Intheenvironmentofheterogeneouswirelessnetworks,itisvitaltoselectacurrentlyoptimalnetworkforapplicationsandsubscribers.Theuseofmultipleattributedecisionmaking(MADM)forheterogeneousnetworkselectioncanprovidesubscriberswithsatisfactoryservicequality.ConvertingheterogeneousnetworkselectionintoaMADMproblem,theauthorspresentanimprovedalgorithmforMADMbasedongroupdecisiontheory.Thealgorithmcombinesweightvectorsofmultipleattributedecisionmakingtoobtainacombinationalweightvector.Thentheresults’compatibilitywillbeassessed.Iftheydonotmeettherequirementsofcompatibility,thejudgmentmatrixwillbemodifieduntilacomprehensivevectorthatsatisfiescompatibilityrequirementsisproduced.Thevectoriscombinedwithsimpleweightingmethod(SAW)fornetworkselection.Simulationshowsthatthealgorithmcanprovideuserswithsatisfactoryqualityofservice(QoS).
