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Scalable Network Distance Browsing in Spatial Databases

Summary: Best-first kNN on spatial networks with precomputed all-pairs shortest paths and a first-edge decomposition, decoupling path work from candidate sets. Shortest-path quadtree uses spatial coherence to trim storage from O(N^3) to O(N^1.5) and lets the same paths be reused across object queries when the network is static. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h8e903586f039a9c3
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2008
Pagerank
0.00018112854
Overall Rank
449 | 97.00%
DOI
10.1145/1376616.1376623

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{samet_sigmod08,
        title = {{Scalable Network Distance Browsing in Spatial Databases}},
        author = {Samet, Hanan and Sankaranarayanan, Jagan and Alborzi, Houman},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '08},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1376616.1376623},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376616.1376623},
        year = {2008}
}

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Showing 33 of 33 citing papers.

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954 Shortest Path and Distance Queries on Road Networks: An Experimental Evaluation 2012 VLDB 0.00012856563
993 Path Oracles for Spatial Networks 2009 VLDB 0.00012620373
1,233 Shortest Path and Distance Queries on Road Networks: Towards Bridging Theory and Practice 2013 SIGMOD 0.00011397529
1,250 A Highway-Centric Labeling Approach for Answering Distance Queries on Large Sparse Graphs 2012 SIGMOD 0.00011325987
1,430 On k-skip Shortest Paths 2011 SIGMOD 0.00010676829
1,577 Hop Doubling Label Indexing for Point-to-Point Distance Querying on Scale-Free Networks 2014 VLDB 0.00010155939
1,581 When Hierarchy Meets 2-Hop-Labeling: Efficient Shortest Distance Queries on Road Networks 2018 SIGMOD 0.00010151896
1,653 IS-LABEL: an Independent-Set based Labeling Scheme for Point-to-Point Distance Querying 2013 VLDB 9.9588776e-05
1,661 Continuous Monitoring of Nearest Neighbors on Land Surface 2009 VLDB 9.9409992e-05
2,206 Monitoring Path Nearest Neighbor in Road Networks 2009 SIGMOD 8.850101e-05
3,676 Relative Subboundedness of Contraction Hierarchy and Hierarchical 2-Hop Index in Dynamic Road Networks 2022 SIGMOD 7.0882436e-05
3,935 Effective Caching of Shortest Paths for Location-Based Services 2012 SIGMOD 6.8990945e-05
4,125 Graph Indexing for Shortest-Path Finding over Dynamic Sub-Graphs 2016 SIGMOD 6.7797682e-05
4,631 Architecture-Intact Oracle for Fastest Path and Time Queries on Dynamic Spatial Networks 2020 SIGMOD 6.4784075e-05
4,688 TOAIN: A Throughput Optimizing Adaptive Index for Answering Dynamic kNN Queries on Road Networks 2018 VLDB 6.4517069e-05
5,084 The V*-Diagram: A Query-Dependent Approach to Moving KNN Queries 2008 VLDB 6.2674446e-05
5,555 Efficient Reachability Query Evaluation in Large Spatiotemporal Contact Datasets 2012 VLDB 6.0705671e-05
5,981 k-Nearest Neighbors on Road Networks: A Journey in Experimentation and In-Memory Implementation 2016 VLDB 5.9101446e-05
7,008 An Experimental Evaluation and Guideline for Path Finding in Weighted Dynamic Network 2021 VLDB 5.6061911e-05
7,031 Exact Top-k Nearest Keyword Search in Large Networks 2015 SIGMOD 5.6000241e-05
7,344 Nearest Keyword Search in XML Documents 2011 SIGMOD 5.5321368e-05
7,995 TRACE: Real-time Compression of Streaming Trajectories in Road Networks 2021 VLDB 5.3942608e-05
8,000 Shortest Path Computation with No Information Leakage 2012 VLDB 5.3930304e-05
8,085 Correlation Constraint Shortest Path over Large Multi-Relation Graphs 2019 VLDB 5.3751128e-05
8,684 Top-K Nearest Keyword Search on Large Graphs 2013 VLDB 5.2733276e-05
8,738 Finding Shortest Path on Land Surface 2011 SIGMOD 5.2705676e-05
9,312 Efficient Algorithms for Finding Optimal Meeting Point on Road Networks 2011 VLDB 5.1841624e-05
9,347 Processing Proximity Relations in Road Networks 2010 SIGMOD 5.176541e-05
9,568 SkyGraph: Retrieving Regions of Interest using Skyline Subgraph Queries 2017 VLDB 5.1441741e-05
11,606 LION: Fast and High-Resolution Network Kernel Density Visualization 2024 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
11,653 Efficient kNN Search in Public Transportation Networks 2024 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
12,814 Shortest Path Computation on Air Indexes 2010 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
14,081 Techniques for Similarity Searching in Multimedia Databases 2010 VLDB -
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
28 Nearest Neighbor Queries 1995 SIGMOD 0.00051134355
463 Query Processing in Spatial Network Databases 2003 VLDB 0.00017806376
681 Voronoi-Based K Nearest Neighbor Search for Spatial Network Databases 2004 VLDB 0.00014792999
1,053 An Efficient and Scalable Approach to CNN Queries in a Road Network 2005 VLDB 0.00012260546
2,689 Distance Indexing on Road Networks 2006 VLDB 8.1137602e-05
7,434 A Population Analysis for Hierarchical Data Structures 1987 SIGMOD 5.5133644e-05
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