A method and a system for selecting and deploying one of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and microservices or Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) comprise selecting a preliminary number of UAVs, microservices or FaaS for deployment by defining possible outcomes for criteria having predefined constraints and associated priority weights, computing a penalty factor score (SPF) based on whether or not each possible outcome violates the constraints, computing a compactness factor score (SCF) based on how close or far the possible outcomes are from an average score of all values falling under a same type of criteria, ranking the possible outcomes using SPF and SCF, and selecting the preliminary number based on the ranking. Positions of the preliminary number of UAVs within the area of interest are determined to maximize coverage and minimize overlap. A placement of the preliminary number of microservices or FaaS is determined to minimized a targeted deployment cost.

A method and a system for selecting and deploying one of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and microservices or Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) comprise selecting a preliminary number of UAVs, microservices or FaaS for deployment by defining possible outcomes for criteria having predefined constraints and associated priority weights, computing a penalty factor score (SPF) based on whether or not each possible outcome violates the constraints, computing a compactness factor score (SCF) based on how close or far the possible outcomes are from an average score of all values falling under a same type of criteria, ranking the possible outcomes using SPF and SCF, and selecting the preliminary number based on the ranking. Positions of the preliminary number of UAVs within the area of interest are determined to maximize coverage and minimize overlap. A placement of the preliminary number of microservices or FaaS is determined to minimized a targeted deployment cost.

A method, a control unit, a communication system, and a vehicle for providing a data connection between a sender on an aircraft, and at least one receiver, via terrestrial transceiving module of the aircraft primarily configured to communicate with a terrestrial station and/or via non-terrestrial transceiving module of the aircraft primarily configured to communicate with at least one a non-terrestrial station, the method comprising monitoring a connection parameter of the data connection and/or an orientation parameter of the aircraft with respect to the at least one terrestrial station and/or to the at least one non-terrestrial station; comparing the connection parameter to a connection threshold value and/or the orientation parameter to an orientation threshold value. The data connection provided depends on when the comparison indicates regular conditions and when the comparison indicates irregular conditions.

A method, a control unit, a communication system, and a vehicle for providing a data connection between a sender on an aircraft, and at least one receiver, via terrestrial transceiving module of the aircraft primarily configured to communicate with a terrestrial station and/or via non-terrestrial transceiving module of the aircraft primarily configured to communicate with at least one a non-terrestrial station, the method comprising monitoring a connection parameter of the data connection and/or an orientation parameter of the aircraft with respect to the at least one terrestrial station and/or to the at least one non-terrestrial station; comparing the connection parameter to a connection threshold value and/or the orientation parameter to an orientation threshold value. The data connection provided depends on when the comparison indicates regular conditions and when the comparison indicates irregular conditions.