Internet of Drones
This addresses the need for scalable drone traffic management for applications like delivery and surveillance, but it is incremental as it builds on existing network concepts.
The paper tackles the problem of coordinating unmanned aerial vehicles in controlled airspace by proposing a conceptual model for the Internet of Drones (IoD) architecture, specifying features for drone traffic management based on insights from air traffic control, cellular networks, and the Internet.
The Internet of Drones (IoD) is a layered network control architecture designed mainly for coordinating the access of unmanned aerial vehicles to controlled airspace, and providing navigation services between locations referred to as nodes. The IoD provides generic services for various drone applications such as package delivery, traffic surveillance, search and rescue and more. In this paper, we present a conceptual model of how such an architecture can be organized and we specify the features that an IoD system based on our architecture should implement. For doing so, we extract key concepts from three existing large scale networks, namely the air traffic control network, the cellular network, and the Internet and explore their connections to our novel architecture for drone traffic management.