Paper Info
Title
Analysis Of Traffic Offload Using Multi-Attribute Decision Making Technique In Heterogeneous Shared Networks
Abstract
Over the years, the authors have witnessed tremendous growth in mobile data traffic. To address the capacity requirements, the mobile network operators (MNOs) are adding more radio nodes and spectrum layers. The spectrum layers vary in quality of service (QoS), utilisation and usage fee. To save operational costs, the MNOs could share their radio networks. The MNOs, therefore, should consider spectrum availability, link utilisation, link usage costs, traffic handling priorities and QoS for selecting the Donor link for traffic offload. In this study, the traffic offload scenario with multiple Donor links from different MNOs is analysed. The authors define the relevant queuing parameters for Donor link selection. Two hybrid multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) techniques, namely, (a) analytical hierarchical process (AHP) with grey relational analysis (GRA) technique and (b) entropy with range of values (RoV) technique for dynamic Donor link selection in traffic offload scenario and assess their benefits were compared. The authors use IP network measurements to derive the packet service time. It is observed that both the techniques Entropy-RoV and AHP-GRA align well with the dynamism of the network, though Entropy-RoV method performed without any pre-configuration. The AHP-GRA technique requires pre-configuration of parameters and when configured suitably, it can perform as a load equalisation technique.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1049/iet-net.2018.5139
IET NETWORKS
Field
DocType
Volume
Computer science,Network packet,Grey relational analysis,Internet protocol suite,Computer network,Quality of service,Queueing theory,Cellular network,Mobile broadband,Analytic hierarchy process
Journal
8
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
2047-4954
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ramakrishnan S110.36
Subrat Kar26318.76
S. Dharmaraja317516.72