2-D Spatial Indexing Scheme in Optimal Time

  • Authors:
  • Nectarios Kitsios;Christos Makris;Spyros Sioutas;Athanasios K. Tsakalidis;John Tsaknakis;Bill Vassiliadis

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ADBIS-DASFAA '00 Proceedings of the East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems Held Jointly with International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications: Current Issues in Databases and Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We consider the 2-dimensional space with integer coordinates in the range [1, N] × [1, N]. We present the MPST (Modified Priority Search Tree) index structure which reports the k points that lie inside the quadrant query range (- ¥, b) × (- ¥, c) in optimal O(k) time. Our Index Scheme is simple, fast and it can be used in various geometric or spatial applications such as: (1) 2 D dominance reporting on a grid (2) 2D maximal elements on a grid. Then, based on structures of Gabow et al. [6] and Beam and Fich [31] we describe an index scheme, which handles in an efficient way window queries in spatial database applications. In the general case in which the plane has real coordinates the above time results are slowed down by adding a logarithmic factor due to the normalization technique.