Location-Aware Network of Drones for Consumer Applications: Supporting Efficient Management Between Multiple Drones

Abstract

Drones or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are being deployed in numerous consumer applications to provide an enhanced quality of experience (QoE). Drone-assisted consumer applications are classified into three domains: data relaying, monitoring and data collection, and product delivery. We present a network of drones (NoDs)-based architecture to support efficient management between multiple drones for sensing, analyzing and processing data, and we summarize the open issues and future directions. This multi-UAV network utilizes the extended concept of a mobile ad hoc network for efficient packet transfer. Using this architecture, the use of location-aware drones has been presented as a product delivery and quality-of-service (QoS) enhancement agent for Internet services.