Title
Pattern matching in multiple streams
Abstract
We investigate the problem of deterministic pattern matching in multiple streams. In this model, one symbol arrives at a time and is associated with one of s streaming texts. The task at each time step is to report if there is a new match between a fixed pattern of length m and a newly updated stream. As is usual in the streaming context, the goal is to use as little space as possible while still reporting matches quickly. We give almost matching upper and lower space bounds for three distinct pattern matching problems. For exact matching we show that the problem can be solved in constant time per arriving symbol and O(m+s) words of space. For the k-mismatch and k-difference problems we give O(k) time solutions that require O(m+ks) words of space. In all three cases we also give space lower bounds which show our methods are optimal up to a single logarithmic factor. Finally we set out a number of open problems related to this new model for pattern matching.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/978-3-642-31265-6_8
combinatorial pattern matching
Keywords
DocType
Volume
distinct pattern,space lower bound,multiple stream,k-difference problem,deterministic pattern,constant time,time step,fixed pattern,lower space bound,pattern matching,time solution
Conference
abs/1202.3470
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.41
22
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Raphaël Clifford126828.57
Markus Jalsenius2878.93
ely porat3100779.16
Benjamin Sach49311.40