• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.8D no.3
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• pp.265-272
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• 2001

In case of implementing a complicated application like WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) in a mobile terminal with the characteristics of bare machine and versatile kernel aspects of which are control, interrupt and IPC(Inter Process Communication), a special methodology should be needed. If not, it will cause more cost and human resources, even delayed product into launching for the time-to-market. This paper suggests AKL, (Abstract Kernel Layer) for the design and implementation of WAP on basis of multi-platform. AKL is running on the various kernel including REX, MS-DOS, MS-Window, UNIX and LINUX. For the purpose of it, AKL makes machine-dependant features be minimized and supports a consistent interface on API (Application Program Interface) point of view. Therefore, it makes poring times of a device be shorten and makes easy of maintenance. We validated our suggestion as a consequent of porting WAP into PlamV PDA and mobile phone with AKL.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.139-146
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• 2007

Most of embedded systems have been developed practically based on the PC platform equipped with Intel x86 CPU since it is able to reduce the total time for product development and improve the reliability of product by making use of a variety of solutions developed for a long time in the PC environment. Also, embedded systems based on PC-platform mainly use a high-capacity hard disk as data storage device for applications intending to store multimedia data. Recently, while the capacity of hard disk is increasing rapidly, the start-up ready time of hard disk is growing longer more than 30 seconds. The lengthened start-up ready time may delay the booting time of embedded system seriously, weighting users down with inconvenience. This paper proposes the refined system architecture and the dynamic IDE device probing method for fast booting of linux kernel in the embedded system based on PC platform with high-capacity hard disks, and the performance of proposed methods is evaluated and presented.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.709-714
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• 2017

Structures like bridges or buildings need to be checked continuously to diagnose their safety. However, it is extremely difficult for the people who access such structures to check all areas directly. To overcome this problem, there is a lot of active research into structural health monitoring (SHM) with wireless sensor nodes (WSNs). In this paper, for more accurate checking of SHM with WSNs, we experimentally compare and evaluate the performance of Xenomai, which provides real-time processing under the traditional Linux kernel. For this purpose, we patch Xenomai into the traditional Linux kernel of a commercial embedded board, Raspberry Pi, and implement a task that periodically reads vibration data of the z-axis from an accelerometer in order to analyze the natural frequency of cantilever beams. Reading the data from the traditional Linux kernel with the same method, we analyze the natural frequency of the cantilever beams using Smart Office Analyzer. Finally, to review the validity of Xenomai for WSNs, we obtain vibration data on the z-axis from the accelerometer via wired network and compared and analyzed them the same way.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.137-140
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• 2003

대부분의 기존 임베디드 웹 서버 시스템은 어떤 특정 기기를 제어하기 위하여 고안되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 StrongArm 계열의 SA1110 chip을 채택하여 H/W 보드를 설계하고 최적의 웹 서버를 만들었다. 최근 널리 사용되고 있는 SA1110 H/W 보드 설계 중 Ethernet Controller인 CS8900A 설계에 관한 세부 사항들과 Ethernet 관련 Kernel patch에 대한 내용을 다루었다. 그리고 CS8900A에 대한 Network device driver 모듈에 대하여 자세히 언급하며, 제작된 보드를 사용하여 웹 서버 프로그램을 작성하여 MS 익스플로러 6.0환경에서 실험하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.2084-2100
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• 2020

Operating system (OS) kernel function call graphs have been widely used in OS analysis and defense. However, most existing methods and tools for generating function call graphs are designed for application programs, and cannot be used for generating OS kernel function call graphs. This paper proposes a virtualization-based call graph generation method called Acquire in Trap (AIT). When target kernel functions are called, AIT dynamically initiates a system trap with the help of a virtualization technique. It then analyzes and records the calling relationships for trap handling by traversing the kernel stacks and the code space. Our experimental results show that the proposed method is feasible for both Linux and Windows OSs, including 32 and 64-bit versions, with high recall and precision rates. AIT is independent of the source code, compiler and OS kernel architecture, and is a universal method for generating OS kernel function call graphs.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.85-87
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 리눅스 클러스터에서 커널 수준의 응용 프로그램 개발을 위한 통신 모듈인 KCCM(Kernel level Cluster Communication Module)에 대한 구조를 기술한다. KCCM은 비동기 통신을 지원하기 위한 응용 프로그램 인터페이스와 송수신(Send/ Receive)형태의 동기 통신을 지원하기 위한 응용 프로그램 인터페이스를 함께 제공하며, 다른 플랫폼으로의 포팅을 고려하여 소켓 인터페이스를 이용해 구현되었다. 또한 장애 상황에서도 서비스를 계속하고 장애를 복구할 수 있도록 설계되어 커널 수준의 고 가용성 클러스터 응용 프로그램을 개발하는데 유용하다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.517-519
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• 2004

본 연구는 날로 다양하고 복잡해지고 있는 임베디드 시스템에서 필수로 요구되는 운영체제의 주요 기술적 과제중 하나인 효율적으로 메모리를 사용할 수 있는 메모리 보호기능을 설계하여 리눅스 상에 구현하였다. 이는 현재 사용되고 있는 않은 임베디드 리눅스에 직접 적용하여 실제적인 메모리 관리 성능향상을 가져오며, 또한 차세대 메모리로 주목받고 있는 PRAM등 차세대 NVRAM에서의 필요성이 특히 부각된다는 점에서 그 중요성이 크다.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.42 no.12
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• pp.1486-1494
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• 2015

While Linux-based mobile devices such as smartphones are increasingly used, they often exhibit poor response time. One of the factors that influence the user-perceived interactivity is the high page fault rate of interactive tasks. Pages owned by interactive tasks can be removed from the main memory due to the memory contention between interactive and background tasks. Since this increases the page fault rate of the interactive tasks, their executions tend to suffer from increased delays. This paper proposes a framework-assisted selective page protection mechanism for improving interactivity of Linux-based mobile devices. The framework-assisted selective page protection enables the run-time system to identify interactive tasks at the framework level and to deliver their IDs to the kernel. As a result, the kernel can maintain the pages owned by the identified interactive tasks and avoid the occurrences of page faults. The experimental results demonstrate the selective page protection technique reduces response time up to 11% by reducing the page fault rate by 37%.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.45 no.9
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• pp.71-78
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• 2008

In this paper, we implement the H.264/AVC baseline decoder by hardware-software partitioning under the embedded Linux Kernel 2.4.26 and the FPGA-based target board with ARM926EJ-S core. We design several IPs for the time-demanding blocks, such as motion compensation, deblocking filter, and YUV-to-RGB and they are communicated with the host through the AMBA bus protocol. We also try to minimize the number of memory accesses between IPs and the reference software (JM 11.0) which is ported in the embedded Linux. The proposed IPs and the system have been designed and verified in several stages. The proposed system decodes the QCIF sample video at 2 frame per second when 24MHz of system clock is running and we expect the bitter performance if the proposed system is designed with ASIC.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.209-216
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• 2023

Modern HPC systems are equipped with many-core CPUs with dozens of cores. When performing parallel I/O in such a system, there is a limit to scalability due to the problem of the LRU lock management policy of the Linux system. The study proposes an improved FinerLRU to solve this problem. Our new FinerLRU improves the parallel write performance of file systems using the buffer cache through granular lock management by increasing the number of LRU locks upto the maximum number of cores. The proposed method was implemented in Linux 5.18.11, and the performance was measured on two types of CPUs, Intel Icelake Xeon and Intel Knights landing, with different characteristics, and it was found that a performance improvement of about two times can be obtained in both types of systems.