Efficient Processing of Continual Range Queries for Location-Aware Mobile Services

Efficient processing of continual range queries is important in providing location-aware mobile services. In this paper, we study a new main memory-based approach to indexing continual range queries to support location-aware mobile services. The query index is used to quickly answer the following question continually: “Which moving objects are currently located inside the boundaries of individual queries?” We present a covering tile-based (COVET) query index. A set of virtual tiles are predefined, each with a unique ID. One or more of the virtual tiles are used to strictly cover the region defined by an individual range query. The query ID is inserted into the ID lists associated with the covering tiles. These covering tiles touch each other only at the edges. A COVET index maintains a mapping between a covering tile and all the queries that contain that tile. For any object position, search is conducted indirectly via the covering tiles. More importantly, a COVET-based query index allows query evaluation to take advantage of incremental changes in object locations. Computation can be saved for those objects that have not moved outside the boundaries of covering tiles. Simulations are conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the COVET index and compare virtual tiles of different shapes and sizes.     

Processing moving queries over moving objects using motion-adaptive indexes

This paper describes a motion-adaptive indexing scheme for efficient evaluation of moving continual queries (MCQs) over moving objects. It uses the concept of motion-sensitive bounding boxes (MSBs) to model moving objects and moving queries. These bounding boxes automatically adapt their sizes to the dynamic motion behaviors of individual objects. Instead of indexing frequently changing object positions, we index less frequently changing object and query MSBs, where updates to the bounding boxes are needed only when objects and queries move across the boundaries of their boxes. This helps decrease the number of updates to the indexes. More importantly, we use predictive query results to optimistically precalculate query results, decreasing the number of searches on the indexes. Motion-sensitive bounding boxes are used to incrementally update the predictive query results. Furthermore, we introduce the concepts of guaranteed safe radius and optimistic safe radius to extend our motion-adaptive indexing scheme to evaluating moving continual k-nearest neighbor (kNN) queries. Our experiments show that the proposed motion-adaptive indexing scheme is efficient for the evaluation of both moving continual range queries and moving continual kNN queries.     

面向移动对象连续k近邻查询的双层索引结构

移动对象连续k近邻（CKNN）查询是指给定一个连续移动的对象集合,对于任意一个k近邻查询q,实时计算查询q的k近邻并在查询有效时间内对查询结果进行实时更新.现实生活中,交通出行、社交网络、电子商务等领域许多基于位置的应用服务都涉及移动对象连续k近邻查询这一基础问题.已有研究工作解决连续k近邻查询问题时,大多需要通过多次迭代确定一个包含k近邻的查询范围,而每次迭代需要根据移动对象的位置计算当前查询范围内移动对象的数量,整个迭代过程的计算代价占查询代价的很大部分.为此,提出了一种基于网络索引和混合高斯函数移动对象分布密度的双重索引结构（grid GMM index,GGI）,并设计了移动对象连续k近邻增量查询算法（incremental search for continuous k nearest neighbors,IS-CKNN）.GGI索引结构的底层采用网格索引对海量移动对象进行维护,上层构建混合高斯模型模拟移动对象在二维空间中的分布.对于给定的k近邻查询q,IS-CKNN算法能够基于混合高斯模型直接确定一个包含q的k近邻的查询区域,减少了已有算法求解该区域的多次迭代过程;当移动对象和查询q位置发生变化时,进一步提出一种高效的增量查询策略,能够最大限度地利用已有查询结果减少当前查询的计算量.最后,在滴滴成都网约车数据集以及两个模拟数据集上进行大量实验,充分验证了算法的性能.     

分布式环境下大规模移动对象范围查询算法

移动对象的连续范围查询是许多基于位置的服务的核心问题。针对该问题,提出一种面向大规模移动对象并发范围查询的分布式搜索方法。首先,设计了一种由全局网格索引（GGI）和局部弹性四叉树构成的移动对象分布式动态索引（DDI）结构。其次,提出了一种基于DDI结构的分布式查询算法（DSA）,该算法首先引入了一种在移动对象和查询点的位置连续变化的情况下的查询结果增量更新策略;然后,在增量更新过程中引入一种面向多并发查询的共享计算优化策略,该策略能够根据已有计算结果对移动对象范围查询结果进行增量搜索。最后,基于德国路网模拟了3个具有不同空间分布的移动对象数据集,将DSA与NS(Naive Search)、GI(Grid Index)和分布式混合索引（DHI）进行对比。实验结果表明,与性能最好的对比算法DHI相比,DSA的初始查询时间减少了22.7%,增量查询时间减少了15.2%,性能优于对比算法。     

可伸缩的增量连续k近邻查询处理

针对基于TPR树(time-parameterized R-tree)索引的大量并发CKNN(continuous k-nearest neighbor)查询处理,提出了一种可伸缩的增量连续k近邻查询处理(scalable processing of incremental continuous k-nearest neighbor queries,简称SI-CNN)框架,通过引入搜索区域进行预裁剪以减少查询更新所需要的TPR树节点访问代价,并引入了增量结果表以保存候选对象,批量地更新查询结果集,具有良好的可伸缩性.基于SI-CNN框架提出了一种增量更新的SI-CNN查询处理算法,能够基于上次查询结果增量的更新查询,支持查询集合中加入或删除查询和移动对象数据集的插入、删除等动态更新操作.实验结果与分析表明,基于SI-CNN框架的SI-CNN算法可以很好地支持大量并发的CKNN查询处理,具有良好的实用价值.     

一种预测性连续时空区域查询处理方法

预测性连续时空区域查询在用户指定的时间范围期间持续地返回给定未来查询时间范围期间将出现在查询区域的移动对象。论文提出了一种预测性连续时空区域查询处理方法,设计了支持连续查询处理的两种索引结构。移动对象索引用于记录移动对象不断更新的位置信息,它用于支持查询的首次处理。连续查询索引结构用于记录所有查询结果可能受到移动对象位置变化影响的连续查询,它用于支持连续查询处理。实验表明,论文提出的方法能够有效地提高处理大量连续查询的效率。     

基于道路网的连续k近邻查询算法

针对增量式监测算法(IMA)的冗余搜索问题,提出一种基于IMA改进的移动对象连续k近邻(Continuous k Nearest Neighbor, CkNN)查询处理新算法。采用增量式查询处理机制;利用距离相近的查询其查询结果大部分相同这一特性,在以查询点为中心进行网络扩展之前,首先执行一个预处理过程,分析相近的其他查询的扩展树,并重用其中的有效部分,从而避免了对道路网的盲目扩展;且在节点的网络扩展中,通过应用具有相同扩展方向的其他查询的扩展结果,不仅减少了对道路网的重复扩展,还节省了计算代价。实验结果表明,所提算法同传统算法相比较, 缩短了查询响应时间,提高了运行效率,并且适用于不同类型的k近邻查询。     

Main Memory Evaluation of Monitoring Queries Over Moving Objects

In this paper we evaluate several in-memory algorithms for efficient and scalable processing of continuous range queries over collections of moving objects. Constant updates to the index are avoided by query indexing. No constraints are imposed on the speed or path of moving objects or fraction of objects that move at any moment in time. We present a detailed analysis of a grid approach which shows the best results for both skewed and uniform data. A sorting based optimization is developed for significantly improving the cache hit-rate. Experimental evaluation establishes that indexing queries using the grid index yields orders of magnitude better performance than other index structures such as R*-trees.     

路网中移动对象快照K近邻查询处理

扩展了一种支持路网中移动对象的位置相关查询框架的功能,利用存在磁盘上的R树来存储网络连通性和一种基于内存的网格结构来维持移动对象的位置更新,提出了基于范围查询(MNDR)的快照K近邻查询算法(SKNN),对空间中的任意一条边,分析可能受影响的最大数量和最小数量的网格单元格,说明用于快照范围查询处理的搜索空间的最大范围,预估包含查询结果的子空间,使用这个子空间作为范围调用MNDR来有效地计算路网中查询点的KNN POI,降低I/O成本,缩短查询时间。通过实验对比,当规模扩展到数十万的移动对象时,SKNN比种有效查询处理空间网络数据的预计算方法S-GRID有更好大的系统吞吐量。     

Direction-aware KNN queries for moving objects in a road network

Recently more and more people focus on k-nearest neighbor (KNN) query processing over moving objects in road networks, e.g., taxi hailing and ride sharing. However, as far as we know, the existing k-nearest neighbor (KNN) queries take distance as the major criteria for nearest neighbor objects, even without taking direction into consideration. The main issue with existing methods is that moving objects change their locations and directions frequently over time, so the information updates cannot be processed in time and they run the risk of retrieving the incorrect KNN results. They may fail to meet users’ needs in certain scenarios, especially in the case of querying k-nearest neighbors for moving objects in a road network. In order to find the top k-nearest objects moving toward a query point, this paper presents a novel algorithm for direction-aware KNN (DAKNN) queries for moving objects in a road network. In this method, R-tree and simple grid are firstly used as the underlying index structure, where the R-tree is used for indexing the static road network and the simple grid is used for indexing the moving objects. Then, it introduces the notion of “azimuth” to represent the moving direction of objects in a road network, and presents a novel local network expansion method to quickly judge the direction of the moving objects. By considering whether a moving object is moving farther away from or getting closer to a query point, the object that is definitely not in the KNN result set is effectively excluded. Thus, we can reduce the communication cost, meanwhile simplify the computation of moving direction between moving objects and query point. Comprehensive experiments are conducted and the results show that our algorithm can achieve real-time and efficient queries in retrieving objects moving toward query point in a road network.

     

道路网中的移动对象连续范围查询

研究了采用网络距离的道路网上移动对象连续多范围查询处理技术。设计了道路网、移动对象和查询数据在内存中存储的数据模型。基于该数据模型提出了两种道路网上的移动对象连续多范围查询处理算法。其中,增量式范围查询算法(incremental range query algorithm,IRQA)通过使用扩张树和影响列表结构减少查询的重新计算;组范围查询算法(group range query algorithm,GRQA)利用同一路径上多查询的结果具有相关性这一特点减少查询的重新计算。实验结果表明GRQA算法在查询分布比较集中时性能较优,IRQA算法在查询均匀分布时性能较优,此外,两种算法均优于重新计算所有查询结果的原始算法。     

Continuous monitoring of range spatial keyword query over moving objects

In this paper, we propose an efficient solution for processing continuous range spatial keyword queries over moving spatio-textual objects (namely, CRSK-mo queries). Major challenges in efficient processing of CRSK-mo queries are as follows: (i) the query range is determined based on both spatial proximity and textual similarity; thus a straightforward spatial proximity based pruning of the search space is not applicable as any object far from a query location with a high textual similarity score can still be the answer (and vice versa), (ii) frequent location updates may invalidate a query result, and thus require frequent re-computing of the result set for any object updates. To address these challenges, the key idea of our approach is to exploit the spatial and textual upper bounds between queries and objects to form safe zones (at the client-side) and buffer regions (at the server-side), and then use these bounds to quickly prune objects and queries through smart in-memory data structures. We conduct extensive experiments with a synthetic dataset that verify the effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed algorithm.     

An adaptive updating protocol for reducing moving object database workload

In the last decade, spatio-temporal database research focuses on the design of effective and efficient indexing structures in support of location-based queries such as predictive range queries and nearest neighbor queries. While a variety of indexing techniques have been proposed to accelerate the processing of updates and queries, not much attention has been paid to the updating protocol, which is another important factor affecting the system performance. In this paper, we propose a generic and adaptive updating protocol for moving object databases with less number of updates between objects and the database server, thereby reducing the overall workload of the system. In contrast to the approach adopted by most conventional moving object database systems where the exact locations and velocities last disclosed are used to predict their motions, we propose the concept of Spatio-temporal safe region to approximate possible future locations. Spatio-temporal safe regions provide larger space of tolerance for moving objects, freeing them from location and velocity updates as long as the errors remain predictable in the database. To answer predictive queries accurately, the server is allowed to probe the latest status of objects when their safe regions are inadequate in returning the exact query results. Spatio-temporal safe regions are calculated and optimized by the database server with two contradictory objectives: reducing update workload while guaranteeing query accuracy and efficiency. To achieve this, we propose a cost model that estimates the composition of active and passive updates based on historical motion records and query distribution. More system performance improvements can be obtained by cutting more updates from the clients, when the users of system are comfortable with incomplete but accuracy bounded query results. We have conducted extensive experiments to evaluate our proposal on a variety of popular indexing structures. The results confirm the viability, robustness, accuracy and efficiency of our proposed protocol.     

Voronoi-based multi-level range search in mobile navigation

Due to the universality and importance of range search queries processing in mobile and spatial databases as well as in geographic information system (GIS), numerous approaches on range search algorithms have been proposed in recent years. But ordinary range search queries focus only on a specific type of point objects. For queries which require to retrieve objects of interest locating in a particular region, ordinary range search could not get the expected results. In addition, most existing range search methods need to perform a searching on each road segments within the pre-defined range, which decreases the performance of range search. In this paper, we design a weighted network Voronoi diagram and propose a high-performance multilevel range search query processing that retrieves a set of objects locating in some specified region within the searching range. The experimental results show that our proposed algorithm runs very efficiently and outperforms its main competitor.     

An efficient approach for continuous density queries

In location-based services, a density query returns the regions with high concentrations of moving objects (MOs). The use of density queries can help users identify crowded regions so as to avoid congestion. Most of the existing methods try very hard to improve the accuracy of query results, but ignore query efficiency. However, response time is also an important concern in query processing and may have an impact on user experience. In order to address this issue, we present a new definition of continuous density queries. Our approach for processing continuous density queries is based on the new notion of a safe interval, using which the states of both dense and sparse regions are dynamically maintained. Two indexing structures are also used to index candidate regions for accelerating query processing and improving the quality of results. The efficiency and accuracy of our approach are shown through an experimental comparison with snapshot density queries.     

移动对象的动态反向k最近邻研究

反向最近邻查询是空间数据库中最重要的算法之一。传统的反向最近邻查询方法主要是针对静态对象的查询,随着无线通讯和定位技术的快速发展,移动对象发出的查询请求成为新的研究热点。该文将TPR-tree作为算法的索引结构,并提出了基于矩形框的对角线的修剪策略,将半平面修剪策略进行改进,给出了移动对象的动态反向k最近邻的查询方案。     

基于U-tree的不确定移动对象索引策略

通过在U-tree中添加时间戳和速度矢量等时空因素,提出一种基于U-tree的高效率当前及未来不确定位置信息检索的索引结构TPU-tree,可以支持多维空间中不确定移动对象的索引,并提出了一种改进的基于p-bound的MP_BBRQ(modifiedp-bound based range query)域查询处理算法,能够引入搜索区域进行预裁剪以减少查询精炼阶段所需代价偏高的积分计算.实验仿真表明,采用MP_BBRQ算法的TPU-tree概率查询性能极大地优于传统的TPR-tree索引,且更新性能与传统索引大致相当,具有良好的实用价值.     

室内概率阈值反向最近邻查询

室内空间变得越发的庞大和复杂,随之产生了越来越多的室内空间查询需求.目前已有文献提出了针对室内空间环境的范围查询和最近邻查询,而作为常见的空间查询类型的反向最近邻查询,尚未有相关的研究.为此,提出了室内概率阈值反向最近邻查询和基于定位设备的设备可达图模型.在图模型基础上,提出了室内概率阈值反向最近邻查询处理算法,该算法由基于图模型的批量剪枝、基于室内距离的剪枝、基于概率的剪枝和概率计算4部分构成,通过剪枝策略修剪掉不可能出现在结果集中的对象,从而缩小了查询空间,提高了效率.     

Fuzzy Distance-Based Range Queries over Uncertain Moving Objects

Data obtained from real world are imprecise or uncertain due to the accuracy of positioning devices,updating protocols or characteristics of applications.On the other hand,users sometimes prefer to qualitatively express their requests with vague conditions and different parts of search region are in-equally important in some applications.We address the problem of efficiently processing the fuzzy range queries for uncertain moving objects whose whereabouts in time are not known exactly,for which the basic syntax is find objects always/sometimes near to the query issuer with the qualifying guarantees no less than a given threshold during a given temporal interval.We model the location uncertainty of moving objects on the utilization of probability density functions and describe the indeterminate boundary of query range with fuzzy set.We present the qualifying guarantee evaluation of objects,and propose pruning techniques based on the α-cut of fuzzy set to shrink the search space efficiently.We also design rules to reject non-qualifying objects and validate qualifying objects in order to avoid unnecessary costly numeric integrations in the refinement step.An extensive empirical study has been conducted to demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of algorithms under various experimental     

基于Quadtree和Hash表的移动对象全时态索引

为解决大量移动对象位置频繁更新所带来的性能下降问题,提出一种基于改进的Quadtree和Hash表的QH全时态索引结构。这种新的索引结构可以支持移动对象全时态索引,在Hash表中通过存储移动对象指针来支持移动对象标识查询,并对Quadtree的叶子节点采用适时合并的方法来防范分支太深而造成的查询效率低下。实验证明,QH索引与TPR-tree相比,移动对象的更新效率更高、对象标识查询较优、范围查询性能相近。