External Batched Range Minimum Queries and LCP Construction

This work deals with I/O-optimal suffix array (SA) and longest common prefix (LCP) array construction in external memory. For this purpose, the I/O-optimale DC3 algorithm is enhanced by LCP construction and adapted accordingly to the external memory model. In this context we present a method to construct the required range minimum queries (RMQs) efficiently in external memory. The core of this work is a description and implementation of the resulting external DC3-LCP algorithm using the Stxxl - the C++ Standard Template Library for Extra Large Data Sets. Experimental results based on realistic, real-world instances rounds off this work.