Paper ID: 2304.14622

Optimizing Drone Delivery in Smart Cities

Babar Shahzaad, Balsam Alkouz, Jermaine Janszen, 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 elegant drone delivery service composition problem. In this respect, we propose a novel line-of-sight heuristic-based context-aware composition algorithm that selects and composes near-optimal drone delivery services. We conducted an extensive experiment using a real dataset to show the robustness of our proposed approach.

Submitted: Apr 28, 2023