Indexing Partial History Trajectory and Future Position of Moving Objects Using HTPR*-Tree

Currently, most indexing methods of moving objects are focused on the past position, or the present and future one. In this paper, we propose a novel indexing method, called History TPR*-tree(HTPR*-tree), which not only supports predictive queries but also partial history ones involved from the most recent update instant of each object to the last update time of all objects. Based on the TPR*-tree, our Basic HTPR*-tree adds creation or update time of moving objects to leaf node entries. In order to improve the update performance, we present a bottom-up update strategy for the HTPR*-tree by supplementing a hash table, a bit vector and a direct access table. Experimental results show that the update performance of the HTPR*-tree is better than that of the Basic HTPR*-and TPR*-tree. In addition to support partial history queries, the update and predictive query performance of the HTPR*-tree are greatly improved compared with those of the RPPF-tree.