Simpler algorithm for estimating frequency moments of data streams

  • Authors:
  • Lakshminath Bhuvanagiri;Sumit Ganguly;Deepanjan Kesh;Chandan Saha

  • Affiliations:
  • Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur;Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur;Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur;Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

  • Venue:
  • SODA '06 Proceedings of the seventeenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithm
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The problem of estimating the kth frequency moment Fk over a data stream by looking at the items exactly once as they arrive was posed in [1, 2]. A succession of algorithms have been proposed for this problem [1, 2, 6, 8, 7]. Recently, Indyk and Woodruff [11] have presented the first algorithm for estimating Fk, for k 2, using space Õ(n1-2/k), matching the space lower bound (up to poly-logarithmic factors) for this problem [1, 2, 3, 4, 13] (n is the number of distinct items occurring in the stream.) In this paper, we present a simpler 1-pass algorithm for estimating Fk.