• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.9-17
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a dynamic load distribution technique at the operating system level in mobile storage systems with a heterogeneous storage pair of a small form-factor and disk and a flash memory, which aims at saving energy consumption as well as enhancing I/O performance. Our proposed technique takes a combinatory approach of file placement and buffer cache management techniques to find how the load can be distributed in an energy and performance-aware way for a heterogeneous mobile storage air of a hard disk and a flash memory. We demonstrate that the proposed technique provides better experimental results with heterogeneous mobile storage devices compared with the existing techniques through extensive simulations.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.421-423
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• 2003

최근 클러스터 웹 서버의 로드 벨런싱으로서 L4 스위치가 널리 사용되고 있다. 전형적인 L4 스위치는 연결 요구 발생시 back-end 노드들의 부하를 평가하여 적은 부하를 갖고 있는 노드로 요청을 보내는 기능을 수행한다. 그러나 L4 스위치의 부하 분산은 사용자 연결 횟수를 이용해 분산함으로서 사용자의 다양한 컨텐츠 요청에 적절한 부하분산 스케줄링을 적용하고 있지 않다. 본 논문에서는 서버에 전송되는 컨텐츠 요구를 L4 스위치 계층에서 인식하여 부하배분에 사용하는 부하분산 모델을 제시한다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.17C no.4
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• pp.379-384
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• 2010

Mobile nodes in high mobility ad hoc networks might come together in specific areas. In non-uniformly distributed networks, traffic load can be concentrated to intermediate nodes between dense clusters, and networks performance can be degraded. In this paper, we proposed a cluster based routing protocol that heavy traffic nodes adaptively react according to traffic load. The simulation result shows that the proposed protocol reduce packet loss and end-to-end delay.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.119-127
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• 2005

Web services and their composition (web processes) are promising technologies to efficiently integrate disparate software components over various types of systems. As many web services are nowadays available on Internet, quality of services (QoS) and performance/cost become increasingly important to differentiating between similar service providers. In this work, we introduce sPAC (Web Services Performance Analysis Centre) and show how customers can benefit from sPAC to consider performance in composing and commercializing web services. sPAC 1) helps users to graphically describe the workflow of web services, 2) invokes web services to test out performance for light load conditions, 3) automatically converts the web services and the flow between them into a simulation model, 4) conducts extensive simulations for heavy load conditions and various usage patterns, and 5) reports analysis results and estimation data for the web services.

• Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.25-39
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• 1999

Among older persons falls are the leading cause of death resulting from injury. The research was conducted to investigate the effects of transitional floor surfaces and visual field obstruction on gait mechanisms in the elderly. Ten college students and ten elderly individuals participated in the experiment. The results indicated that walking on transitional floor surfaces and carrying a light load changed the elderly individuals biomechanical parameters of gait mechanisms more significantly than their younger counterparts in terms of slip severity. The result implies that the types of floor material placed in the homes of elderly individuals and in public places should minimize transitional floor surfaces and the elderly individuals should be made aware of the danger of slipping even when carrying a light load.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.50-55
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• 2005

웹 서비스와 웹 프로세스(Web Processes)는 다양한 시스템 상에서 이종의 소프트웨어 컴포넌트들을 효과적으로 통합할 수 있는 기술이다. 웹 서비스의 활용이 증대함에 따라 성능(performance), 비용(cost) 등 005(Quality of Service)는 서비스 제공자들 간의 차별화를 위한 요건으로 그 중요성이 증가하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 웹 서비스 성능 분석 도구인 sPAC(Web Service Performance Analysis Center)을 소개하여, 웹 서비스 조합시 성능의 만족 여부를 미리 고려할 수 있음을 보인다. sPAC은 1) 그래픽 기반 웹 프로세스 구성 환경을 제공, 2) 경부하(light load) 조건에서의 성능 테스트를 위해 웹 서비스를 호출, 3) 웹 프로세스에 대한 시뮬레이션 모델을 자동 생성 하여, 과부하(heavy load) 조건에서 시뮬레이션 기반의 성능 분석 수행, 4) 웹 서비스의 성능 분석 결과와 평가 데이터의 보고서 생성을 제공한다.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.22 no.9
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• pp.467-472
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• 2016

In this study, we propose an Energy-Aware Web service to optimize energy efficiency using the characteristics of the system load. Currently, the service scale of data center is growing and the range of its applications is enlarged, causing interest in energy conservation. In particular, the web service has the largest proportion among various services of the data center. We propose a new energy saving method for web services guaranteeing the performance requirements of the services. The proposed method is optimized through the differences of energy-consumption rate over the system load. Performance evaluation has been performed under conditions similar to the actual service. The results indicated that the maximum energy reduction by the proposed method is up to 30% better than the existing methods.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.1-13
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• 2014

In IEEE 802.11p/1609-based vehicular networks, vehicles are allowed to exchange safety and control messages only within time periods, called control channel (CCH) interval, which are scheduled periodically. Currently, the length of the CCH interval is set to the fixed value (i.e. 50ms). However, the fixed-length intervals cannot be effective for dynamically changing traffic load. Hence, some protocols have been recently proposed to support variable-length CCH intervals in order to improve channel utilization. In existing protocols, the CCH interval is subdivided into safety and non-safety intervals, and the length of each interval is dynamically adjusted to accommodate the estimated traffic load. However, they do not consider the presence of hidden nodes. Consequently, messages transmitted in each interval are likely to overlap with simultaneous transmissions (i.e. interference) from hidden nodes. Particularly, life-critical safety messages which are exchanged within the safety interval can be unreliably delivered due to such interference, which deteriorates QoS of safety applications such as cooperative collision warning. In this paper, we therefore propose a new interference-aware Dynamic Safety Interval (DSI) protocol. DSI calculates the number of vehicles sharing the channel with the consideration of hidden nodes. The safety interval is derived based on the measured number of vehicles. From simulation study using the ns-2, we verified that DSI outperforms the existing protocols in terms of various metrics such as broadcast delivery ration, collision probability and safety message delay.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.10 no.10
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• pp.4883-4901
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• 2016

Energy efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is very appealing research area due to serious constrains on resources like storage, processing, and communication power of the sensor nodes. Due to limited capabilities of sensing nodes, such networks are composed of a large number of nodes. The higher number of nodes increases the overall performance in data collection from environment and transmission of packets among nodes. In such networks the nodes sense data and ultimately forward the information to a Base Station (BS). The main issues in WSNs revolve around energy consumption and delay in relaying of data. A lot of research work has been published in this area of achieving energy efficiency in the network. Various techniques have been proposed to divide such networks; like grid division of network, group based division, clustering, making logical layers of network, variable size clusters or groups and so on. In this paper a new technique of group based WSNs is proposed by using some features from recent published protocols i.e. "Energy-Efficient Multi-level and Distance Aware Clustering (EEMDC)" and "Energy-Efficient Multi-level and Distance Aware Clustering (EEUC)". The proposed work is not only energy-efficient but also minimizes the delay in relaying of data from the sensor nodes to BS. Simulation results show, that it outperforms LEACH protocol by 38%, EEMDC by 10% and EEUC by 13%.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.10 no.10
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• pp.4642-4660
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• 2016

One major concern of applying Multipath TCP (MPTCP) to data delivery in heterogeneous wireless networks is that the utilization of asymmetric paths with diverse networking-related parameters may cause severe packet reordering and receive buffer blocking (RB²LOC). Although many efforts are devoting to addressing MPTCP's packet reordering problems, their sender-controlled solutions do not consider balancing overhead between an MPTCP sender and receiver, and their fully MPTCP mode cannot make MPTCP achieve a desired performance. This paper proposes a novel receiver-centric buffer blocking-aware data scheduling strategy for MPTCP (dubbed MPTCP-rec) necessitating the following aims: (1) alleviating MPTCP's packet reordering and RB²LOC problems, (2) improving the MPTCP performance, and (3) balancing load between the MPTCP sender and receiver. Simulation results show that the proposed MPTCP-rec solution outperforms the existing MPTCP solutions in terms of data delivery performance in heterogeneous wireless networks.