TPD: Temporal and Positional Computation Offloading with Dynamic and Dependent Tasks

Table 2

Notations used herein.

Notation	Definition
	Set of IoT devices
	Set of edge servers
	Task of
	Computation input data size of
	No. of CPU cycles required for
	Offloading position of
	Predecessor task set of
	Successor task set of
	Offloading moment of
	Finishing moment of
	Data upload rate from to at time
	Bandwidth of channel connected to
	Background noise
	Transmission power of IoT device
	Channel gain
	Computation capability of IoT device
	Computation capability of edge server
	Total delay of
	Offloading strategy for all tasks
	Moment at which all tasks are completed