Swarm Network-as-a-Service (SNaaS)
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| author | Alkouz, Balsam Amin, Osama Shihada, Basem |
| author_facet | Alkouz, Balsam Amin, Osama Shihada, Basem |
| contents | Emerging on-demand connectivity scenarios increasingly require networking solutions with stringent service-level guarantees. We propose Swarm Network-as-a-Service (SNaaS), a service-oriented framework that leverages fleets of drones to provide on-demand connectivity at scale. SNaaS explicitly models drone-to-device and drone-to-drone interactions as composable services, enabling consumers to request connectivity through Service-Level Agreements (SLAs). We formalize atomic and composite SNaaS services, present an SDN-inspired architecture that integrates the service-oriented triad of provider, consumer, and registry. We introduce a composition framework that orchestrates drones into end-to-end services. Within this framework, we define and analyze three composition strategies, i.e., direct, clustered, and parallel, and propose a queuing-theory-based heuristic for selecting the most suitable strategy under varying load conditions. A dedicated enforcement module continuously monitors queue stability and SLA latency, adaptively reconfiguring the swarm when violations occur. Experiments using real air-to-ground measurements show that the framework consistently outperforms fixed compositions, achieving lower latency, fewer SLA violations, and smoother adaptation as load and swarm size increase. |
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| spellingShingle | Swarm Network-as-a-Service (SNaaS) Alkouz, Balsam Amin, Osama Shihada, Basem Networking and Internet Architecture Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing Emerging on-demand connectivity scenarios increasingly require networking solutions with stringent service-level guarantees. We propose Swarm Network-as-a-Service (SNaaS), a service-oriented framework that leverages fleets of drones to provide on-demand connectivity at scale. SNaaS explicitly models drone-to-device and drone-to-drone interactions as composable services, enabling consumers to request connectivity through Service-Level Agreements (SLAs). We formalize atomic and composite SNaaS services, present an SDN-inspired architecture that integrates the service-oriented triad of provider, consumer, and registry. We introduce a composition framework that orchestrates drones into end-to-end services. Within this framework, we define and analyze three composition strategies, i.e., direct, clustered, and parallel, and propose a queuing-theory-based heuristic for selecting the most suitable strategy under varying load conditions. A dedicated enforcement module continuously monitors queue stability and SLA latency, adaptively reconfiguring the swarm when violations occur. Experiments using real air-to-ground measurements show that the framework consistently outperforms fixed compositions, achieving lower latency, fewer SLA violations, and smoother adaptation as load and swarm size increase. |
| title | Swarm Network-as-a-Service (SNaaS) |
| topic | Networking and Internet Architecture Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13341 |