Composing Drone-as-a-Service (DaaS) for delivery

We propose a novel composition framework for drone-based package delivery services termed as Drone-as-a-Service (DaaS). The proposed framework includes a spatio-temporal service model and a quality model for DaaS. A drone service selection algorithm is designed using 3D Rtree. We develop a Dijkstra-based and a heuristic-based drone service composition approach to meet users' delivery requirements, i.e., expected delivery time and cost. Experimental results on a real-world dataset demonstrate the efficiency of our proposed approach.