Service-based drone delivery

B Alkouz, B Shahzaad… - 2021 IEEE 7th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Service delivery is set to experience a major paradigm shift with fast advances in drone
technologies coupled with higher expectations from customers and increased competition …

Constraint-aware trajectory for drone delivery services

J Janszen, B Shahzaad, B Alkouz… - … Conference on Service …, 2021 - Springer
Drones are becoming a novel means for delivery services. We present a demonstration of
drone delivery services in a skyway network that uses the service paradigm. A set of …

Optimizing drone delivery in smart cities

B Shahzaad, B Alkouz, J Janszen… - IEEE Internet …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

A reinforcement learning approach for re-allocating drone swarm services

B Alkouz, A Bouguettaya - International Conference on Service-Oriented …, 2021 - Springer
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 …

Constraint-based formation of drone swarms

X Liu, K Lam, B Alkouz, B Shahzaad… - … Workshops and other …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Service-oriented architecture for drone-based multi-package delivery

B Shahzaad, A Bouguettaya - 2022 IEEE International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a novel service-oriented architecture for drone-based multi-package delivery.
The proposed architecture provides a high-level design for deploying a skyway network in a …

Density-based pruning of drone swarm services

B Alkouz, A Bouguettaya… - 2022 IEEE International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Autonomous delivery of multiple packages using single drone in urban airspace

S Lee, B Shahzaad, B Alkouz, A Lakhdari… - Adjunct Proceedings of …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Current drone delivery solutions mainly focus on single package delivery using one drone.
However, the recent developments in drone technology enable a drone to deliver multiple …

Failure-sentient composition for swarm-based drone services

B Alkouz, A Bouguettaya… - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a novel failure-sentient framework for swarm-based drone delivery services.
The framework ensures that those drones that experience a noticeable degradation in their …

Drone formation for efficient swarm energy consumption

S Guo, B Alkouz, B Shahzaad… - … and other Affiliated …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate formation flying for drone swarm services. A set of drones fly in four different
swarm formations. A dataset is collected to study the effect of formation flying on energy …