| Pn | total power consumption due to data processing; |
| total power consumption due to networking; | |
| Xkn | task k processing workload, in MIPS, assigned to processing node n; |
| δkn | binary variable, δkn = 1 if task k is assigned to processing node n, 0 otherwise; |
| Lksd | traffic flow of task k sent from source node s to processing node d; |
| traffic flow of task k sent from source node s to destination (processing node) d through physical link i and j. |