A Composite Weight Based Access Network Selection Algorithm in Marine Internet

The 21st century is the ocean century, and ocean informatization is one of the key requirements. Marine Internet (MI) is the basic infrastructure of ocean informatization, so developing the MI technology is of great significance. There are several access networks maybe available in a MI system, and a network user has to choose the best one to support the application. The selection scheme needs to consider may factors in order to make a smart decision, which is a multi-index decision problem. These factors include user preferences, business types, and the performance as well as cost of alternative access networks. Combining with the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) algorithm and entropy theory, we develop a method for the user to select access networks in a smart way. It adopts subjective and objective weights and a utility function to select the target access network. The simulation results carried out on the Exata platform show that the proposed scheme can improve the network performance with reduced cost.