Abstract
Position-based services (PBSs) that deliver networked amenities based on roaming user's positions have become progressively popular with the propagation of smart mobile devices. Position is one of the important circumstances in PBSs. For effective PBSs, extraction and recognition of meaningful positions and estimating the subsequent position are fundamental procedures. Several researchers and practitioners have tried to recognize and predict positions using various techniques; however, only few deliberate the progress of position-based real-time applications considering significant tasks of PBSs. In this paper, a method for conserving position confidentiality of roaming PBSs users using machine learning techniques is proposed. We recommend a three-phase procedure for roaming PBS users. It identifies user position by merging decision trees and k-nearest neighbor and estimates user destination along with the position track sequence using hidden Markov models. Moreover, a mobile edge computing service policy is followed in the proposed paradigm, which will ensure the timely delivery of PBSs. The benefits of mobile edge service policy offer position confidentiality and low latency by means of networking and computing services at the vicinity of roaming users. Thorough experiments are conducted, and it is confirmed that the proposed method achieved above 90% of the position confidentiality in PBSs.