Renewal theory in the analysis of tries and strings

  • Authors:
  • Svante Janson

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We give a survey of a number of simple applications of renewal theory to problems on random strings and tries: insertion depth, size, insertion mode and imbalance of tries; variations for b-tries and Patricia tries; Khodak and Tunstall codes.