Reactive Composition of UAV Delivery Services in Urban Environments

TL;DR

This paper introduces a reactive framework for UAV delivery service composition in urban environments, utilizing a skyway network and algorithms to handle service failures efficiently.

Contribution

It presents a formal drone delivery model, a system architecture, and novel algorithms for reactive service composition in urban UAV delivery networks.

Findings

Algorithms effectively reduce search space during failures

Experimental results demonstrate approach's efficiency

Framework enhances reliability of urban UAV delivery

Abstract

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 urban areas. We present a formal drone delivery service model and a system architecture for reactive drone delivery services. We develop radius-based, cell density-based, and two-phased algorithms to reduce the search space and perform reactive service compositions when a service failure occurs. We conduct a set of experiments with a real drone dataset to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach.