Efficient Delay-Aware Task Scheduling for IoT Devices in Mobile Cloud Computing

Table 1

Notions and definitions.

Notation	Definition
	The set of tasks
	The set of virtual machines
	The total timeout for all tasks
	The queue
	The length of the queue of pending tasks
	The time when the -th task was generated
	The maximum response time of the -th task
	The type of the -th task
	The time when the -th task started to be processed
	The amount of timeout for the -th task
	The number of idle threads of the -th virtual machine
	The maximum number of tasks that can be computed
	At time
rowhead	Choose the number of tasks that can be computed at time t
rowhead	The length of the queue of pending tasks at time .
rowhead	The time that the -th virtual machine needs to process
	The -th type of task
rowhead	The next idle moment of the -th thread in the -th
	Virtual machine