Network selection mechanism by using M-AHP/GRA for heterogeneous networks

Author

Lahby, M. ; Adib, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., LIM Lab., Mohammedia, Morocco

fYear

2013

fDate

23-25 April 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The most challenging issue in heterogeneous radio access technologies (HRATs) is providing ubiquitous communication and enabling the users to use the best available network anywhere at anytime. To cope with this issue, network selection decision is intended to select the optimal available network in terms of quality of service (QoS) for mobile users. In this paper we propose network selection mechanism based on two multi attribute decision making (MADM) methods namely multiple analytic hierarchy process (M-AHP) and grey relational analysis (GRA) method. The M-AHP is used to weigh each criterion and GRA is used to rank the alternatives. Simulation results are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of our new mechanism for network selection.

Keywords

analytic hierarchy process; decision making; grey systems; quality of service; radio access networks; HRAT; M-AHP-GRA method; MADM methods; QoS; grey relational analysis method; heterogeneous networks; heterogeneous radio access technology; multiattribute decision making method; multiple analytic hierarchy process; network selection decision mechanism; quality of service; ubiquitous communication; Analytic hierarchy process; Analytical models; Handover; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Quality of service; GRA; Heterogeneous Networks; M-AHP; Multi Attribute Decision Making; Network Selection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC), 2013 6th Joint IFIP

Conference_Location

Dubai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5615-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-5614-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WMNC.2013.6549009

Filename

6549009