Article in Proceedings INPROC-2006-04

BibliographyDudkowski, Dominique; Marrón, Pedro José; Rothermel, Kurt: Efficient Algorithms for Probabilistic Spatial Queries in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks..
In: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Communication System Software and Middleware (COMSWARE 2006); New Delhi, India, January 2006..
University of Stuttgart : Collaborative Research Center SFB 627 (Nexus: World Models for Mobile Context-Based Systems).
english.
IEEE, January 2006.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CR-SchemaC.2 (Computer-Communication Networks)
KeywordsMobile Ad Hoc Networks; Mobile Ad-hoc-Netze; infrastrukturlose Systeme; probabilistische Anfragen; räumliche Anfragen; spatial queries; probabilistic queries; Anfrageverarbeitung; query processing; data management; MANET
Abstract

With the proliferation of wireless communication and sensor technology, the importance of location-based applications has tremendously increased. In order to support these applications, services that implement algorithms for the efficient processing of spatial queries, such as range and k-nearest neighbor queries, are definitely beneficial. In this paper, we propose definitions of probabilistic range and k-nearest neighbor query semantics that take into account the inaccurate position information acquired from positioning systems. We introduce efficient algorithms for distributed storage of the dynamic information captured by positioning sensors on mobile network nodes, and for processing the aforementioned queries in mobile ad hoc networks. We show by evaluation that the studied algorithms incur small communication costs, and that the query algorithms return accurate results in a timely manner.

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Contactdominique.dudkowski@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Distributed Systems
Project(s)SFB-627, B3 (University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Distributed Systems)
Entry dateFebruary 2, 2006