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User Preference Heterogeneous Network Selection in Less Subjective Ways

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Heterogeneous network selection is a popular topic with the rapid development of telecommunication technologies. Literatures employed different ways for solving the issue with drawbacks more or less especially neglecting the user preference and using much subjective configurations. This paper proposes a user preference scheme including realtime or non-realtime pursuit, money and battery consumption concern and non-specific requirement. For front four modes, a technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution based method with vote which reduces the subjectiveness is introduced. Then, a function-less and totally unsubjective method called directional distance function based data envelopment analysis method faces the non-specific requirement. Several examples test these two methods and the results support them.

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  1. School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Economy and Technology Development Area, Dalian, 116620, People’s Republic of China

    Yang Liu, Zhikui Chen & Tingting Li

  2. Department of Computer Science, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, B2G 2W5, Canada

    Laurence T. Yang

  3. Faculty of Management and Economics, Dalian University of Technology, Linggong Road 2, Dalian, 116023, People’s Republic of China

    Xiaoning Lv

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Liu, Y., Chen, Z., Yang, L.T. et al. User Preference Heterogeneous Network Selection in Less Subjective Ways. Wireless Pers Commun 76, 813–828 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-014-1627-0

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