Lineage Encoding: An Efficient Wireless XML Streaming Supporting Twig Pattern Queries

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an energy and latency efficient XML dissemination scheme for the mobile computing. We define a novel unit structure called G-node for streaming XML data in the wireless environment. It exploits the benefits of the structure indexing and attribute summarization that can integrate relevant XML elements into a group. It provides a way for selective access of their attribute values and text content. We also propose a lightweight and effective encoding scheme, called Lineage Encoding, to support evaluation of predicates and twig pattern queries over the stream. The Lineage Encoding scheme represents the parent-child relationships among XML elements as a sequence of bit-strings, called Lineage Code(V, H), and provides basic operators and functions for effective twig pattern query processing at mobile clients. Extensive experiments using real and synthetic data sets demonstrate our scheme outperforms conventional wireless XML broadcasting methods for simple path queries as well as complex twig pattern queries with predicate conditions.