k-Nearest Neighbors on Road Networks: A Journey in Experimentation and In-Memory Implementation

Summary: In-memory evaluation of kNN on road networks, comparing network distance with Euclidean proxies and reproducing state-of-the-art methods fairly. Revisits the discarded IER approach with a simple improvement, often achieving the best performance. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11528
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 6.0659596e-05
Overall Rank: 5,851 | 59.86%
DOI: 10.14778/2850583.2850592

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Authors

1. Tenindra Abeywickrama (Monash University)
2. Muhammad Aamir Cheema (Monash University)
3. David Taniar (Monash University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{abeywickrama_vldb16,
        title = {{k-Nearest Neighbors on Road Networks: A Journey in Experimentation and In-Memory Implementation}},
        author = {Abeywickrama, Tenindra and Cheema, Muhammad Aamir and Taniar, David},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '16},
        volume = {9},
        number = {6},
        pages = {492--503},
        doi = {10.14778/2850583.2850592},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2850583.2850592},
        year = {2016}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,573	TOAIN: A Throughput Optimizing Adaptive Index for Answering Dynamic kNN Queries on Road Networks	2018	VLDB	6.6226156e-05
8,911	Efficient and Provable Effective Resistance Computation on Large Graphs: an Index-based Approach	2024	SIGMOD	5.3483178e-05
9,229	Continuously Monitoring Alternative Shortest Paths on Road Networks	2020	VLDB	5.3017894e-05
9,334	Adaptive Indexing in High-Dimensional Metric Spaces	2023	VLDB	5.2884486e-05
10,051	VIP-Tree: An Effective Index for Indoor Spatial Queries	2017	VLDB	5.1685424e-05
11,213	LION: Fast and High-Resolution Network Kernel Density Visualization	2024	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,850	Top-k Queries over Digital Traces	2019	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
433	Scalable Network Distance Browsing in Spatial Databases	2008	SIGMOD	0.00018532516
449	Query Processing in Spatial Network Databases	2003	VLDB	0.0001826404
665	Voronoi-Based K Nearest Neighbor Search for Spatial Network Databases	2004	VLDB	0.00015167291
949	Shortest Path and Distance Queries on Road Networks: An Experimental Evaluation	2012	VLDB	0.00013028107
1,025	An Efficient and Scalable Approach to CNN Queries in a Road Network	2005	VLDB	0.00012578515
2,629	Distance Indexing on Road Networks	2006	VLDB	8.3265243e-05
6,669	Spatial Joins in Main Memory: Implementation Matters!	2015	VLDB	5.8077717e-05

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