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Table 1 Summary of notations

From: Joint computation offloading and resource allocation strategy for D2D-assisted and NOMA-empowered MEC systems

Notation

Definition

M

Number of RUs

N

Number of BSs

J

Number of PUs

T\(_m\)

The task of RU\(_m\)

\(\xi _m\)

Data size of T\(_m\)

\(\eta _m\)

CPU cycles required to process T\(_m\)

\(D^{\max }_m\)

Maximum tolerable latency to execute T\(_m\)

K

Total number of sub-channels

\(W_0\)

Bandwidth of each sub-channel

\(W_n^{\mathrm{max}}\)

Number of RUs accessing the BS\(_n\)

\({R_{m,j}^{\mathrm{d}}}\)

The achievable data rate of the link between the RU\(_m\) and the PU\(_j\)

\(h_{m,j,k}^{\mathrm{d}}\)

The channel gain of the link between the RU\(_m\) and the PU\(_j\) at the k-th sub-channel

\(\mathrm{Dist}\)

Distance of D2D transmission

\(P_{m}\)

Transmission power of RU\(_m\)

\(\tau _{m}\)

Maximum tolerable delay

\(\sigma ^{2}\)

Noise power

\({f_m^{\mathrm{0}}}\)

Computational capability of RU\(_m\)

\({f_n^{\mathrm{m}}}\)

MEC server computational capability

\({f_j^{\mathrm{d}}}\)

Computational capability of PU\(_j\)