Title : 
SPARK: A New VANET-Based Smart Parking Scheme for Large Parking Lots
         
        
            Author : 
Lu, Rongxing ; Lin, Xiaodong ; Zhu, Haojin ; Shen, Xuemin Sherman
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Searching for a vacant parking space in a congested area or a large parking lot and preventing auto theft are major concerns to our daily lives. In this paper, we propose a new smart parking scheme for large parking lots through vehicular communication. The proposed scheme can provide the drivers with real-time parking navigation service, intelligent anti-theft protection, and friendly parking information dissemination. Performance analysis via extensive simulations demonstrates its efficiency and practicality.
         
        
            Keywords : 
traffic control; traffic engineering computing; SPARK; Smart Parking; VANET; intelligent anti-theft protection; parking information dissemination; vehicular communications; Ad hoc networks; Communications Society; Communications technology; Information technology; Navigation; Performance analysis; Protection; Space technology; Sparks; Vehicles;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
INFOCOM 2009, IEEE
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Rio de Janeiro
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-3512-8
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
0743-166X
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/INFCOM.2009.5062057