• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.9C no.5
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• pp.709-718
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• 2002

Cluster based VOD systems require elaborate load balancing and buffer management techniques in order to ensure real-time display for multiuser concurrently. In this paper, we propose a new load balancing technique based on the dynamic buffer partitioning in cluster based VOD servers. The proposed technique evenly distribute the user requests into each service node according to its available buffer capacity and disk access rate. In each node, the dynamic buffer partitioning technique dynamically partitions the buffer to minimize the average waiting time for the requests that access the same continuous media. The simulation results show that our proposed technique decreases the average waiting time by evenly distributing the user requests compared with the exiting techniques and then increases the throughput in each node. Particularly under the overloaded condition in the cluster server, the simulation probes that the performance of the proposed technique is better two times than the Generalized Interval Caching based technique.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.35-44
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• 2003

The effectiveness of buffer cache replacement algorithms is critical to the performance of I/O systems. In this paper, we propose the degree of inter-reference gap (DIG) based block replacement scheme that retains merits of the least recently used (LRU) such as simple implementation and good cache hit ratio (CHR) for general patterns of references, and improves CHR further. In the proposed scheme, cache blocks with low DIGs are distinguished from blocks with high DIGs and the replacement block is selected among high DIGs blocks as done in the low inter-reference recency set (LIRS) scheme. Thus, by having the effect of the partitioning the cache memory dynamically based on DIGs, CHR is improved. Trace-driven simulation is employed to verified the superiority of the DIG based scheme and shows that the performance improves up to about 175% compared to the LRU scheme and 3% compared to the LIRS scheme for the same traces.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.40 no.10
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• pp.8-15
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• 2003

In this paper, we address how to provide absolute differentiated services for optical burst switching (OBS) networks based on dynamic wavelength assignment. Unlike existing quality of service (QoS), such as buffer-based and offset-time based scheme, our proposed dynamicvirtual lambda partitioning (DVLP) scheme does not mandate any buffer or extra offset time, but can achieve absolute service differentiation between classes. This new DVLP scheme shares wavelength resources based on several different priority of classes in an efficient and QoS guaranteed manner. The performance results show that the proposed scheme effectively guarantees a target blocking probability of each traffic classes both in Poisson and Self-similar traffic environment.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.5 no.1 s.8
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• pp.100-110
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• 2001

In this paper, we investigated several buffer management schemes for the design of shared-memory type ATM switches, which can enhance the utilization of switch resources and can support quality-of-service (QoS) functionalities. Our results show that dynamic threshold (DT) scheme demonstrate a moderate degree of robustness close to pushout(PO) scheme, which is known to be impractical in the perspective of hardware implementation, under various traffic conditions such as traffic loads, burstyness of incoming traffic, and load non-uniformity across output ports. Next, we considered buffer management strategies to support QoS functions, which utilize parameter values obtained via connection admission control (CAC) procedures to set tile threshold values. Through simulations, we showed that the buffer management schemes adopted behave well in the sense that they can protect regulated traffic from unregulated cell traffic in allocating buffer space. In particular, it was observed that dynamic partitioning is superior in terms of QoS support than virtual partitioning.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.9A no.2
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• pp.137-146
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• 2002

In VOD server, in order to guarantee playback of continuous media, such as video, without hiccups for multiusers, the server has to manage its buffer sophisticatedly by prefeching a part of the data into the buffer As the continuous media data buffered by one user can be used again by the others, the number of disk accesses is reduced and then the latency time far the users is also reduced. In this paper, we propose a new buffer management technique for continuous media in VOD server. Our basic algorithm partitions the buffer into groups and then a group of buffer which has the lowest utilization is chosen and partitioned again for a new user. The basic algorithm is extended for supporting multiple streams and clip data and for providing VCR functions. Our proposed technique is able to increase in the number of concurrent users as increasing the utilization of the buffer and to minimize the average waiting time for multiuser accesses as the bandwidth of storage is slowly reached to the limit. In the simulation study for comparing the performance of our technique with that of the existing techniques, we show that the average waiting time is reduced mere than 50% and the number of concurrent users increases by 1 ∼5% as compared with those of the exiting techniques.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.244-246
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• 2002

클러스터 기반의 VOD 서버는 동시에 여러 사용자에게 실시간으로 고품질 서비스를 위해 정교한 부하 분산 기술과 버퍼관리 기술을 요구한다. 본 논문은 클러스터 기반 VOD 서버에서 동적 버퍼 분할을 이용한 새로운 부하분산 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법은 사용자 요청을 처리하는 서비스 노드간의 버퍼 성능과 디스크 접근 빈도를 고려하여 노드 부하를 고르게 분산한다. 또한 동적 버퍼 분할 기법은 동일한 연속 매체에 접근하려는 여러 사용자에게 평균 대기시간을 감소시킬 수 있도록 버퍼를 동적으로 분할한다. 각 서비스 노드에서 동적 버퍼 분할로 발생하는 버퍼 정보를 유지함으로써 각 서비스 노드의 버퍼 재사용을 극대화할 수 있다. 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안된 기법이 효율적인 버퍼 관리로 노드 부하 균등화, 사용자 평균 대기시간 감소, 병행 사용자 수 증가 등의 성능 향상을 얻었다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.217-220
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• 2002

본 논문은 클러스터 기반의 VOD 서버에서 동적 버퍼 분할을 이용한 새로운 부하 분산 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법은 사용자 요청을 처리하는 서비스 노드간의 버퍼 성능과 디스크 접근 빈도를 고려하여 전체 부하를 고르게 분산하도록 한다. 또한 동적 버퍼 분할 기법은 통일한 연속매체에 접근하려는 여러 사용자에게 평균 대기시간을 감소시킬 수 있도록 버퍼를 동적으로 분할한다. 시뮬레이션을 통한 성능분석 결과에서 제안된 기법은 기존의 기법보다 부하량을 적절히 조절하면서 평균 대기시간을 감소시키고 각 노드의 처리량과 병행 사용자 수를 증가시킴을 보인다.