CrowdBox: Crowdsourced Network-in-Box Recruitment for Edge Computing-Enabled Industrial Internet of Things

Table 1

Major notations employed in this paper.

Notation	Explanation
	Reward of the E-IIoT system
	Optimal reward value
	Feasible reward values
	Crowdsourcing NIB node set
	NIB nodes except
	Utility function of NIB node
	Utility function of the E-IIoT system
	Number of crowdsourcing NIB nodes
	Strategy profile of all users
	Strategy profile of all users except NIB node
	Participation level (strategy) of NIB node
	Unit cost of NIB node
	Unit cost level set
	Number of unit cost levels
	th unit cost level
	Expected participation time duration set
	Expected participation time duration for
	Set of the NIB node number at different unit cost levels
	Number of NIB nodes at the same unit cost level