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In the context of location privacy, many schemes have been deployed to mitigate the adversary\u2019s exploiting abilities. The most appealing schemes are those using the silent period feature, since they provide an acceptable level of privacy. Unfortunately, the cost of silent periods in most schemes is the trade-off between privacy and safety, as these schemes do not consider the timing of silent periods from the perspective of safety. In this paper, and by exploiting the nature of public transport and role vehicles (overseers), we propose a novel location privacy scheme, called OVR, that uses the silent period feature by letting the overseers ensure safety and allowing other vehicles to enter into silence mode, thus enhancing their location privacy. This scheme is inspired by the well-known war strategy \u201cGive up a Pawn to Save a Chariot\u201d. Additionally, the scheme does support road congestion estimation in real time by enabling the estimation locally on their On-Board Units that act as mobile edge servers and deliver these data to a static edge server that is implemented at the cell tower or road-side unit level, which boosts the connectivity and reduces network latencies. When OVR is compared with other schemes in urban and highway models, the overall results show its beneficial use.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s23010531","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,4]],"date-time":"2023-01-04T03:27:44Z","timestamp":1672802864000},"page":"531","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":21,"title":["A Safety-Aware Location Privacy-Preserving IoV Scheme with Road Congestion-Estimation in Mobile Edge Computing"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9508-7134","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Messaoud","family":"Babaghayou","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"LIM Lab., Amar Telidji University, Laghouat 03000, Algeria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2330-028X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Noureddine","family":"Chaib","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"LIM Lab., Amar Telidji University, Laghouat 03000, Algeria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1414-3649","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nasreddine","family":"Lagraa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"LIM Lab., Amar Telidji University, Laghouat 03000, Algeria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0632-3172","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mohamed Amine","family":"Ferrag","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Technology Innovation Institute, Masdar City 9639, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5360-9782","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Leandros","family":"Maglaras","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Blockpass ID Lab., Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh EH10 5DT, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"1633","article-title":"Personalized location privacy protection for location-based services in vehicular networks","volume":"9","author":"Xu","year":"2020","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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