Abstract: Since the different characteristics of various network services determine that their requirements for network are also disparate, the performance of one network varies according to the services running on it. However, most of previous network performance evaluation (NPE) researches conduct evaluations based on the network parameters, but without considering from the perspective of specific service running on the network. In view of this issue, a novel service-oriented NPE framework is proposed. First, the characteristics discrepancy among different types of services are investigated. Next, in order to conduct comprehensive evaluation of multiple services, an enhanced low-complexity adaptive (LA)-fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP) is introduced; meanwhile by applying the experts-construct-directly (ECD) algorithm proposed later, the consistency check required in previous studies can be omitted, thereby significantly reducing the computation complexity and assessment workload for experts. Then, in accordance with the features of each service, corrections are made to their respective membership functions, thus making the proposed LA-FAHP adaptive to various service evaluation scenarios. The subsequent comparison with other NPE methods well proves the effectiveness and high sensitivity of proposed framework, and the analysis verifies the low computation complexity of the proposed algorithms as well.

Key words: network performance evaluation, low-complexity adaptive- fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (LA- FAHP), service-oriented