Optimising the space utilisation in real-time flash translation layer mapping scheme

Solid-State Disk (SSD) is a semiconductor storage device and it has become a preferred choice for many storage sub-systems solutions to replace the classical hard drives due to its high performance and durability. Moreover, NAND flash memory has become cheaper in costs. However, this flash memory ty...

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Main Authors: Ab. Karim, Mohd Bazli, Rahiman, Amir Rizaan, Latip, Rohaya, Ibrahim, Hamidah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Science Publishing Corporation 2018
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/75153/1/Optimising%20the%20space%20utilisation%20in%20real-time%20flash%20translation%20layer%20mapping%20scheme.pdf
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author Ab. Karim, Mohd Bazli
Rahiman, Amir Rizaan
Latip, Rohaya
Ibrahim, Hamidah
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Rahiman, Amir Rizaan
Latip, Rohaya
Ibrahim, Hamidah
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description Solid-State Disk (SSD) is a semiconductor storage device and it has become a preferred choice for many storage sub-systems solutions to replace the classical hard drives due to its high performance and durability. Moreover, NAND flash memory has become cheaper in costs. However, this flash memory type has its own limitations due to its erase-before-write operations nature. This limitation will cause the memory to wear faster and consuming higher cost when initiating the cleaning process. To overcome the limitation, an address mapping in NAND flash memory namely Flash Translation Layer (FTL) plays important role in handling I/O operations. Several studies on the FTL have been carried out to manage the IO operations in NAND flash device efficiently. This paper proposed an optimized address-mapping scheme called Optimized Real-Time Flash Translation Layer (ORFTL). In order to increase the NAND flash space utilization, the proposed scheme reduces idle buffer blocks and reassigns the blocks as new Logical Block Addressing (LBA) in order to optimize blocks in flash memory for more space utilization. In addition, the scheme introduces a pool of buffer blocks with the same bandwidth throughput size of IO interface that connects the SSD to the host system in order to guarantee available free spaces to serve write operations. By optimizing both types of blocks, the proposed scheme has shown significant increases in the NAND flash memory space utilization as compared to the existing FTL schemes.
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spelling upm.eprints-751532020-04-20T15:45:51Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/75153/ Optimising the space utilisation in real-time flash translation layer mapping scheme Ab. Karim, Mohd Bazli Rahiman, Amir Rizaan Latip, Rohaya Ibrahim, Hamidah Solid-State Disk (SSD) is a semiconductor storage device and it has become a preferred choice for many storage sub-systems solutions to replace the classical hard drives due to its high performance and durability. Moreover, NAND flash memory has become cheaper in costs. However, this flash memory type has its own limitations due to its erase-before-write operations nature. This limitation will cause the memory to wear faster and consuming higher cost when initiating the cleaning process. To overcome the limitation, an address mapping in NAND flash memory namely Flash Translation Layer (FTL) plays important role in handling I/O operations. Several studies on the FTL have been carried out to manage the IO operations in NAND flash device efficiently. This paper proposed an optimized address-mapping scheme called Optimized Real-Time Flash Translation Layer (ORFTL). In order to increase the NAND flash space utilization, the proposed scheme reduces idle buffer blocks and reassigns the blocks as new Logical Block Addressing (LBA) in order to optimize blocks in flash memory for more space utilization. In addition, the scheme introduces a pool of buffer blocks with the same bandwidth throughput size of IO interface that connects the SSD to the host system in order to guarantee available free spaces to serve write operations. By optimizing both types of blocks, the proposed scheme has shown significant increases in the NAND flash memory space utilization as compared to the existing FTL schemes. Science Publishing Corporation 2018 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/75153/1/Optimising%20the%20space%20utilisation%20in%20real-time%20flash%20translation%20layer%20mapping%20scheme.pdf Ab. Karim, Mohd Bazli and Rahiman, Amir Rizaan and Latip, Rohaya and Ibrahim, Hamidah (2018) Optimising the space utilisation in real-time flash translation layer mapping scheme. International Journal of Engineering and Technology(UAE), 7 (4.31). 381 - 385. ISSN 2227-524X 10.14419/ijet.v7i4.31.23716
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title Optimising the space utilisation in real-time flash translation layer mapping scheme
title_full Optimising the space utilisation in real-time flash translation layer mapping scheme
title_fullStr Optimising the space utilisation in real-time flash translation layer mapping scheme
title_full_unstemmed Optimising the space utilisation in real-time flash translation layer mapping scheme
title_short Optimising the space utilisation in real-time flash translation layer mapping scheme
title_sort optimising the space utilisation in real time flash translation layer mapping scheme
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/75153/1/Optimising%20the%20space%20utilisation%20in%20real-time%20flash%20translation%20layer%20mapping%20scheme.pdf
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