SPHLU:An Efficient Algorithm for Processing PRkNN Queries on Uncertain Data

Query on uncertain data has received much attention in recent years, especially with the development of Location-based services(LBS). Little research is focused on reverse k nearest neighbor queries on uncertain data. We study the Probabilistic reverse k nearest neighbor(PRkN N) queries on uncertain data. It is succinctly shown that, PRkN N query retrieves all the points that have higher probabilities than a given threshold value to be the Reverse k-nearest neighbor(RkN N) of query data Q.The previous works on this topic mostly process with k > 1.Some algorithms allow the cases for k > 1, but the efficiency is inefficient especially for large k. We propose an efficient pruning algorithm — Spatial pruning heuristic with louer and upper bound(SPHLU) for solving the PRkN N queries for k > 1. The experimental results demonstrate that our algorithm is even more efficient than the existent algorithms especial for a large value of k.