DMTCS Proceedings, 2005 International Conference on Analysis of Algorithms

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Distributional analysis of Robin Hood linear probing hashing with buckets

Alfredo Viola

Abstract


This paper presents the first distributional analysis of a linear probing hashing scheme with buckets of size b. The exact distribution of the cost of successful searches for a bα-full table is obtained, and moments and asymptotic results are derived. With the use of the Poisson transform distributional results are also obtained for tables of size m and n elements. A key element in the analysis is the use of a new family of numbers that satisfies a recurrence resembling that of the Bernoulli numbers. These numbers may prove helpful in studying recurrences involving truncated generating functions, as well as in other problems related with buckets.

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