Research Article

Joint Optimization of Resources in Fog-Radio Access Network with Binary Computation Offloading

Table 1

The meaning of symbols in Section 2.

SymbolDefinition

The number of UEs
The number of tasks generated for each UE
The number of F-APs
The data size of UE ’s -th task
The size of the offloading data for UE ’s -th task
The size of the required computation for UE ’s -th task
The wireless channel gain between the -th F-AP and -th UE at time
The linear distance from the -th F-AP to -th UE at time
The band utilization between the -th F-AP and -th UE at time
The proportion of channel resources allocated to the -th UE at time
The antenna gain
The carrier frequency
The path loss index
The transmit power of device
Power of the white Gaussian noise
The energy consumption to upload 1 of data
The amount of energy consumed by the CPU per cycle
The time cost of uploading the relevant information
The transmission time of tasks during offloading
The backhaul delay of the result
The total transmission delay for UE ’s -th task
The transmission delay of UE ’s -th uploading task
The time consumption of UE ’s -th task in local side
The time consumption of UE ’s -th task in fog side
The time consumption of UE ’s -th task in cloud side
The energy consumption of UE ’s -th uploading task
The energy consumption of UE ’s -th task in local side
The energy consumption of UE ’s -th task in fog side
The energy consumption of UE ’s -th task in cloud side
Offloading decision of UE ’s -th task in local side
Offloading decision of UE ’s -th task in fog side
Offloading decision of UE ’s -th task in cloud side
The computational capacity of UE
The computation resources managed by the edge router
The total upload channel resources
The computation resources of the -th F-AP
The proportion of fog computation resources allocated to the -th UE at time
The propagation delay to the cloud server
The weighted sum cost function
The time consumption of computing all tasks
The energy consumption of computing all tasks
The focus ratio of delay to energy