Research Article

Energy- and Resource-Aware Computation Offloading for Complex Tasks in Edge Environment

Table 1

Key terms and descriptions.

ParameterMeaning
LQueue length
FThe number of WAs
BBandwidth of communication link
EComputing ability of the terminal
NThe number of subtasks in each WA
MThe number of the virtual machines in cloudlet
IThe label of the cloudlet
The number of tasks executed by the I-th cloudlet
Situation set of offloading strategy
The collection of successor tasks
The collection of precursor tasks
Bandwidth of transmission under same system
Bandwidth of transmission under different system