Continuous Monitoring of Spatial Queries in Wireless Broadcast Environments

Wireless data broadcast is a promising technique for information dissemination that leverages the computational capabilities of the mobile devices in order to enhance the scalability of the system. Under this environment, the data are continuously broadcast by the server, interleaved with some indexing information for query processing. Clients may then tune in the broadcast channel and process their queries locally without contacting the server. Previous work on spatial query processing for wireless broadcast systems has only considered snapshot queries over static data. In this paper, we propose an air indexing framework that 1) outperforms the existing (i.e., snapshot) techniques in terms of energy consumption while achieving low access latency and 2) constitutes the first method supporting efficient processing of continuous spatial queries over moving objects.     

移动P2P网络中能量有效连续查询研究

在移动P2P网络中一个基本应用问题是访问分布式空间数据库中的数据对象,同时节省电量.文中提出了在移动P2P网络中能量有效连续查询处理（Energy Efficient Continuous Query Processing,EECQP）算法,包括范围查询和k个最近邻居节点查询（k-nearest-neighbor queries, k-NN）.EECQP算法能够提供移动用户找到一个有质量保证的连续查询结果.EECQP算法主要的想法是允许用户与节点合作,持续保存查询结果,而不是总是从头开始处理查询,从而减少通信开销.实验结果表明所提出的EECQP算法对于范围查询和k个最近邻居节点查询在通信开销和QoS保证是能量有效和可扩展的.     

Dynamic network layer for data query in sensor network

Query processing systems in wireless sensor networks usually support tasks such as data acquisition, data aggregation, and event‐based query. The performances of query processing with these tasks are greatly varied according to different routing protocols. Most existing data query systems usually use one routing protocol to deal with all kinds of queries. This work demonstrates that proper selection of routing protocols can improve the performance of query processing. We propose a dynamic routing layer that makes protocol selection on the basis of query tasks and can automatically switch between different routing protocols. Simulation results show that dynamic routing scheme is more energy efficient than single routing protocol. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Location-dependent queries in mobile contexts: distributed processing using mobile agents

With the current advances of mobile computing technology, we are witnessing an explosion in the development of applications that provide mobile users with a wide range of services. In this paper, we present a system that supports distributed processing of continuous location-dependent queries in mobile environments. The system that we propose presents the following main advantages: 1) it is a general solution for the processing of location-dependent queries in scenarios where not only the users issuing queries, but also other interesting objects can move; 2) it performs an efficient processing of these queries in a continuous way; 3) it is especially well adapted to environments where location data are distributed in a network and processing tasks can be performed in parallel, allowing a high scalability; and 4) it optimizes wireless communications. We use mobile agents to carry the processing tasks wherever they are needed. Thus, agents are in charge of tracking the location of interesting moving objects and refreshing the answer to a query efficiently. We evaluate the usefulness of the presented proposal showing that the system achieves a good precision and scales up well.     

多数据库集成环境下查询优化研究

在多数据库集成系统中，用户查询由中介系统转换为对各局部数据库的内部操作及局部数据库之间的数据传递。搜索一条访问相互连接数据源的路径以获得综合开销最小的查询策略，是多数据库集成环境向查询优化提出的新的挑战。文章设计了一个新的中介系统，将查询优化问题分为两个阶段，并在此基础上通过化简策略空间、有效的代价估算和策略搜索算法，以提高多数据库环境下查询优化器的工作效率。     

超对等网络中的轮廓查询优化

轮廓查询是近年来信息服务领域的一个研究重点和热点.现有的三阶段算法TPAOSS (Three-Phase Algorithm for Optimizing Skyline Scalar)至少存在如下两个缺陷:(1)在TPAOSS算法的第3阶段中,当网络节点上的对象个数较多时,Bloom filter的长度将呈指数级增长,从而严重影响获取子空间重复值的效率以及占用内存空间的大小;(2)TPAOSS算法只考虑预处理阶段的时间代价,而没有考虑各网络节点进行局部或全局子空间轮廓查询计算的效率.为此,提出一种适合超对等网络(Super-Peer Architecture,SPA)的子空间轮廓查询方法EPSSQDN (Efficient Processing of Subspace Skyline Queries in Distributed Networks).EPSSQDN算法有效解决了TPAOSS算法的的两个主要性能问题,并且显著提高了SPA网络中的子空间轮廓查询处理的效率.此外,为了能够进一步降低子空间上轮廓查询的时间开销以及网络节点间的数据传输量,我们给出新颖且有效的优化策略.实验结果表明,EPSSQDN算法比TPAOSS算法更能够缩短SPA网络中子空间轮廓查询的时间开销.     

Spatial query processing in road networks for wireless data broadcast

Recently, wireless broadcast environments have attracted significant attention due to its high scalability to broadcast information to a large number of mobile subscribers. It is especially a promising and desirable dissemination method for the heavily loaded environment where a great number of the same type of requests are sent from the users. There have been many studies on processing spatial queries via broadcast model recently. However, not much attention is paid to the spatial queries in road networks on wireless broadcast environments. In this paper, we focus on three common types of spatial queries, namely, k nearest neighbor (kNN) queries, range queries and reverse nearest neighbor (RNN) queries in spatial networks for wireless data broadcast. Specially, we propose a novel index for spatial queries in wireless broadcast environments (ISW). With the reasonable organization and the effectively pre-computed bounds, ISW provides a powerful framework for spatial queries. Furthermore, efficient algorithms are designed to cope with kNN, range and RNN queries separately based on ISW. The search space can be obviously reduced and subsequently the client can download as less as possible data for query processing, which can conserve the energy while not significantly influence the efficiency. The detailed theory analysis of cost model and the experimental results are presented for verifying the efficiency and effectiveness of ISW and our methods.     

使用区间路径处理XML查询

近年来,在XML查询处理方法中发表了一些基于节点流栈连接的高效的分枝连接算法。然而,这些算法普遍存在这样的问题:由于它们必须扫描查询中出现的每一个元素对应的节点流,当XML节点数量很大时,查询处理的输入代价很大,效率变得低下。为了解决这个问题,提出了一个新型的标记法记为区间路径,不同于节点流的区间标记法,区间路径可以把具有相同路径的节点集索引到一个集合中。继而提出了分枝点连接算法用于XML查询处理。同基于节点流栈的分枝连接算法相比,该算法有以下优势:节点集的祖先信息直接位于区间路径中;只有和查询结果相关的节点集会被扫描到,大大降低了输入代价;支持查询通配符;对于类型为根路径的查询,只需一次输入操作代价完成查询处理。实验结果表面该算法在输入代价,执行时间和延展性方面都优于基于节点流的分枝连接算法。     

能量高效的无线传感器网络时空查询处理算法

 在无线传感器网络环境中,用户经常提交的查询是时空查询,如“获得区域A在某个给定时间段内的感知数据”.由于传感器节点能量十分有限,因此,能量高效的时空查询处理是目前亟需解决的问题.首先指出了现有的时空查询处理算法能量消耗大的原因在于查询协调节点选择不合理.然后给出了理论上最优的查询协调节点的位置及其证明,并基于该理论提出了一类能量高效的传感器网络时空查询算法ECSTA.最后通过实验分析了节点密度和查询区域大小对算法能量消耗的影响.理论和实验结果表明ECSTA算法优于现有的STWin框架下的算法.