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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2018.37
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-85108
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Giakkoupis, George ; Woelfel, Philipp

An Improved Bound for Random Binary Search Trees with Concurrent Insertions

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Abstract

Recently, Aspnes and Ruppert (DISC 2016) defined the following simple random experiment to determine the impact of concurrency on the performance of binary search trees: n randomly permuted keys arrive one at a time. When a new key arrives, it is first placed into a buffer of size c. Whenever the buffer is full, or when all keys have arrived, an adversary chooses one key from the buffer and inserts it into the binary search tree.

The ability of the adversary to choose the next key to insert among c buffered keys, models a distributed system, where up to c processes try to insert keys concurrently. Aspnes and Ruppert showed that the expected average depth of nodes in the resulting tree is O(log(n) + c) for a comparison-based adversary, which can only take the relative order of arrived keys into account. We generalize and strengthen this result. In particular, we allow an adversary that knows the actual values of all keys that have arrived, and show that the resulting expected average node depth is D_{avg}(n) + O(c), where D_{avg}(n) = 2ln(n) - Theta(1) is the expected average node depth of a random tree obtained in the standard unbuffered version of this experiment. Extending the bound by Aspnes and Ruppert to this stronger adversary model answers one of their open questions.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{giakkoupis_et_al:LIPIcs:2018:8510,
  author =	{George Giakkoupis and Philipp Woelfel},
  title =	{{An Improved Bound for Random Binary Search Trees with Concurrent Insertions}},
  booktitle =	{35th Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2018)},
  pages =	{37:1--37:13},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-062-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{96},
  editor =	{Rolf Niedermeier and Brigitte Vall{\'e}e},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2018/8510},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-85108},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2018.37},
  annote =	{Keywords: random binary search tree, buffer, average depth, concurrent data structures}
}

Keywords: random binary search tree, buffer, average depth, concurrent data structures
Collection: 35th Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2018)
Issue Date: 2018
Date of publication: 27.02.2018

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