Research Article

Joint Task Offloading and Resource Allocation in Vehicular Edge Computing Networks for Emergency Logistics

Table 1

Notation explanation.

NotationDescription

XSet of IA
SSet of sensing information
EThe number of IA
EUThe number of IA used in the computational process
NThe number of sensing information needed to deal with
QSet of the data size of sensing information
RISet of the reduction index of the computational task in each step. RI (i, j) means how many times the reduction of S(i) is at the j-th step. For example, at the data preprocessing step the data size of S(i) is Q(i) RI(i, 1)
CISet of the computational complexity index for each step of the computing task. CI (i, j) means the computational complexity of the S(i) at the j-th step
SCSet of sending capabilities of each IA
SCRSet of the proportion of sending capacity assigned by IA to sensing information. SCR (i, e, j) means that the IA X(e) assigns SCR (i, e, j) of the sending capacity to S(i) at the j-th step
RCSet of receiving capabilities of each IA
RCRSet of the proportion of receiving capacity assigned by IA to sensing information. RCR (i, e, j) means that the IA X(e) assigns RCR (i, e, j) of the receiving capacity to S(i) at the j-th step
CCSet of computing capabilities of each IA
CCRSet of the proportion of computing capacity assigned by IA to sensing information. CCR (i, e, j) means that the information agent X(e) assigns CCR (i, e, j) of the computing capacity to S(i) at the j-th step
TTSet of the time consumed for transmitting. TT (i, j) means the time consumed by S(i) to transmit in the j-th step
TCSet of the time consumed for computing. TC(i, j) means the time consumed by S(i) to compute in the j-th step
TSSet of the time consumed in each step. TS (j) means the time consumed in the j-th step