Space efficient wavelet tree construction

  • Authors:
  • Francisco Claude;Patrick K. Nicholson;Diego Seco

  • Affiliations:
  • David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada;David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada;University of A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain

  • Venue:
  • SPIRE'11 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on String processing and information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Wavelet trees are one of the main building blocks in many space efficient data structures. In this paper, we present new algorithms for constructing wavelet trees, based on in-place sorting, that use virtually no extra space. Furthermore, we implement and confirm that these algorithms are practical by comparing them to a known construction algorithm. This represents a step forward for practical space-efficient data structures, by allowing their construction on more massive data sets.