A Game-Theoretic Drone-as-a-Service Composition for Delivery

We propose a novel game-theoretic approach for drone service composition considering recharging constraints. We design a non-cooperative game model for drone services. We propose a non-cooperative game algorithm for the selection and composition of optimal drone services. We conduct several experiments on a real drone dataset to demonstrate the efficiency of our proposed approach.

I. Introduction

A drone is an aircraft that can fly with no pilot onboard. Drones offer a myriad of new potential applications in several domains including agriculture, geographic mapping, healthcare, shipping, and shopping [1]. Drones provide a variety of services such as inspection, sensing, and delivery [2]. Amazon and other large corporations are making efforts to commercially use drones for delivery. Drones provide faster and cost-effective delivery services [3]. Delivery drones differ from ground vehicles which are constrained by road infrastructure and traffic congestion.