New Multipriority and Variable Duration Triple Time Slot P-CSMA Protocol for Edge Servers Server Deployment

Table 2

Table of variables.

Symbol	Definition
	Probability distribution function of consecutive successful events in a transmission period
	Probability distribution function ofconsecutive compound events in a transmission period
	The joint probability distribution function of consecutive successful events and compound events in a transmission period
	The number of consecutive successful events in a transmission period
	The number of consecutive compound events in a transmission period
	The number of collision events in which two and more message packets arrive in a transmission period
	The number of idle events in which no message packet arrives in a transmission cycle
	The length of the channel in which the message packet is successfully sent in a transmission period
	The length of the channel in which no information packet arrives in a transmission period
	The length of the channel in which two and more information packets arrive in the channel in one transmission period
	Length of channel time delay
	Channel length for one transmission cycle
	Channel throughput rate
	Channel idle rate
	Collision rate of the channel
	Time delay rate of the channel