Service-based drone delivery

B Alkouz, B Shahzaad… - 2021 IEEE 7th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Service-oriented architecture for drone-based multi-package delivery

B Shahzaad, A Bouguettaya - 2022 IEEE International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a novel service-oriented architecture for drone-based multi-package delivery.
The proposed architecture provides a high-level design for deploying a skyway network in a …

Package delivery using autonomous drones in skyways

W Lee, B Alkouz, B Shahzaad… - Adjunct Proceedings of …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Drones-as-a-service: A management architecture to provide mission planning, resource brokerage and operation support for fleets of drones

JA Besada, AM Bernardos, L Bergesio… - 2019 IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Drone operators, institutions (eg law enforcement, rescue agencies, preservation organisms,
etc.) and companies (logistics, surveillance, inspection, etc.), are constituting themselves as …

Constraint-based formation of drone swarms

X Liu, K Lam, B Alkouz, B Shahzaad… - … Workshops and other …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Drone services: An investigation via prototyping and simulation

M Alwateer, SW Loke, W Rahayu - 2018 IEEE 4th World Forum …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although drones are currently used in many outdoor and indoor applications, still there are
numerous opportunities to be explored by combining drones with other accessible …

Optimizing drone delivery in smart cities

B Shahzaad, B Alkouz, J Janszen… - IEEE Internet …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Composing drone-as-a-service (daas) for delivery

B Shahzaad, A Bouguettaya, S Mistry… - … Conference on Web …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a novel composition framework for drone-based package delivery services
termed as Drone-as-a-Service (DaaS). The proposed framework includes a spatio-temporal …

Constraint-aware trajectory for drone delivery services

J Janszen, B Shahzaad, B Alkouz… - … Conference on Service …, 2021 - Springer
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 …

Provider-centric allocation of drone swarm services

B Alkouz, A Bouguettaya - 2021 IEEE International Conference …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a novel framework for the allocation of drone swarms for delivery services
known as Swarm-based Drone-as-a-Service (SDaaS). The allocation framework ensures …