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Table 2

From: Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Workload Scheduling for Edge Computing

i

index of a task

∂ i

input data size (in bits) of taski

β i

output data size (in bits) of taski

c i

total number of CPU cycles that isrequired to complete the taski

Ï„ i

delay constraint of taski

\(t_{{com}}^{i}\)

communication delay of taski

\(t_{{td}}^{i}\)

transmission delay of taski

\(t_{{up}}^{i}\)

upload time of taski

\(t_{{down}}^{i}\)

download time of taski

\(t_{{wait}}^{i}\)

waiting time between the uploading to local edge server and starting execution

ω wlan

bandwidth of WLAN

p n

transmission powers of mobile device

h n,s

channel gains between mobile device and edge server

N 0

noise power

f l

local edge server computing power

f nb

nearby edge server computing power

f c

cloud computing power

R man

MAN transmission rate

\(R_{{wlan}}^{}\)

WLAN transmission rate

λ1,…λm+1

scheduling decision variables

server t

states of all servers at step t

u n

VM utilization of nth server

network t

states of networks at step t

T t

total delay of current task