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We propose a novel framework for composing Swarm-based Drone-as-a-Service (SDaaS) for delivery. Two composition approaches, i.e., sequential and parallel are designed considering the different behaviors of drone swarms. The proposed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Balsam Alkouz , Athman Bouguettaya , Sajib Mistry

We propose a novel resilient drone service composition framework for delivery in dynamic weather conditions. We use a skyline approach to select an optimal set of candidate drone services at the source node in a skyway network. Drone…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Babar Shahzaad , Athman Bouguettaya , Sajib Mistry , Azadeh Ghari Neiat

We propose a novel robust composition framework for drone delivery services considering changes in the wind patterns in urban areas. The proposed framework incorporates the dynamic arrival of drone services at the recharging stations. We…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Babar Shahzaad , Athman Bouguettaya , Sajib Mistry

We propose a novel framework for the recommendation of swarm-based drone delivery services based on the consumers preferences. We propose a density-based pruning approach that uses the concept of partnerships with charging station providers…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Balsam Alkouz , Athman Bouguettaya , Abdallah Lakhdari

We propose a novel framework for swarm-based drone delivery services with in-flight energy recharging. The framework aims to enhance the delivery time of multiple packages by reducing the number of stops and recharging times at intermediate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Balsam Alkouz , Amani Abusafia , Abdallah Lakhdari , Athman Bouguettaya

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…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Woojin Lee , Babar Shahzaad , Balsam Alkouz , Athman Bouguettaya

Swarm of drones are increasingly being asked to carry out missions that can't be completed by one drone. Particularly, in delivery, issues arise due to the swarm's limited flight endurance. Hence, we propose a novel formation-guided…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Balsam Alkouz , Athman Bouguettaya

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 optimal drone service delivery pathway as a more congruent and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Babar Shahzaad , Balsam Alkouz , Jermaine Janszen , Athman Bouguettaya

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 minimum cost (aka maximum profit) to drone swarm providers while meeting…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Balsam Alkouz , Athman Bouguettaya

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…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Balsam Alkouz , Osama Amin , Basem Shihada

Drone susceptibility to jamming or spoofing attacks of GPS, RF, Wi-Fi, and operator signals presents a danger to future medical delivery systems. A detection framework capable of sensing attacks on drones could provide the capability for…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Philip H. Kulp , Nagi Mei

We propose a novel framework for the re-allocation of drone swarms for delivery services known as Swarm-based Drone-as-a-Service (SDaaS). The re-allocation framework ensures maximum profit to drone swarm providers while meeting the time…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Balsam Alkouz , Athman Bouguettaya

Due to the limited computing resources of swarm of drones, it is difficult to handle computation-intensive tasks locally, hence the cloud based computation offloading is widely adopted. However, for the business which requires low latency…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Xiangwang Hou , Zhiyuan Ren , Wenchi Cheng , Chen Chen , Hailin Zhang

This paper introduces a safe swarm of drones capable of performing landings in crowded environments robustly by relying on Reinforcement Learning techniques combined with Safe Learning. The developed system allows us to teach the swarm of…

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 flying to conserve energy and increase the flight range of a drone…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Xijing Liu , Kevin Lam , Balsam Alkouz , Babar Shahzaad , Athman Bouguettaya

We introduce and study a new cooperative delivery problem inspired by drone-assisted package delivery. We consider a scenario where a drone, en route to deliver a package to a destination (a point on the plane), unexpectedly loses…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Jared Coleman , Danny Krizanc , Evangelos Kranakis , Oscar Morales-Ponce

We propose a novel top-k service composition framework for drone services under a dynamic environment. We develop a system model for formal modelling of drone services in a skyway network. The composition process is accomplished in two…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Babar Shahzaad , Athman Bouguettaya

We propose an uncertainty-aware service approach to provide drone-based delivery services called Drone-as-a-Service (DaaS) effectively. Specifically, we propose a service model of DaaS based on the dynamic spatiotemporal features of drones…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Ali Hamdi , Flora D. Salim , Du Yong Kim , Azadeh Ghari Neiat , Athman Bouguettaya

We propose a novel Energy-Predictive Drone Service (EPDS) framework for efficient package delivery within a skyway network. The EPDS framework incorporates a formal modeling of an EPDS and an adaptive bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Guanting Ren , Babar Shahzaad , Balsam Alkouz , Abdallah Lakhdari , Athman Bouguettaya

Disaster response requires rapid, adaptive decision-making in chaotic environments. SwarmFusion, a novel hybrid framework, integrates particle swarm optimization with convolutional neural networks to optimize real-time resource allocation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Vasavi Lankipalle
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