Publication 1997 Issue No. 1 - January-February Abstract - Alternating Hashing for Expansible Files
Alternating Hashing for Expansible Files
January-February 1997 (vol. 9 no. 1)
pp. 179-185
 ASCII Text x Ye-In Chang, Chien-I Lee, "Alternating Hashing for Expansible Files," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 179-185, January-February, 1997.
 BibTex x @article{ 10.1109/69.567061,author = {Ye-In Chang and Chien-I Lee},title = {Alternating Hashing for Expansible Files},journal ={IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering},volume = {9},number = {1},issn = {1041-4347},year = {1997},pages = {179-185},doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/69.567061},publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},}
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Abstract—In this paper, we propose a generalized approach for designing a class of dynamic hashing schemes which require no index and have the growth of a file at a rate of

$${\textstyle{{n\,+\,1} \over n}}$$per full expansion, where n is the number of pages of the file, as compared to a rate of two in linear hashing. Based on this generalized approach, we derive a new dynamic hashing scheme called alternating hashing, in which, when a split occurs in page k, the data records in page k will be redistributed to page k and page (k + 1), or page k and page (k− 1), according to whether the value of level d is even or odd, respectively. (Note that a level is defined as the number of full expansions happened so far.) From our performance analysis, given a fixed load control, the proposed scheme can achieve nearly 97% storage utilization as compared to 78% storage utilization by using linear hashing.

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Index Terms:
Access methods, dynamic storage allocation, file organization, file system management, hashing.
Citation:
Ye-In Chang, Chien-I Lee, "Alternating Hashing for Expansible Files," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 179-185, Jan.-Feb. 1997, doi:10.1109/69.567061