Resource Provisioning Techniques in Multi-Access Edge Computing Environments: Outlook, Expression, and Beyond

Table 1

Abbreviations used in the paper.

Abbreviations	Description
BS	Base station
CPU	Central processing unit
CDC	Cloud data center
CSP	Cloud service provider
EERA	Energy-efficient resource allocation
ECM-RMA	Energy-efficient joint resource management and allocation
GPU	Graphics processing unit
ICT	Information and communication technology
IoT	Internet of Things
I/O	Input/output
IA	Independent authority
LA	Learning automata
LTE	Long-term evolution
MEC	Mobile edge computing
MCs	Mobile clients
MCC	Mobile cloud computing
NP-hard	Non-deterministic polynomial-time hardness
MuSIC	Mobility-aware service allocation on cloud
MAPE	Monitor-analysis-plan-execution
PRIMO	Prioritized metaheuristic virtual machine migration
RP	Resource provisioning
QoS	Quality of service
SUAC	Stochastic user allocation
SDN	Software-defined network
SLA	Service-level agreement
VM	Virtual machine
VIKOR	VIseKriterijumska optimizacija i kompromisno resen
WLAN	Wireless local area network
WORG	Weighted object relation graph
WMAN	Wireless metropolitan area network
Wi-Fi	Wireless fidelity
WiMAx	Worldwide interoperability for microwave access
5G	Fifth generation
6G	Sixth generation
V2X	Vehicle-to-everything