Threaded Binary Tree

Presented to:
Md. Shamsujjoha
 Senior Lecturer of CSE department
 East West University
Presented by:
 Md. Khabbab Hossain Tusher
 Date:03/04/2016

A binary search tree in which each node uses an otherwise-empty left
child link to refer to the node's in-order predecessor and an empty
right child link to refer to its in-Order Successor.
Definition
Slide 1

A Simple Binary Tree
A
B
D
E
C
GF
Slide 2

A
B C
Null D Null Null E Null Null G NullNull F Null
Slide 3
Threaded binary tree

Threaded Binary Tree
 In above binary tree, there are 8 null pointers & actual 6
pointers.
 In all there are 14 pointers.
 We can generalize it that for any binary tree with n nodes
there will be (n+1) null pointers and 2n total pointers.
 The objective here to make effective use of these null
pointers.
 A. J. perils & C. Thornton jointly proposed idea to make
effective use of these null pointers.
 According to this idea we are going to replace all the null
pointers by the appropriate pointer values called threads.
Slide 4

 And binary tree with such pointers are called threaded tree.
 In the memory representation of a threaded binary tree, it is necessary
to distinguish between a normal pointer and a thread.
Slide 5

Threaded Binary Tree:
One-Way
 We will use the right thread only in this case.
 To implement threads we need to use in-order successor of the tree
Slide 6

Threaded Binary Tree:
One-Way
A
B C
Null D Null E Null G NullNull F
Inorder Traversal of The tree: D, B, E, A, F, C, G
Slide 7

Two way Threaded Tree/Double Threads
 Again two-way threading has left pointer of the first node and right
pointer of the last node will contain the null value. The header nodes
is called two-way threading with header node threaded binary tree.
Slide 8

A
B
D
E
C
F G
Dangling
Dangling
Slide 9

• Dangling can be solved as follows
 Introduce a header node.
 The left and right pointer of the header node are treated as normal
links and are initialized to point to header node itself.
Slide 10

A
B
D
E
C
F G
Head
Slide 11

Structure of Thread BT
Node structure
For the purpose of our evaluation algorithm, we assume each
node has five fields:
LTag Left data Right RTag
We define this node structure in C as:
Struct Node{
int data;
struct Node *Left,*Right;
bool Ltag;
boolRtag;
};
Slide 12

L.Tag L.Child head R.child
R.Tag
1 A 1
1 1
0 D 0 0 E 0 0 F 0 0 G 0
1 B 1 1 C 1
Inorder Traversal of The tree: D B E A F C G
Slide 13

Threaded Tree Traversal
• We start at the leftmost node in the tree, print it, and follow
its right thread
• If we follow a thread to the right, we output the node and
continue to its right.
• If we follow a link to the right, we go to the leftmost node,
print it, and continue.
Slide 14

8
75
3
1
6
Start at leftmost node, print it
Output
1
9
Slide 15

8
75
3
1
6
Follow thread to right, print node
Output
1
3
9
Slide 16

8
75
3
1
6
Follow link to right, go to leftmost
node and print
Output
1
3
5
9
Slide 17

8
75
3
1
6
Output
1
3
5
6
9
Slide 18

8
75
3
1
6
Follow link to right, go to
leftmost node and print
Output
1
3
5
6
7
9
Slide 19

8
75
3
1
6
9
Output
1
3
5
6
7
8
Slide 20

8
75
3
91
6
Follow link to right, go to
leftmost node and print
Output
1
3
5
6
7
8
9
Slide 21

void inOrder(struct Node *root)
{
struct Node *cur = leftmost(root);
while (cur != NULL)
 {
 printf("%d ", cur->data);

 // If this node is a thread node,
then go to
// inorder successor
 if (cur->rightThread)
 cur = cur->right;
 else // Else go to the leftmost child
in right subtree
 cur = leftmost(cur->right);
 }
 }
8
75
3
1
6
9
Slide 22

Threaded Binary Trees
 In threaded binary trees, The
null pointers are used as thread.
 We can use the null pointers
which is a efficient way to use
computers memory.
 Traversal is easy. Completed
without using stack or
reccursive function.
 Structure is complex.
 Insertion and deletion takes
more time.
Normal Binary Trees
 In a normal binary trees, the null
pointers remains null.
 We can’t use null pointers so it is a
wastage of memory.
 Traverse is not easy and not
memory efficient.
 Less complex than Threaded binary
tree.
 Less Time consuming than
Threaded Binary tree.
Comparison of Threaded BT
Slide 23

 Inserting a node to Threaded Binary Tree:
Inserting a node X as the right child of a nodes.
1st Case:
- If G has an empty right subtree, then the insertion is simple
Slide 24

A
B
D
Inserting X as a right child of G
E
C
F G
Head
X
New inorder traversal is: D,B,E,A,F,C,G,X
Slide 25

2nd Case:
If the right subtree of C is not empty, then this right child is made
the right child of X after insertion.
Slide 26

A
B
D
New Inorder Traversal of The tree: D, B, E, A, F, C, X,G
E
F
G
Head
x
C
Slide 27

Advantage
 1. By doing threading we avoid
the recursive method of
traversing a Tree , which doesn’t
use of stack and consumes a lot
of memory and time .
 2 . The node can keep record of
its root .
 3. Backward Traverse is
possible.
 4. Applicable in most types of
the binary tree.
Disadvantage
 1. This makes the Tree more
complex .
 2. More prone to errors when
both the child are not present &
both values of nodes pointer to
their ancestors.
 3. Lot of time consumes when
deletion or insertion is
performed.
Threaded binary tree
Slide 28

 Same as any kind of Binary Tree.
 Used in search and Traverse
based work
APPLICATIONS
Slide 29

Conclusion
 Excellent concept in modern computer science.
 Saves Time and memory.
 Traversal and search are very efficient.
 Insertion and deletion are not so efficient.
Slide 30

References
 http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/inorder-tree-traversal-without-
recursion-and-without-stack/
 http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/avl/libavl_183.html
 http://www.math-
cs.gordon.edu/courses/cs321/lectures/threaded.html
 https://prezi.com/1yitau0wnwlg/threaded-binary-tree-in-data-
structures/
 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6744770/confusion-with-
threaded-binary-tree
 Various Text Book for data structure.

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