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Toward a Formal Derivation of the Expected Behavior of Prefix B-Trees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2009

Hosam M. Mahmoud  and
Ratko Orlandić
Hosam M. Mahmoud
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 20052
Ratko Orlandić
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 20052
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Abstract

Via order statistics we analyze the average length of all separators in random Prefix B-trees. From this result we draw some conclusions and conjectures concerning the average overall storage of random Prefix B-trees.

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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , April 1995 , pp. 183 - 192
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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