TY - GEN
T1 - Toward a cloud platform for UAV resources and services
AU - Mahmoud, Sara Yousif Mohamed
AU - Mohamed, Nader
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/11/30
Y1 - 2015/11/30
N2 - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant attention recently due to the constantly growing range of applications. However, developing collaborative UAV applications built using traditional technologies in tightly coupled designs requires the dedication of huge development efforts, time, and budget. The present research aims to simplify these efforts, and reduce the time and cost needed to develop applications for distributed heterogeneous UAVs. This paper proposes a UAV-Cloud platform and components for distributed UAVs through cloud computing. The UAV-Cloud platform provides a set of services and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) on top of which the applications can be built. Due to the limited capabilities of these UAVs, a lightweight architecture is adopted. UAV resources and services are modeled in a Resource Oriented Architecture. Moreover, this paper proposes a broker layer to separate the requester side from the provider side. To test the proposed architecture, a prototype was built for the UAV resources and the broker layer.
AB - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant attention recently due to the constantly growing range of applications. However, developing collaborative UAV applications built using traditional technologies in tightly coupled designs requires the dedication of huge development efforts, time, and budget. The present research aims to simplify these efforts, and reduce the time and cost needed to develop applications for distributed heterogeneous UAVs. This paper proposes a UAV-Cloud platform and components for distributed UAVs through cloud computing. The UAV-Cloud platform provides a set of services and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) on top of which the applications can be built. Due to the limited capabilities of these UAVs, a lightweight architecture is adopted. UAV resources and services are modeled in a Resource Oriented Architecture. Moreover, this paper proposes a broker layer to separate the requester side from the provider side. To test the proposed architecture, a prototype was built for the UAV resources and the broker layer.
KW - Broker
KW - Cloud computing
KW - Distributed system
KW - RESTful
KW - Resource-Oriented Architecture
KW - UAVs
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U2 - 10.1109/NCCA.2015.14
DO - 10.1109/NCCA.2015.14
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84960413826
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE 4th Symposium on Network Cloud Computing and Applications, NCCA 2015
SP - 23
EP - 30
BT - Proceedings - IEEE 4th Symposium on Network Cloud Computing and Applications, NCCA 2015
A2 - Avresky, Dimiter R.
A2 - Tutschku, Kurt
A2 - Anceaume, Emmanuelle
A2 - Maehle, Erik
A2 - Puliafito, Antonio
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 4th IEEE Symposium on Network Cloud Computing and Applications, NCCA 2015
Y2 - 11 June 2015 through 12 June 2015
ER -