A simpler and more efficient deterministic scheme for finding frequent items over sliding windows

  • Authors:
  • L. K. Lee;H. F. Ting

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong;The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the twenty-fifth ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper, we give a simple scheme for identifying ε-approximate frequent items over a sliding window of size n. Our scheme is deterministic and does not make any assumption on the distribution of the item frequencies. It supports O(1/ε) update and query time, and uses O(1/ε) space. It is very simple; its main data structures are just a few short queues whose entries store the position of some items in the sliding window. We also extend our scheme for variable-size window. This extended scheme uses O(1/ε log(εn)) space.