Simpler is More: Efficient Top-K Nearest Neighbors Search on Large Road Networks

Summary: Proposes KNN-Index, a compact, size-bounded index that answers top-k road-network kNN queries optimally and progressively while avoiding heavy precomputation. Uses a bidirectional construction to share work, dramatically reducing index size and build/query time. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13713
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 4.4893996e-05
Overall Rank: 8,526 | 40.75%
DOI: 10.14778/3704965.3704975

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,171	High-Throughput k Nearest Neighbors Search in Road Networks	2026	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
391	Query Processing in Spatial Network Databases	2003	VLDB	0.00024560891
597	Voronoi-Based K Nearest Neighbor Search for Spatial Network Databases	2004	VLDB	0.00019450818
985	An Efficient and Scalable Approach to CNN Queries in a Road Network	2005	VLDB	0.00014834799
1,580	Continuous Nearest Neighbor Monitoring in Road Networks	2006	VLDB	0.00011272266
2,206	When Hierarchy Meets 2-Hop-Labeling: Efficient Shortest Distance Queries on Road Networks	2018	SIGMOD	9.2958349e-05
4,856	TOAIN: A Throughput Optimizing Adaptive Index for Answering Dynamic kNN Queries on Road Networks	2018	VLDB	5.868876e-05
6,259	Neural Attributed Community Search at Billion Scale	2023	SIGMOD	5.1305787e-05
6,497	Progressive Top-K Nearest Neighbors Search in Large Road Networks	2020	SIGMOD	5.0324877e-05
6,601	Missing Data Imputation with Uncertainty-Driven Network	2024	SIGMOD	4.9924633e-05
7,444	Efficient Label-Constrained Shortest Path Queries on Road Networks: A Tree Decomposition Approach	2022	VLDB	4.7236107e-05
8,821	Efficient Unsupervised Community Search with Pre-trained Graph Transformer	2024	VLDB	4.437516e-05
8,904	Efficient Influence Minimization via Node Blocking	2024	VLDB	4.4229886e-05
9,485	I/O Efficient Label-Constrained Reachability Queries in Large Graphs	2024	VLDB	4.3300131e-05
10,967	Graph Summarization: Compactness Meets Efficiency	2024	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
11,008	Influence Maximization via Vertex Countering	2024	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,063	Efficient Maximal Frequent Group Enumeration in Temporal Bipartite Graphs	2024	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

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