PACAM: A Pairwise-Allocated Strategy and Capability Average Matrix-Based Task Scheduling Approach for Edge Computing

Table 1

Symbols and description.

Annotation	Description
= {}	A scheduling horizon of services
or	The day or night tasks of the service
or	The workload of the day task or the night task
= {}	A set of devices
= {}	The capabilities set of devices
,	The hard constraints
	The soft constraint
/	The total capabilities of devices assigned to the day task or the night task
	The total number of capabilities of available devices
	The maximal number of consecutive services
	The set of devices that can be assigned to tasks
()	The previous tasks of
	The estimated number of devices for the day/night task of
	The total quantity of capabilities that can be assigned to tasks of
	The device combinations for the day and night tasks of