Novel communication system selection applying the AHP algorithm in heterogeneous wireless networks

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel selection policy for a communication system in heterogeneous wireless networks, which applies the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) algorithm by taking into account the mobility of the user terminals. In particular, the AHP algorithm has excellent characteristics of improving overall performance within the existing wireless systems. We certify the performance improvement by applying the AHP through software simulations under the conditions where Wi-Fi and WiMAX are used in the heterogeneous wireless networks. © 2012 ICST Institute for Computer Science, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering.