Batch Hop-Constrained s-t Simple Path Query Processing in Large Graphs

Long Yuan, Kongzhang Hao, Xuemin Lin, Wenjie Zhang

Abstract: Hop-constrained s-t simple path (HC-s-t path) enu-meration is a fundamental problem in graph analysis. Existing solutions for this problem focus on optimizing the processing performance of a single query. However, in practice, it is more often that multiple H C-s-t path queries are issued simultaneously and processed as a batch. Therefore, we study the problem of batch H C-s-t path query processing in this paper and aim to compute the results of all queries concurrently and efficiently as a batch. To achieve this goal, we first propose the concept of H C-s path query which can precisely characterize the common computation among different queries. We then devise a two-phase H C-s path query detection algorithm to identify the common H C-5 path queries for the given H C-s-t path queries. Based on the detected HC-s path queries, we further devise an efficient HC-s-t path enumeration algorithm in which the common computation represented by H C-s path queries are effectively shared. We conduct extensive experiments on real-world graphs and the experimental results demonstrate that our proposed algorithm is efficient and scalable regarding processing multiple HC-s-t path queries in large graphs at billion-scale.