  The Internet of Drones (IoD) is a layered network control architecture
designed mainly for coordinating the access of unmanned aerial vehicles to
controlled airspace, and providing navigation services between locations
referred to as nodes. The IoD provides generic services for various drone
applications such as package delivery, traffic surveillance, search and rescue
and more. In this paper, we present a conceptual model of how such an
architecture can be organized and we specify the features that an IoD system
based on our architecture should implement. For doing so, we extract key
concepts from three existing large scale networks, namely the air traffic
control network, the cellular network, and the Internet and explore their
connections to our novel architecture for drone traffic management.
