An NFV-Based Energy Scheduling Algorithm for a 5G Enabled Fleet of Programmable Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Table 4

Information of drones, services, and combinations.

(a) Information about battery lifetime of drones for services and

1	4	4
2	3	3
3	3	3
4	1	1

(b) Information of pairs of drones and services and drone lifetime per time slot

1	1	1	1 1 1 1
2	1	2	1 1 1 1
3	2	1	2 2 2 0
4	2	2	2 2 2 0
5	3	1	3 3 3 0
6	3	2	3 3 3 0
7	4	1	4 0 0 0
8	4	2	4 0 0 0
		Time Slot	1 2 3 4

(c) Combinations among available drones to run the services

1	1, 4	1, 2	1, 2
2	1, 6	1, 3	1, 2
3	1, 8	1, 4	1, 2
4	2, 3	1, 2	2, 1
5	2, 5	1, 3	2, 1
6	2, 7	1, 4	2, 1
7	3, 6	2, 3	1, 2
8	3, 8	2, 4	1, 2
9	4, 5	2, 3	2, 1
10	4, 7	2, 4	2, 1
11	5, 8	3, 4	1, 2
12	6, 7	3, 4	2, 1