Carleton University
Technical Report TR-02-08
November 2002

Frequency Estimation of Internet Packet Streams with Limited Space:Upper and Lower Bounds

Prosenjit Bose, Evangelos Kranakis, Pat Morin, Yihui Tang

Abstract

We consider the problem of approximating the frequency of frequently occuring elements in a stream of length n using only a memory of size m<<n.

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