Hop Doubling Label Indexing for Point-to-Point Distance Querying on Scale-Free Networks

Summary: Hop Doubling Labeling for point-to-point distance querying on scale-free graphs; novel hop-doubling index for directed/undirected, unweighted networks. Bounds on index size, compute and I/O costs derived from scale-free properties; empirically outperforms state-of-the-art and scales to graphs orders of magnitude larger. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hfbb33f2caa5de42c
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 0.00010155939
Overall Rank: 1,577 | 89.44%
DOI: 10.14778/2733004.2733012
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Authors

1. Minhao Jiang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
2. Ada Wai-Chee Fu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
3. Raymond Chi-Wing Wong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
4. Yanyan Xu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

BibTeX Citation

@article{jiang_vldb14,
        title = {{Hop Doubling Label Indexing for Point-to-Point Distance Querying on Scale-Free Networks}},
        author = {Jiang, Minhao and Fu, Ada Wai-Chee and Wong, Raymond Chi-Wing and Xu, Yanyan},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '14},
        volume = {7},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1203--1214},
        doi = {10.14778/2733004.2733012},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2733004.2733012},
        year = {2014}
}

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376	TEDI: Efficient Shortest Path Query Answering on Graphs	2010	SIGMOD	0.00019655871
449	Scalable Network Distance Browsing in Spatial Databases	2008	SIGMOD	0.00018112854
993	Path Oracles for Spatial Networks	2009	VLDB	0.00012620373
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1,430	On k-skip Shortest Paths	2011	SIGMOD	0.00010676829
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