A Real Time Parking Reservation System Based on Vehicular Cloud Computing

The increased number of vehicles in a high density population area is an issue especially when these areas are unorganized in term of vehicles parking facilities. Having good automated road management and smart parking reservation systems can help to decrease traffic congestion, fuel consumption and save the driver's time. This paper introduces the concepts of Vehicular Cloud Computing to design and implement a real time parking reservation system. The proposed system is typically built upon OMNeT++ and SUMO Simulators by integrating Bellman-Ford and Dijkstra algorithms, to get the shortest path(s) about available parking spaces in a particular geographic area. The proposed system has also taken into consideration the authentication issue to prevent unauthorized parking.