Selecting the best communication service in future network architectures

As the number of future network architectural approaches increases, the possibility of offering many similar services with different qualities of service is increasing. Therefore, it will be required to select a suitable, or the best, service from the set of alternative services. This paper proposes a matching process and an adapted analytic hierarchy process to accomplish this task. The matching process is used to determine if a service is suitable. When more than one suitable service is available, the adapted analytic hierarchy process is used to select the best service.