A Game-Based Scheme for Resource Purchasing and Pricing in MEC for Internet of Things

Table 1

Summary of key notations.

Notation	Definition
	User i
	satisfaction with renting server resources
	Longest service request completion time acceptable to
	Actual completion time of the service request
	purchases the number of resources from the server
	Cycles per bit for computing one sample data of user
	Calculated size of service request
	Price of a single server resource
	CPU frequency of an edge server’s single resource
	Service request transfer rate
	Maintenance cost of a server to a single resource
	User utility
	Edge server profit