Swarm Network-as-a-Service (SNaaS)
Balsam Alkouz, Osama Amin, Basem Shihada

TL;DR
SNaaS is a drone-based, service-oriented framework that dynamically orchestrates swarms to provide reliable, on-demand connectivity with SLA guarantees, outperforming fixed configurations in latency and SLA adherence.
Contribution
It introduces a formal service model, an SDN-inspired architecture, and a composition framework with strategies and adaptive control for drone swarms in connectivity services.
Findings
Experiments show SNaaS reduces latency and SLA violations.
The framework adapts effectively to load and swarm size changes.
Dynamic reconfiguration improves service reliability.
Abstract
Emerging on-demand connectivity scenarios increasingly require networking solutions with stringent service-level guarantees. We propose Swarm Network-as-a-Service (SNaaS), a service-oriented framework that leverages fleets of drones to provide on-demand connectivity at scale. SNaaS explicitly models drone-to-device and drone-to-drone interactions as composable services, enabling consumers to request connectivity through Service-Level Agreements (SLAs). We formalize atomic and composite SNaaS services, present an SDN-inspired architecture that integrates the service-oriented triad of provider, consumer, and registry. We introduce a composition framework that orchestrates drones into end-to-end services. Within this framework, we define and analyze three composition strategies, i.e., direct, clustered, and parallel, and propose a queuing-theory-based heuristic for selecting the most…
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