1st International ICST Conference on Communication System Software and MiddleWare

Research Article

Efficient Algorithms for Probabilistic Spatial Queries in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/COMSWA.2006.1665177,
        author={Dominique  Dudkowski and Pedro Jose  Marron,   and Kurt  Rothermel},
        title={Efficient Algorithms for Probabilistic Spatial Queries in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Conference on Communication System Software and MiddleWare},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={COMSWARE},
        year={2006},
        month={8},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/COMSWA.2006.1665177}
    }
    
  • Dominique Dudkowski
    Pedro Jose Marron,
    Kurt Rothermel
    Year: 2006
    Efficient Algorithms for Probabilistic Spatial Queries in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
    COMSWARE
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/COMSWA.2006.1665177
Dominique Dudkowski1,*, Pedro Jose Marron, 1,*, Kurt Rothermel1,*
  • 1: University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems (IPVS)
*Contact email: dudkowski@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de, marron@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de, rothermel@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de

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