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Contributions to the Generalized Coupon Collector and LRU Problems

Discrete Mathematics 2017-06-19 v1

Abstract

Based upon inequalities on Subset Probabilities, proofs of several conjectures on the Generalized Coupon Collector Problem (i.e. CCP with unequal popularity) are presented. Then we derive a very simple asymptotic relation between the expectation of the waiting time for a partial collection in the CCP, and the Miss rate of a LRU cache.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1706.05250,
  title  = {Contributions to the Generalized Coupon Collector and LRU Problems},
  author = {Christian Berthet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.05250},
  year   = {2017}
}
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