Double Auction-Based Two-Level Resource Allocation Mechanism for Computation Offloading in Mobile Blockchain Application

Table 1

Notation.

Notation	Description
N	Number of C-ESPs
M	Number of C-ESPs
	Valuation of user
	Types of VM instances
	Demand of user for the instance
	Quantity of the instance C-ESP provides
	Price of instance determined by C-ESP
	Basic cost for C-ESP
	Weight of instance
	Relationship matrix of users and C-ESPs
	Number of kth instances from cloud level
	Utility of user
	Utility of C-ESP
	The extra cost of C-ESP
	Offering by C-ESP for allocated instances
	Payment of user
	Payment of C-ESP
	Weight of VM instance for level