%0 Journal Article %T Renewal theory in analysis of tries and strings %A Svante Janson %J Mathematics %D 2009 %I arXiv %X We give a survey of a number of simple applications of renewal theory to problems on random strings and tries: insertion depth, size, insertion mode and imbalance of tries; variations for b-tries and Patricia tries; Khodak and Tunstall codes. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.2174v1