Privacy-Aware Online Task Offloading for Mobile-Edge Computing

Table 1

List of main parameter notations.

Notation	Definition
	The number of newly generated tasks at time slot
	Tasks to be offloaded
	Input data size of task (bits)
	Computation intensity of task (CPU cycles/bit)
	Computation demand for task (CPU cycles)
	Tasks in the buffer
	Offloading execution platforms (local, MEC, and buffer)
	Available computing capability in execution platform
	Processing delay of each task
	Total processing delay for processing all tasks
	Energy consumption of each task
	Total energy consumption
	The number of tasks offloaded to the MEC server
	Weighting factor of location privacy
	The metric of the usage pattern privacy
	The difference between and
	Privacy metric