CLOUD COMPUTING ON WINGS: APPLICATIONS TO AIR QUALITY

摘要

We extend the concept of cloud computing developed in the cyber-world to sensors mounted on aircraft, creating a new paradigm called the Cloud on Wings. Under the proposed framework, a server hosted on an airplane is allowed to move in space and perform sensing and actuation. The analog of cloud computing's virtual machine, in the Cloud on Wings, is the "virtual vehicle". Virtual vehicles are hosted by real vehicles, such as commercial flights or unmanned air vehicles. We explore air air quality monitoring as a service enabled by the Cloud on Wings. We describe a low cost, low liability measurement aircraft built and tested by us for measurement in close proximity to people, our server design and implementation for the Cloud on Wings, and algorithms to operate the cloud efficiently.