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BLOOM FILTERS: AN INTRODUCTION Shrivatsa D Perur1 1 Assistant Professor, Dept. of ISE, GIT, Belagavi, Karnataka, India ---------------------------------------------------------------------***------------------------------------------------------------------
Abstract—many network solutions and overlay networks
utilize probabilistic techniques to reduce information processing and cost of networking. This article presents a number of frequently used and useful probabilistic techniques. Bloom filters and their variants are of prime importance, and they are heavily used in various distributed systems. This has been reflected in recent research and many new algorithms have been proposed for distributed systems that are either directly or indirectly based on Bloom filters. To keep false positive probabilities low, the size of the bloom filter must be dimensioned a priori to be linear in the maximum number of keys inserted, with the linearity constant ranging typically from one to few bytes.
Key words-Bloom filters, probabilistic structures, distributed systems
The bloom filter is a bit-vector data structure that provides a compact representation of a set of elements (keys). It supports insertion of elements and membership queries. A membership answer is probabilistically correct in the sense that it allows a small probability of a false positive (i.e., an incorrect answer for a non-member element). The bloom filter allows tradeoffs between small size (compactness) and low false positives (accuracy). To keep false positives low, the size of the bloom filter must be dimensioned a priori to be linear in the maximum number of keys inserted, with the linearity constant typically ranging from one to few bytes. Fast matching of arbitrary identifiers to values is a basic requirement for a large number of applications. Data objects are typically referenced using locally or globally unique identifiers. Recently, many distributed systems have been developed using probabilistic globally unique random bit strings as node identifiers. For example, a node tracks a large number of peers that advertise files or parts of files. Fast mapping from host identifiers to object identifiers and vice versa are needed. The number of these identifiers in memory may be great, which motivates the development of fast and compact matching algorithms. Given that there are millions or even billions of data elements, developing efficient solutions for storing, updating, and querying them becomes increasingly important. The key idea behind the data structures discussed in this survey is that by allowing the representation of the set of elements to lose some information, in other words to become lossy, the storage requirements can be significantly reduced. Bloom in 1970. Bloom first described a compact probabilistic data |
1. The amount of space needed to store the bloom filter is very less when compared to the amount of data belonging to the set being tested. 2. The time needed to check whether an element is a member of a given set is independent of the number of elements contained in the set. 3. False negatives are not possible.
I.INTRODUCTION
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structure that was used to represent words in a dictionary. There was little interest in using Bloom filters for networking until 1995, after which this area has gained widespread interest both in academia and in the industry. A bloom filter is simply used to test whether the element is present in the set or not. Its main properties are:
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4. False positives are possible, but their frequency can be controlled. In practice, it is a trade off between space/time efficiency and the false positive frequency. II. BLOOM FILTER Whenever a list or set is used, and space is at a premium, consider using a Bloom filters if the effect of false positives can be mitigated. A Bloom filters is an array of m bits for representing a set S = {x1, x2 . . . xn} of n elements. Initially all the bits in the filters are set to zero. The key idea is to use k hash functions, hi(x), 1 ≤ i ≤ k to map items x ∈ S to random numbers uniform in the range 1, . . .m. The hash functions are assumed to be uniform. The MD5 hash algorithm∈ is a popular choice for the hash functions. An element x S is inserted into the filters by setting the bits hi(x) to one for 1 ≤ i ≤ k. Conversely, y is assumed a member of S if the bits hi(y) are set, and guaranteed not to be a member if any bit hi(y) is not set. The weak point of Bloom filters is the possibility for a false positive. False positives are elements that are not part of S but are reported being in the set by the filters.
Fig 1. Overview of Bloom Filters
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