THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE FACULTY OF MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE Foundations

Bloom filters and Counting Bloom Filters (CBFs) are widely used in networking device algorithms. They implement fast set representations to support membership queries with limited error. Unlike Bloom filters, CBFs also support element deletions. In the first part of the talk, I will introduce a new general method based on variable increments to improve the efficiency of CBFs and their variants. I will demonstrate that this method can always achieve a lower false positive rate and a lower overflow probability bound than CBFs in practical systems.