A2C	Advantage actor–critic
ABC	Artificial Bee Colony
ADMM	Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers
AI	Artificial Intelligence
ALR	Adaptive Line Rate
AMO	Ant Mating Optimization
AP	Access Point
BB	Branch and Bound
BS	Base Station
CDN	Content Delivery Network
CMOS	Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
CS	Contract-based under Symmetric information
CPU	Central Processing Unit
D2D	Device-to-Device
DAG	Directed Acyclic Graph
DC	Data Center
DDS	Deep Dynamic Scheduling
DDPG	Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient
DL	DownLink
DVFS	Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling
EH	Energy Harvesting
EON	Elastic Optical Network
FFBD	Feasibility Finding Benders Decomposition
FI	Fog Instance
FLOP	Floating Point Operation
FLOPS	Floating Point Operations per Second
FN	Fog Node
GA	Genetic Algorithm
GPU	Graphics Processing Unit
HGSA	Hybrid Genetic Simulated Annealing
ICT	Information and Communication Technology
IRS	Intelligent Reflective Surface
IoT	Internet of Things
IP	Internet Protocol
ISP	Internet Service Provider
KKT	Karush–Kuhn–Tucker
LNA	Low Noise Amplifier
LO	Local Oscillator
LP	Linear Programming
LTE	Long Term Evolution
LWS	Lone Wolf Search
MCC	Mobile Cloud Computing
MD	Mobile Device
MDP	Markov Decision Process
MEC	Mobile/Multi-Access Edge Computing
MILP	Mixed-Integer Linear Programming
MIMO	Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output
MINLP	Mixed-Integer Non-Linear Programming
ML	Machine Learning
MPA	Marine Predators Algorithm
N/A	Not Applicable
NEP	Nash Equilibrium Problem
NIC	Network Interface Card
NFV	Network Function Virtualization
NOMA	Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access
NSGAII	Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II
NTV	Near-Threshold Technology
OFDMA	Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access
PA	Power Amplifier
PDS	Post-Decision State
PGN	Portable Game Notation
PON	Passive Optical Network
PSO	Particle Swarm Optimization
QoS	Quality of Service
RF	Radio Frequency
RL	Reinforcement Learning
ROI	Return on Investment
RRH	Remote Radio Head
SCA	Successive Convex Approximation
SCS	Splitting Conic Solver
SDN	Software Defined Network
SDR	SemiDefinite Relaxation
SID	Solution IDentifier
SoC	System-on-Chip
SPEA-II	Strength Pareto Evolutionary Algorithm II
TDMA	Time Division Multiple Access
UAV	Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
UCB	Upper Confidence Bound
UL	UpLink
VC	Virtual Cluster
VM	Virtual Machine
WDM	Wavelength Division Multiplexing