Center for Algorithms and Theory of Computation

CS 269S, Winter 2018: Theory Seminar
Bren Hall, Room 1423, 1pm


January 19, 2018:

Adaptive Cuckoo Filters

Timothy Johnson

We introduce the adaptive cuckoo filter (ACF), a data structure for approximate set membership that extends cuckoo filters by reacting to false positives, removing them for future queries. As an example application, in packet processing queries may correspond to flow identifiers, so a search for an element is likely to be followed by repeated searches for that element. Removing false positives can therefore significantly lower the false positive rate. The ACF, like the cuckoo filter, uses a cuckoo hash table to store fingerprints. We allow fingerprint entries to be changed in response to a false positive in a manner designed to minimize the effect on the performance of the filter. We show that the ACF is able to significantly reduce the false positive rate by presenting both a theoretical model for the false positive rate and simulations using both synthetic data sets and real packet traces.

(Based on a paper by Michael Mitzenmacher, Salvatore Pontarelli, and Pedro Reviriego from ALENEX 2018.)