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distributed hash table

distributed hash table noun: a decentralised distributed system that performs the functions of a hash table.

Noun

distributed hash table (plural distributed hash tables)

  1. A decentralised distributed system that performs the functions of a hash table.
    • The distributed hash table is a parallelization of the hash table obtained by dividing the table into subtables of equal size and allocating them to the processors. […] We also discuss communication overheads, and find that, in the case of mesh multicomputers, unless the network channel bandwidth...1992, Nobuyuki Ichiyoshi, Konighi Komura, Asymptotic Load Balance of Distributed Hash Tables, Institute for New Generation Computer Technology staff (editors), FGCS '92: Fifth Generation Computer...
    • We consider the conflicting problems of ensuring data-access load balancing and efficiently processing range queries on peer-to-peer data networks maintained over Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs).2006, Theoni Pitoura, Nikos Ntarmos, Peter Triantafillou, Replication, Load Balancing and Efficient Range Query Processing in DHTs, Yannis Ioannidis, Marc H. Scholl, et al. (editors), Advances in...
    Synonyms:
    DHT

Synonyms of distributed hash table

Forms of distributed hash table

pluraldistributed hash tables

Questions about distributed hash table

What does distributed hash table mean?
Distributed hash table means a decentralised distributed system that performs the functions of a hash table.
What part of speech is distributed hash table?
Distributed hash table is a noun.
What is the plural of distributed hash table?
The plural of distributed hash table is distributed hash tables.

Words near distributed hash table in the dictionary

  1. distributaries
  2. distributary
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  5. distributed computing
  6. distributed hash table
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  8. distributed ledger
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  10. distributed ray tracing
  11. distributedly

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