Indexing Continual Range Queries for Location-Aware Mobile Services

  • Authors:
  • Kun-Lung Wu;Shyh-Kwei Chen;Philip S. Yu

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • EEE '04 Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service (EEE'04)
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We study a new main memory-based approach to indexingcontinual range queries to support location-awaremobile services. The query index is used to efficiently answerthe following question repeatedly: "Which moving objectsare currently located inside the boundaries of individualqueries?" We present a covering tile-based (COVET)query index, where adjacent covering tiles touch each otheronly at the edges. A set of virtual tiles are predefined, eachwith a unique ID. One or more of the virtual tiles are usedto strictly cover individual range queries. A COVET indexmaintains a direct mapping between covering tiles andqueries. It allows query evaluation to take advantage of incrementalchanges in object locations. Simulations are conductedto evaluate the effectiveness of the COVET index andcompare virtual tiles of different shapes and sizes.