Sorting is a memory intensive operation whose performance is greatly affected by the amount of memory available as work space. When the input size is unknown or available memory s...
The performance of external sorting using merge sort is highly dependent on the length of the runs generated. One of the most commonly used run generation strategies is Replacemen...
Xavier Martinez-Palau, David Dominguez-Sal, Josep-...
Evaluating a query can involve manipulation of large volumes of temporary data. When the volume of data becomes too great, activities such as joins and sorting must use disk, and ...
In long-term deployments of Wireless Sensor Networks, it is often more efficient to store sensor readings locally at each device and transmit those readings to the user only when ...
We consider a scenario where we want to query a large dataset that is stored in external memory and does not fit into main memory. The most constrained resources in such a situati...