The Internet of Flying-Things: Opportunities and Challenges with Airborne Fog Computing and Mobile Cloud in the Clouds

TL;DR

This paper explores airborne fog computing and mobile cloud services, discussing innovative concepts like drones-as-a-service, data management challenges, and system design issues for enhancing mobile user experiences.

Contribution

It introduces new airborne computing concepts and addresses key challenges in data management, system design, and infrastructure optimization for airborne fog computing.

Findings

Identification of data management issues in airborne computing

Proposals for optimizing infrastructure for QoS and QoE

Discussion of system design and interaction challenges

Abstract

This paper focuses on services and applications provided to mobile users using airborne computing infrastructure. We present concepts such as drones-as-a-service and fly-in,fly-out infrastructure, and note data management and system design issues that arise in these scenarios. Issues of Big Data arising from such applications, optimising the configuration of airborne and ground infrastructure to provide the best QoS and QoE, situation-awareness, scalability, reliability, scheduling for efficiency, interaction with users and drones using physical annotations are outlined.