• Distributed skip air index for smart broadcasting in intelligent transportation systems 

      Maglaras, L. A.; Katsaros, D. (2012)
      Wireless data broadcast received a lot of attention from industries and academia in recent years. In any form of a push-based broadcast, access latency and tuning time are vital issues, and in order to address the tradeoff ...
    • An efficient flash-aware spatial index for points 

      Carniel A.C., Roumelis G., Ciferri R.R., Vassilakopoulos M., Corral A., Ciferri C.D.deA. (2018)
      Spatial database systems often employ spatial indices to speed up the processing of spatial queries. In addition, modern spatial database applications are interested in exploiting the positive characteristics of flash-based ...
    • Join-queries between two spatial datasets indexed by a single R*-tree 

      Vassilakopoulos, M.; Corral, A.; Karanikolas, N. N. (2011)
      A spatial join, a common query in Spatial Databases and Geographical Information Systems (GIS), consists in testing every possible pair of data elements belonging to two spatial datasets against a spatial predicate. This ...
    • LB-Grid: An SSD efficient Grid File 

      Fevgas A., Bozanis P. (2019)
      Recent advances in non-volatile memory technology have led to the introduction of solid state drives (SSD). NVMe SSDs are the latest development in flash based solid state drives and they were designed as a means of low ...