A new analysis of the false positive rate of a Bloom filter

Information Processing Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 944-949

  Christensen, Ken ^a   Roginsky, Allen ^b   Jimeno, Miguel ^a,c  

^a University of South Florida   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DEL NORTE   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Analysis of algorithms; Bloom filters; Data structures

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS; BLOOM FILTERS; EFFICIENT DATA STRUCTURES; FALSE POSITIVE; FALSE POSITIVE RATES; RELATIVE ERRORS; SET MEMBERSHIP;

DATA STRUCTURES;

BLOOMS (METAL);

EID: 77955214744     PISSN: 00200190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipl.2010.07.024     Document Type: Article

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