RbWL: Recency-Based Static Wear Leveling for Lifetime Extension and Overhead Reduction in NAND Flash Memory Systems

In this letter, we propose a static wear leveling technique, called Recency-based Wear Leveling (RbWL). The basic idea of RbWL is to execute static wear leveling at minimum levels, because the frequent migrations of cold data by static wear leveling cause significant overhead in a NAND flash memory...

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Published inIEICE Transactions on Information and Systems Vol. E101.D; no. 10; pp. 2518 - 2522
Main Authors HWANG, Sang-Ho, KWAK, Jong Wook
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Tokyo The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers 01.10.2018
Japan Science and Technology Agency
Subjects
Algorithms
cold/hot data classification
Computer memory
elapsed time
Flash memory (computers)
Leveling
NAND flash memory
static wear leveling
Wear
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Summary:In this letter, we propose a static wear leveling technique, called Recency-based Wear Leveling (RbWL). The basic idea of RbWL is to execute static wear leveling at minimum levels, because the frequent migrations of cold data by static wear leveling cause significant overhead in a NAND flash memory system. RbWL adjusts the execution frequency according to a threshold value that reflects the lifetime difference of the hot/cold blocks and the total lifetime of the NAND flash memory system. The evaluation results show that RbWL improves the lifetime of NAND flash memory systems by 52%, and it also reduces the overhead of wear leveling from 8% to 42% and from 13% to 51%, in terms of the number of erase operations and the number of page migrations of valid pages, respectively, compared with other algorithms.
ISSN:0916-8532
1745-1361
DOI:10.1587/transinf.2018EDL8076