Local network Voronoi diagrams

Abstract

Continuous queries in road networks have gained significant research interests due to advances in GIS and mobile computing. Consider the following scenario: "A driver uses a networked GPS navigator to monitor five nearest gas stations in a road network." The main challenge of processing such a moving query is how to efficiently monitor network distances of the k nearest and possible resultant objects. To enable result monitoring in real-time, researchers have devised techniques which utilize precomputed distances and results, e.g., the network Voronoi diagram (NVD). However, the main drawback of preprocessing is that it requires access to all data objects and network nodes, which means that ..