Approximate Range Thresholding

Abstract

In this paper, we study the (approximate) Range Thresholding (RT) problem over streams. Each stream element is a d-dimensional point and with a positive integer weight. An RT query q specifies a d-dimensional axis-parallel rectangular range R(q) and a positive integer threshold τ(q). Once the query q is registered in the system, define s(q) as the total weight of the elements that satisfy: (i) they arrive after q's registration, and (ii) they fall in the range R(q). Given a real number 0 < ϵ < 1, the task of the system is to capture an arbitrary moment during the period between the first moment when s(q) ≥ (1-ϵ)... τ(q) and the first moment when s(q) ≥ τ(q). The challenge is to support a lar..