Table 2 Parameters used in evaluations.

From: Fault-tolerant and mobility-aware loading via Markov chain in mobile cloud computing

Genetic algorithm input parameters

The number of iterations of the genetic algorithm

50–500

The number of repetitions

10–100

Input parameters of the proposed method

Bandwidth

\(\:{10}^{3}\:-{10}^{5}\)(bytes per second)

Input data

\(\:{10}^{3}\:-{10}^{6}\)(KB)

Number of application commands

\(\:{10}^{2}\:-{10}^{7}\)(million orders)

The speed of the central processing unit of the server

\(\:{10}^{6}\)(million commands per second)

The speed of the central processing unit of the device

\(\:{10}^{4}\)(million commands per second)

Stop time

100–1000 (seconds)

Definite probability

0-100

Energy consumption rate when sending and receiving data

0.7 (MW/s)

Energy consumption rate assuming local implementation

0.4 (MW/s)

Time to return from outage

0.5–10 (seconds)

The number of repetitions of experiments

1000

Confidence interval

95%