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Table 3 Description of notations

From: Task offloading exploiting grey wolf optimization in collaborative edge computing

Notation

Description

\(\mathbb {U}\)

Set of mobile devices in the system

\(\tau , \; \mathbb {E}\)

Set of tasks and set of servers, respectively

\(c_{i}\)

Required CPU-cycle to complete task \(i \in \tau\)

\(\mu ^{k}_{i}\)

% of CPU-cycles allocated to task \(i\in \tau\) by MD \(k \in \mathbb {U}\)

\(\lambda _{ij}\)

% of CPU-cycles allocated to task \(i\in \tau\) by server \(j \in \mathbb {E}\)

\(B_{ij}\)

Radio bandwidth allocated to task i by server j

\(p^{k}\)

Transmission power of MD \(k \in \mathbb {U}\)

\(f^{k}\)

CPU-cycle frequency of MD \(k \in \mathbb {U}\)

\(f^{j}\)

CPU-cycle frequency of server \(j \in \mathbb {E}\)

\(b_i\)

Size of input data of task \(i \in \tau\)

\(\mathcal {B}_i\)

Size of the data code related to task \(i\in \tau\)

\(\sigma _{i,j}\)

Cached resource availability for task i at server j

\(\gamma _{j}\)

Per unit CPU-cycle cost of server \(j \in \mathbb {E}\)

\(\eta _{j}\)

Per unit storage cost of server \(j \in \mathbb {E}\)

\(\chi ^w\)

Position vector of wolf \(w \in P\)

\(x^w_d\)

Position of wolf \(w \in P\) at \(d^{th}\) dimension