Sliding Window Method
This method is an efficient variant of the 2k-ary method. For example, to calculate the exponent 398 which has binary expansion (110 001 110)2, we take a window of length 3 using the 2k-ary method algorithm we calculate 1,x3,x6,x12,x24,x48,x49,x98,x99,x198,x199,x398. But, we can also compute 1,x3,x6,x12,x24,x48,x96,x192,x199, x398 which saves one multiplication and amounts to evaluating (110 001 110)n2
Here is the general algorithm:
Algorithm:
- Input
- An element 'x' of 'G',a non negative integer n=(nl,nl-1,...,n0)2, a parameter k>0 and the pre-computed values x3,x5,....
- Output
- The element xn in G
Algorithm:
1. y := 1 and i := l-1 2. while i > -1 do 3. if ni=0 then y:=y2 and i:=i-1 4. else 5. s:=max{i-k+1,0} 6. while ns=0 do s:=s+1 7. for h:=1 to i-s+1 do y:=y2 8. u:=(ni,ni-1,....,ns)2 9. y:=y*xu 10. i:=s-1 11. return yNote:
- In line 6 the loop finds the longest string of length less than or equal to 'k' which ends in a non zero value. Also not all odd powers of 2 up to need be computed and only those specifically involved in the computation need be considered.
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