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Table 1 Description of parameters

From: Deployment and management of SDR cloud computing resources: problem definition and fundamental limits

Parameter

Description

n

Number of nodes or processors

m

Number of waveform modules or tasks

t s

Call setup delay

t s max

Call setup delay constraint

p b

Blocking probability

p b max

Blocking probability constraint

t RA

Resource allocator’s (RA’s) execution time model

F

Scaling factor of RA model

α

Nodes’ exponent (nα) of RA model

β

Modules’ exponent (mβ) of RA model

θ

Cost function’s weight

ρ

Traffic load in Erlangs

ρ max

Maximum traffic load a single RA can manage

λ

Average session initiation requests per second

1/μ

Average session duration in seconds

Φ(n)

Number of users that can be served with n

 

processors for a given waveform model