Drone-based Services in Smart Cities

Drone-based Services in Smart Cities
3 Aug 2017

Babar Shahzaad and Athman Bouguettaya.

We focus on leveraging the power of the service paradigm to model drone delivery services. We propose a novel Drone-as-a-Service (DaaS) composition framework considering the functional and non-functional (Quality of Service) properties of drone delivery services. We consider the recharging constraints and environmental uncertainties to develop a service model and a quality model for drone delivery services. The outcome of this research is an efficient drone service selection and composition infrastructure to create new opportunities for innovative, faster, and cheaper delivery solutions.

Publications

– Conferences:
  1. Service-Oriented Architecture for Drone-based Multi-Package Delivery. Babar Shahzaad, and Athman Bouguettaya. ICWS 2022, Barcelona, Spain.
  2. Service-Based Drone Delivery. Balsam Alkouz, Babar Shahzaad, Athman Bouguettaya. IEEE CIC 2021, Virtual.
  3. Top-k Dynamic Service Composition in Skyway Networks. Babar Shahzaad, and Athman Bouguettaya. ICSOC 2021, Virtual.
  4. Robust Composition of Drone Delivery Services under Uncertainty Babar Shahzaad, Athman Bouguettaya, and Sajib Mistry. ICWS 2021, Virtual.
  5. A Game-Theoretic Drone-as-a-Service Composition for Delivery. Babar Shahzaad, Athman Bouguettaya, and Sajib Mistry. ICWS 2020, Beijing, China.
  6. Constraint-Aware Drone-as-a-Service Composition. Babar Shahzaad, Athman Bouguettaya, Sajib Mistry, and Azadeh Ghari Neiat. ICSOC 2019, Toulouse, France.
  7. Composing Drone-as-a-Service (DaaS) for Delivery. Babar Shahzaad, Athman Bouguettaya, Sajib Mistry, and Azadeh Ghari Neiat. ICWS 2019: Milan, Italy.
– Demos:
  1. Service-based Trajectory Planning in Multi-Drone Skyway Networks. Sarah Bradley, Albertus Alvin Janitra, Babar Shahzaad, Balsam Alkouz, Athman Bouguettaya, and Abdallah Lakhdari. PerCom 2023, Atlanta, USA, Demo paper.
  2. Autonomous Delivery of Multiple Packages Using Single Drone in Urban Airspace. Seunghyun Lee, Babar Shahzaad, Balsam Alkouz, Abdallah Lakhdari, and Athman Bouguettaya. UbiComp 2022, Virtual, Demo paper.
  3. Constraint-Aware Trajectory for Drone Delivery Services. Jermaine Janszen, Babar Shahzaad, Balsam Alkouz, and Athman Bouguettaya. ICSOC 2021, Virtual, Demo paper.
  4. Package Delivery Using Autonomous Drones in Skyways. Woojin Lee, Balsam Alkouz, Babar Shazaad, and Athman Bouguettaya. UbiComp21, Virtual, Demo paper.
– Journals:
  1. Resilient Composition of Drone Services for Delivery. Babar Shahzaad, Athman Bouguettaya, Sajib Mistry, and Azadeh Ghari Neiat. Future Generation Computer Systems (2020).
  2. Optimizing Drone Delivery in Smart Cities. Babar Shahzaad, Balsam Alkouz, Jermaine Janszen, and Athman Bouguettaya. IEEE Internet Computing (2023).