Efficient search of moving objects on a planar graph

  • Authors:
  • Thuy Thi Thu Le;Bradford G. Nickerson

  • Affiliations:
  • University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N.B. Canada;University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N.B. Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL international conference on Advances in geographic information systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We present a dynamic spatio-temporal data structure called the Graph Strip Tree (GStree) for indexing objects constrained to move on a graph. The GStree is designed to efficiently answer range queries about the current or past positions of moving objects. To test the efficiency of our data structure, a road network of 66,437 roads was used. Average search times for random queries to find moving objects indexed by a GStree were compared to average search times for the same queries on moving objects indexed by a MON-tree. Results indicate that the GStree is up to 24 times faster than the MON-tree for internal memory searching, and visits between 3.6 and 38 times fewer nodes. Analysis indicates the GStree will be significantly faster for external memory search where the search time is dominated by the number of disk I/Os.