해 준다면 파일에 헤드가 접근하는 데 걸리는 시간을 크게 줄일 수 있을 것이다. 또 UNIX 계열의 OS가 파일을 관리하기 위해 사용하는 inode도 한 디렉토리 안의 파일을 가리키는 것들을 모두 인접하게 위치시킨다면 이 mode들을 찾기 위해 disk의 헤드가 움직이는 횟수를 줄일 수 있을 것이다. 이 두 가지 방법을 Linux OS를 platform으로 하여 구현하였다. 실험 결과 이러한 방법을 사용한 파일 시스템은 이전의 파일 시스템에 비해서 최고 44%까지 더 높은 성능을 보임을 알 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.93-98
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• 1999

Numerical simulation is conducted to clarify the heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics of brake disk-lining for rolling stock. Multiple rotational reference frame, k-epsilon turbulent model and SIMPLE algorithm based on finite volume method are used to solve the physical disk-lining model. The governing equations are solved by TDMA(TriDiagonal Matrix Algorithm) with line-by-line method and block correction, From the results of simulation, the characteristics of cooling pattern is strongly affected by the grooves in lining. The face lift of lining affects on the temperature distribution of rear surface of lining as well as the front surface of that. Due to the grooves in lining, it will be expected to extend the maintenance life circle of lining.

• International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.34-38
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• 2008

Commercially available magnetic barrel machines equipped with permanent magnets have certain limitations: work can only be finished effectively in limited areas of the container because permanent magnets are arranged two-dimensionally on the magnet disk. We overcame this problem by developing a new magnetic barrel machine equipped with a three-dimensional magnet arrangement. The effectiveness of the new machine has already been reported; this study improved the machine's polishing ability by changing the polarity of magnets on a magnet block. Polishing experiments confirmed the most effective arrangement of magnets on the magnet block. An alternating arrangement of north and south poles produced far superior polishing characteristics than a uniform arrangement of the same pole facing outward. Alternating polarity probably causes increased quantities of barrel media to work together. Finally, we introduced stronger permanent magnets to the magnet block, and found that the increased magnetic field also improved polishing ability.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.79-88
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• 2002

Data on the Internet are usually represented and transfered as XML. the XML data is represented as a tree and therefore, object repositories are well-suited to store and query them due to their modeling power. XML queries are represented as regular path expressions and evaluated by traversing each object of the tree in object repositories. Several indexes are proposed to fast evaluate regular path expressions. However, in some cases they may not cover all possible paths because they require a great amount of disk space. In order to efficiently evaluate the queries in such cases, we propose an optimized traversing which combines the signature method and block traversing. The signature approach shrink the search space by using the signature information attached to each object, which hints the existence of a certain label in the sub-tree. The block traversing reduces disk I/O by early evaluating the reachable objects in a page. We conducted diverse experiments to show that the hybrid approach achieves a better performance than the other naive ones.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.39-48
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• 2003

Previous analytical models for key blocks have been based on the assumption of infinite persistent discontinuities. In this paper, a key block analysis method considering the finite persistence of discontinuities is proposed as a stability evaluation method in tunnel constructions, and then applied to an actual example site. Three-dimensional rock block identification with consideration of the persistence of discontinuities is performed by using discontinuity disk model. The removability and stability analyses of rock blocks formed by the identification method are performed. The identification method can handle convex and concave shape blocks. In order to demonstrate the applicability of this developed numerical method to the stability evaluation in tunnel constructions, the analytical results are examined and compared one another.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.17A no.2
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• pp.63-72
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• 2010

Recently, the need for multimedia devices, such as digital TV, and camcorder has increased. These devices provide many services on multimedia files such as playing, recording, and editing. Throughout these services, in case of storing edited large-scaled multimedia files, existing file system have several capability problems that are taking too much time and requiring disk I/O. In this paper, we propose the use of Linux Ext2 file system based 'Block-Link file (BL-file) system' in order to solve these problems. For the BL-file system, when editing and storing large-scaled files, there is no data input or output but only modification of the metadata. Additionally, by sharing data blocks between multimedia files, we can save disk spaces. Moreover, because the managing of data block sharing information is more convenient than the existing FWAE technique, we can lessen system overhead. The BL-file system is based on Ext2 file system and implemented in a Linux environment, and the usefulness of the proposed technique is validated by applying the Linux multimedia file-editing tool 'Avidemux'.