Multi-criteria ranking of voice transmission carriers of a telecommunication company using PROMETHEE

Beatrice Boatemaa,Kwaku F Darkwah,Justice K Appati

doi:10.1186/s40535-018-0056-7

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s40535-018-0056-7

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Abstract

This paper ranks the voice transmission carriers as used by mobile telecommunication companies. The versatility of the PROMETHEE method made it a useful tool for this ranking process. However, in our approach, the logistic preference function which is a recently proposed preference function was adopted in the ranking procedure as opposed to the Gaussian preference function. The results obtained by the logistic preference function yield a similar effect as that of the Gaussian preference function with both reaching an optimal ranking at the complete ranking stage.

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Telecommunication carrier is by definition companies that are authorized by a regulatory agency to operate a telecommunications system
Route availability should not be less than 100%, it is a maximizing criterion 2 Busy hour traffic (C 2 ): In a day, the 60 min interval in which the traffic is highest is called busy hour (BH)
There was situation of incomparability illustrated by no linkages between the carrier alternatives A4, A5 and A6 in the partial raking step of the PROMETHEE method; the alternatives could not be ranked

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Telecommunication carrier is by definition companies that are authorized by a regulatory agency to operate a telecommunications system. In the work of Ching-Ter et al (2011), the problem of routing management still stands to confuse many telecommunication-related companies among which are: equipment manufacturers, platform vendors, service operators, and billing system. Through their study, they observed that routing control is dependent on equipment and on the operational flow of the company. A clear guide is instituted for the engineering staff on path deploying for the period (or billing cycle) to come while achieving multiple pre-defined goals automatically In this instance, decision-making which is the science of recognizing and determining choices based on the values and partialities of the decision maker becomes necessary (Diaz et al 2015; Caron and Daniels 2013; Anderson and Mansingh 2014). Making a choice implies that there are alternatives to be considered, and in such a case we do distinguish as many of these choices and take the one that best fits

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