The Use of Data Envelopment Analysis in the Design of Internet Networks to Ensure the Quality of Service

Choosing a superior Internet network by users or providing a desirable Internet network by ISPs is always one of the important decision issues in this area. Choosing a unique optimal network from among the best networks is still a big challenge. The purpose of this paper is to use the data envelopment analysis (DEA) decision-making technique to evaluate the existing Internet networks in order to select the most desirable network. In this way, we first simulate a specific Internet network to ensure the quality of user service. Various models have been proposed to ensure the quality of service, including the distinctive service network provided by the IETF. In the distinctive service architecture, no access control mechanism is considered. To ensure service quality, a distinct service network must support an access control mechanism. In order to access the control mechanism to give the best results, the network parameters must be considered in such a way as to minimize the amount of loss and latency while increasing the network efficiency. Then, presenting a new common weight model in DEA, we select the most desirable network, and finally, using the presented model, evaluate and rank 33 simulated Internet networks, and the output of the evaluation is the ranking of these 33 Internet networks that select networks with high rankings as the most desirable network.