Service-Oriented Architecture for Drone-based Multi-Package Delivery

TL;DR

This paper introduces a service-oriented architecture for drone delivery in urban skyway networks, utilizing a graph-based heuristic to optimize service selection and demonstrate efficiency through experiments.

Contribution

It presents a novel architecture and a heuristic method for optimizing drone delivery services in a city skyway network, improving efficiency.

Findings

The proposed architecture effectively supports multi-package drone delivery.

The graph-based heuristic reduces search space for service selection.

Experiments show improved efficiency of the approach.

Abstract

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 skyway network in a city for the effective provisioning of drone services. We propose a graph-based heuristic to reduce the search space for optimal service selection in the skyway network. We then find an optimal solution using the selected drone services under a set of constraints. We conduct experiments to demonstrate the efficiency of our proposed approach.