Qualitative policies for bandwidth priorities in ad-hoc networks

Abstract

The Analytic Hierarchic Process (AHP) is used for presenting a method for setting up policies that define priorities among services sharing a limited measure of bandwidth in an ad-hoc radio network. We examine the issue of ensuring the autonomy of the users of the bandwidth, as well as the issue of ensuring that the priority policies result in efficient bandwidth usage even when the priority decisions involve uncertainty about the dynamics of the network and the services.