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Time-Aware Wear Leveling by Combining Garbage Collector and Static Wear Leveler for NAND Flash Memory System

  • Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information
  • Abbr : JKSCI
  • 2017, 22(3), pp.1-8
  • DOI : 10.9708/jksci.2017.22.03.001
  • Publisher : The Korean Society Of Computer And Information
  • Research Area : Engineering > Computer Science
  • Received : September 24, 2016
  • Accepted : December 1, 2016
  • Published : March 31, 2017

Hwang Sang-Ho 1 Jong Wook Kwak 1

1영남대학교

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ABSTRACT

In this paper, we propose a new hybrid wear leveling technique for NAND Flash memory, called Time-Aware Wear Leveling (TAWL). Our proposal prolongs the lifetime of NAND Flash memory by using dynamic wear leveling technique which considers the wear level of hot blocks as well as static wear leveling technique which considers the wear level of the whole blocks. TAWL also reduces the overhead of garbage collection by separating hot data and cold data using update frequency rate. We showed that TAWL enhanced the lifetime of NAND flash memory up to 220% compared with previous wear leveling techniques and our technique also reduced the number of copy operations of garbage collections by separating hot and cold data up to 45%.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.