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16 papers
Energy-Predictive Planning for Optimizing Drone Service Delivery
Guanting Ren, Babar Shahzaad, Balsam Alkouz +2
We propose a novel Energy-Predictive Drone Service (EPDS) framework for efficient package delivery within a skyway network. The EPDS framework incorporates a formal modeling of an…
Edge-Mapping of Service Function Trees for Sensor Event Processing
Babar Shahzaad, Alistair Barros, Colin Fidge
Fog computing offers increased performance and efficiency for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications through distributed data processing in nearby proximity to sensors.…
Reactive Composition of UAV Delivery Services in Urban Environments
Woojin Lee, Babar Shahzaad, Balsam Alkouz +1
We propose a novel failure-aware reactive UAV delivery service composition framework. A skyway network infrastructure is presented for the effective provisioning of services in urb…
Optimizing Drone Delivery in Smart Cities
Babar Shahzaad, Balsam Alkouz, Jermaine Janszen +1
We propose a novel context-aware drone delivery framework for optimizing package delivery through skyway networks in smart cities. We reformulate the problem of finding an optimal…
Service-based Trajectory Planning in Multi-Drone Skyway Networks
Sarah Bradley, Albertus Alvin Janitra, Babar Shahzaad +3
We present a demonstration of service-based trajectory planning for a drone delivery system in a multi-drone skyway network. We conduct several experiments using Crazyflie drones t…
Drone Formation for Efficient Swarm Energy Consumption
Shilong Guo, Balsam Alkouz, Babar Shahzaad +2
We demonstrate formation flying for drone swarm services. A set of drones fly in four different swarm formations. A dataset is collected to study the effect of formation flying on…
Autonomous Delivery of Multiple Packages Using Single Drone in Urban Airspace
Seunghyun Lee, Babar Shahzaad, Balsam Alkouz +2
Current drone delivery solutions mainly focus on single package delivery using one drone. However, the recent developments in drone technology enable a drone to deliver multiple pa…
Service-Oriented Architecture for Drone-based Multi-Package Delivery
Babar Shahzaad, Athman Bouguettaya
We propose a novel service-oriented architecture for drone-based multi-package delivery in a skyway network. The proposed architecture provides a high-level design for deploying a…
Constraint-based Formation of Drone Swarms
Xijing Liu, Kevin Lam, Balsam Alkouz +2
Drone swarms are required for the simultaneous delivery of multiple packages. We demonstrate a multi-stop drone swarm-based delivery in a smart city. We leverage formation flying t…
Service-Based Drone Delivery
Balsam Alkouz, Babar Shahzaad, Athman Bouguettaya
Service delivery is set to experience a major paradigm shift with fast advances in drone technologies coupled with higher expectations from customers and increased competition. We…
Top-k Dynamic Service Composition in Skyway Networks
Babar Shahzaad, Athman Bouguettaya
We propose a novel top-k service composition framework for drone services under a dynamic environment. We develop a system model for formal modelling of drone services in a skyway…
Constraint-Aware Trajectory for Drone Delivery Services
Jermaine Janszen, Babar Shahzaad, Balsam Alkouz +1
Drones are becoming a novel means for delivery services. We present a demonstration of drone delivery services in a skyway network that uses the service paradigm. A set of experime…
Package Delivery Using Autonomous Drones in Skyways
Woojin Lee, Balsam Alkouz, Babar Shahzaad +1
Current drone delivery systems mostly focus on point-to-point package delivery. We present a multi-stop drone service system to deliver packages anywhere anytime within a specified…
Robust Composition of Drone Delivery Services under Uncertainty
Babar Shahzaad, Athman Bouguettaya, Sajib Mistry
We propose a novel robust composition framework for drone delivery services considering changes in the wind patterns in urban areas. The proposed framework incorporates the dynamic…
Resilient Composition of Drone Services for Delivery
Babar Shahzaad, Athman Bouguettaya, Sajib Mistry +1
We propose a novel resilient drone service composition framework for delivery in dynamic weather conditions. We use a skyline approach to select an optimal set of candidate drone s…
A Game-Theoretic Drone-as-a-Service Composition for Delivery
Babar Shahzaad, Athman Bouguettaya, Sajib Mistry
We propose a novel game-theoretic approach for drone service composition considering recharging constraints. We design a non-cooperative game model for drone services. We propose a…