An Efficient Forwarding Capability Evaluation Method for Opportunistic Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing

Table 1

Symbols and their definitions.

The symbols	The definitions
	the probability that contacts within
	the probability that directly contacts within t
	the probability that through a relay device contacts within t
	The probability of a transient cluster existing duration
	’s probability of contacting before
	The probability of contacting when
	The probability of contacting when
	the probability that only indirectly contacts within t
	The probability of indirectly contacting when
	The probability of indirectly contacting when
	’s probability of only indirectly contacting before