VANET-based Secure Information Exchange for Smart Charging

Abstract

Smart inventions have led to smart grids, which have paved the way to smart charging means. This smart charging information about a vehicle needs to be properly maintained in order to use it to exchange information between charging stations and electric vehicles. In this work, we have introduced an efficient methodology for managing and disseminating energy from the charging station to the smart vehicle in an urban area where the number of electric vehicles is high. We have designed and implemented a novel concept involving mobile edge computing in VANET. Moreover, we have also used an effective mechanism for communicating the information on charging with the moving electric vehicles and servers. A local relay scheme is used for reducing redundant overheads, increase delivery efficiency of charging information. This scheme is implemented with delay wait model as the base. The output is recorded by means of simulation environment and based on the observations the proposed work is found to be optimal in maintaining, accessing and disseminating the charging information.