DewDrone: Dew Computing for Internet of Drone Things

Abstract

Unstable internet connectivity in aerial interconnection is challenging for the Internet of drone Things. Introducing the low power edge device and caching methodology opens a new challenge to developing an independent computing and communication application for smart cities, the rural sector, industry, and society 4.0. This author proposes a dew-cloud computing framework amalgamated with the UAV networks known as “DewDrone.” We engineered an opportunistic communication framework for unreliable and intermittent network connectivity. We analyzed the dew message transfer response, and caching performance has been measured in a resource constrain hardware testbed. The results show the 91.4% message delivery ratio within a dew buffer size of 150 MB with a minimum latency of 20.04 ms.