edPAS: event-based dynamic Parking Allocation System in Vehicular Networks

This work proposes the edPAS system for the efficient processing and handling of dynamic parking allocation requests in vehicular networks. In edPAS, base-station and communicators collaboratively provide the effective event-based parking allocation process for vehicles. edPAS offers the best available parking-lot to vehicle, which is relevant to its event-place. Furthermore, edPAS tracks the vehicles through communicators for providing runtime changes in allotted parking-lot, if any, to the vehicles, thereby optimizing the parking-lot utilization. The main contributions of edPAS are three-fold. First, it proposes the architecture of edPAS with static and dynamic-allocation processes. Second, it proposes two parking-lot allocation schemes, FCFS and PR, using first-come-first-serve and priority algorithms respectively, for parking-queue mechanism. Third, our performance evaluation shows that our schemes are indeed effective for improving the edPAS functionality in terms of maximizing parking-lot utilization and reducing overall time at low communication cost.