• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2004년도 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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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.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.166-172
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• 2020

Video streaming application such as YouTube is one of the most popular mobile applications. To adjust the quality of video for available network bandwidth, a streaming server provides multiple representations of video of which bit rate has different bandwidth requirements. A streaming client utilizes an adaptive bit rate scheme to select a proper video representation that the network can support. The download behavior of video streaming client player is governed by several parameters such as maximum buffer size. Especially, the size of the maximum playback buffer in the client player can greatly affect the user experience. To tackle this problem, in this paper, we propose the maximum buffer size optimization according to available network bandwidth and buffer status. Our simulation study shows that our proposed buffer size optimization scheme successfully mitigates playback stalls while preserving the similar quality of streaming video compared to existing ABR schemes.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.297-304
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• 2003

A multimedia SoC often requires a large internal buffer, because it must store the whole search window to reduce the huge I/O bandwidth of motion estimation. However, the silicon area of the internal buffer increases tremendously as the search range becomes larger. This paper proposes a new method that greatly reduces the internal buffer size of a multimedia SoC while the computational cost, I/O bandwidth, and image quality do not change. In the proposed method, only the overlapped parts of search windows for consecutive macroblocks are stored in the internal buffer. The proposed method reduces the internal buffer. The proposed method reduces the internal buffer size to 1/5.0 and 1/8.8 when the search range is ${\pm}64{\times}{\pm}$64 and ${\pm}128{\times}{\pm}$128, respectively.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권10호
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• pp.5149-5167
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• 2017

Reducing energy consumption in a wireless video sensor network (WVSN) is a crucial problem because of the high video data volume and severe energy constraints of battery-powered WVSN nodes. In this paper, we present an adaptive dynamic resizing approach for a SRAM communication buffer in a WVSN node in order to reduce the energy consumption and thereby, to maximize the lifetime of the WVSN nodes. To reduce the power consumption of the communication part, which is typically the most energy-consuming component in the WVSN nodes, the radio needs to remain turned off during the data buffer-filling period as well as idle period. As the radio ON/OFF transition incurs extra energy consumption, we need to reduce the ON/OFF transition frequency, which requires a large-sized buffer. However, a large-sized SRAM buffer results in more energy consumption because SRAM power consumption is proportional to the memory size. We can dynamically adjust any active buffer memory size by utilizing a power-gating technique to reflect the optimal control on the buffer size. This paper aims at finding the optimal buffer size, based on the trade-off between the respective energy consumption ratios of the communication buffer and the radio part, respectively. We derive a formula showing the relationship between control variables, including active buffer size and total energy consumption, to mathematically determine the optimal buffer size for any given conditions to minimize total energy consumption. Simulation results show that the overall energy reduction, using our approach, is up to 40.48% (26.96% on average) compared to the conventional wireless communication scheme. In addition, the lifetime of the WVSN node has been extended by 22.17% on average, compared to the existing approaches.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.656-666
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• 2014

In delay tolerant networks (DTNs), delay is inevitable; thus, making better use of buffer space to maximize the packet delivery rate is more important than delay reduction. In DTNs, epidemic routing is a well-known routing protocol. However, epidemic routing is very sensitive to buffer size. Once the buffer size in nodes is insufficient, the performance of epidemic routing will be drastically reduced. In this paper, we propose a buffer scheme to optimize the performance of epidemic routing on the basis of the Lagrangian and dual problem models. By using the proposed optimal buffer scheme, the packet delivery rate in epidemic routing is considerably improved. Our simulation results show that epidemic routing with the proposed optimal buffer scheme outperforms the original epidemic routing in terms of packet delivery rate and average end-to-end delay. It is worth noting that the improved epidemic routing needs much less buffer size compared to that of the original epidemic routing for ensuring the same packet delivery rate. In particular, even though the buffer size is very small (e.g., 50), the packet delivery rate in epidemic routing with the proposed optimal buffer scheme is still 95.8%, which can satisfy general communication demand.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.260-264
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• 2003

네트워크의 성능 향상에 영향을 미치는 여러 요소 중에서, 본 연구에서는 NIC(Network Interface Card) 버퍼 사이즈(Buffer Size)가 웹 서버와 LAN(Local Area Netwok)에 어떤 영향을 미치는지를 분석하였다. 버퍼 사이즈의 조절을 통해서 내부 네트워크의 패킷 분실율, 처리량, RTT(Round Trip Time), 수신율의 변화를 NS-2를 사용하여 시뮬레이션 해보고 그 결과를 비교하여 이더넷(Ethernet)에서의 웹 트래픽에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.523-530
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• 2016

We use both theoretical analysis and simulations to study the impact of crosspoint-queued (CQ) buffer size on CQ switch throughput and delay performance under different traffic models, input loads, and scheduling algorithms. In this paper, we present the following. 1) We prove the stability of CQ switch using any work-conserving scheduling algorithm. 2) We present an exact closed-form formula for the CQ switch throughput and a non-closed-form but convergent formula for its delay using static non-work-conserving random scheduling algorithms with any given buffer size under independent Bernoulli traffic. 3) We show that the above results can serve as a conservative guide on deciding the required buffer size in pure CQ switches using work-conserving algorithms such as the random scheduling, under independent Bernoulli traffic. 4) Furthermore, our simulation results under real-trace traffic show that simple round-robin and random work-conserving algorithms can achieve quite good throughput and delay performance with a feasible crosspoint buffer size. Our work reveals the impact of buffer size on the CQ switch performance and provides a theoretical guide on designing the buffer size in pure CQ switch, which is an important step toward building ultra-high-speed switch fabrics.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.861-873
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• 2000

Rate-based flow control plays an important role for efficient traffic management of Available Bit Rate(ABR) services. We deal with the problem of the buffer dimension for rate-based ABR control. In this paper, we analyze the Allowed Cell Rate(ACR) of a source and the queue size in a steady state. First, we investigate the effect of the number of active sources on the behavior of the ACR and the maximum queue size. Reflecting the effect of this real scenes, we determine the optimal buffer size and buffer threshold. Furthermore, our analytic results are compared with the case when the effect of the number of active sources is disregarded.

• E2M - 전기 전자와 첨단 소재
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.204-210
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• 1995

The characteristics of the internal circuits and the load capacitance should be included to optimize the size of BiCMOS buffer. In order to get the optimum size and delay time of the BiCMOS buffer, new size plane is suggested. By using the size plane, the optimum characteristics of CMOS buffer according to the number of stages can be obtained. From this method, delaytime, .tau.$_{D}$, is obtained 2.39 nsec with $V_{\var}$=5V, $C_{L}$=5pF, W=30.mu.m and $A_{e}$=135.mu. $m^{2}$.>..>...>.

• 정보처리학회논문지C
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• 제12C권1호
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• pp.121-128
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• 2005

기존 TCP 기술은 송${\cdot}$수신측에 각각 고정된 크기의 버퍼를 할당하기 때문에 높은 대역폭(High-Bandwidth) 및 큰 전송지연(High Delay)을 가진 통신에는 적합하지 못하다. 따라서 종단간의 TCP 처리량을 개선하기 위해 통신망 상황에 따라 자동으로 TCP 버퍼를 조절하려는 시도가 있어왔다. ATBT(Automatic TCP Buffer Tuning)에서 송신측은 현재의 혼잡 제어 윈도우(CWND)의 값에 따라 송신 버퍼 크기를 조절하고 수신측은 운영체제가 정해ens 최대 크기의 TCP 버퍼 값으로 수신 버퍼 크기를 고정한다. DRS(Dynamic Right Sizing) 에서는 이전에 수신한 TCP 데이터의 두 배를 현재 송신할 TCP 데이터라고 예측함으써, TCP 수신측은 단순히 이에 따라 수신 버퍼 크기를 동적으로 변화시킨다. 그렇지만 TCP 세그먼트의 손실 가능성으로 인해 정확히 두 배로 버퍼 크기를 변화시킬 필요는 없다. 따라서 우리가 제안한 패킷 손실률에 기반한 효율적인 TCP 버퍼 조절 알고리즘(TBT-PLR:TCP Buffer Tuning Algorithm based on Packet Loss Ratio)은 TCP 송신측에는 ATBT 방법을 TCP 수신측에는 TBT-PLR 방법을 적용하였다. 실제 TCP 성능을 테스트하기 위해서 리눅스 커널 2.4.18을 수정하여 구현하였으며 기존의 고정된 크기의 TCP 버퍼를 가진 경우와 버퍼 크기가 동적으로 변하는 TBT-PLR을 적용한 경우를 비교하였다. 결과적으로, TCP 연결들간의 균형있는 메모리 사용으로 인해 성능 향상을 얻을 수 있었다.