Communication arrangement and method for the evaluation of at least tow multi-part communication connections between two parties to a communication in a multi-node network

Claim 1

A method for evaluating at least two multi-part communication connections in a multi-node network, comprising the steps of: determining at least two evaluation categories for evaluating a communication connection; acquiring at least one measured value that describes a connection with respect to an evaluation category for each determined evaluation category for a respective communication connection, said evaluation category of said at least two evaluation categories being at least one of performance of the respective communication connection, time behavior of the respective communication connection, and dependability of the respective communication connection; determining an evaluation criterion for the respective communication connection, an associated measured value thereof being evaluated in the form of satisfaction degrees with respect to satisfaction of the respective evaluation category and all satisfaction degrees being operated with one another such that a communication connection that has higher satisfaction degrees with respect to the at least two evaluation categories receives an optimum evaluation criterion; and measured values being processed with fuzzy logic and being treated as linguistic variables whose satisfaction degrees are identified using affiliation functions, and at least one fuzzy rule set being employed for each of the evaluation categories of said at least two evaluation categories.

Claim 2

A method for evaluating at least two multi-part communication connections in a multi-node network, comprising the steps of: determining at least two evaluation categories for evaluating a communication connection; acquiring at least one measured value that describes a connection with respect to an evaluation category for each determined evaluation category for a respective communication connection, said evaluation category of said at least two evaluation categories being at least one of performance of the respective communication connection, time behavior of the respective communication connection, and dependability of the respective communication connection; determining an evaluation criterion for the respective communication connection, an associated measured value thereof being evaluated in the form of satisfaction degrees with respect to satisfaction of the respective evaluation category and all satisfaction degrees being operated with one another such that a communication connection that has higher satisfaction degrees with respect to the at least two evaluation categories receives an optimum evaluation criterion; and measured values being processed with fuzzy logic and being treated as linguistic variables whose satisfaction degrees are identified using affiliation functions, and at least one fuzzy rule set being employed for each of the evaluation categories of said at least two evaluation categories.

Claim 7

A method for evaluating at least two multi-part communication connections in a multi-node network, comprising the steps of: determining at least two evaluation categories for evaluating a communication connection, an evaluation category of said at least two evaluation categories being at least one of performance of the communication connection, time behavior of the respective communication connection, and dependability of the communication connection; acquiring at least one measured value that respectively describes a connection with respect to an evaluation category for each determined evaluation category for a respective communication connection; processing said at least one measured value with fuzzy logic, measured values being treated as linguistic variables whose satisfaction degrees are identified using affiliation functions, and at least one fuzzy rule set being employed for each of the evaluation categories of said at least two evaluation categories; and determining an evaluation criterion for the respective communication connection, an associated measured value thereof being evaluated in the form of satisfaction degrees with respect to satisfaction of the evaluation category, and all satisfaction degrees being operated with one another such that a communication connection that has higher satisfaction degrees with respect to the at least two evaluation categories receives an optimum evaluation criterion.

Claim 8

A method for evaluating at least two multi-part communication connections in a multi-node network, comprising the steps of: determining at least two evaluation categories for evaluating a communication connection, an evaluation category of said at least two evaluation categories being at least one of performance of the communication connection, time behavior of the respective communication connection, and dependability of the communication connection; acquiring at least one measured value that respectively describes a connection with respect to an evaluation category for each determined evaluation category for a respective communication connection; processing said at least one measured value with fuzzy logic, measured values being treated as linguistic variables whose satisfaction degrees are identified using affiliation functions, and at least one fuzzy rule set being employed for each of the evaluation categories of said at least two evaluation categories; and determining an evaluation criterion for the respective communication connection, an associated measured value thereof being evaluated in the form of satisfaction degrees with respect to satisfaction of the evaluation category, and all satisfaction degrees being operated with one another such that a communication connection that has higher satisfaction degrees with respect to the at least two evaluation categories receives an optimum evaluation criterion.

Claim 14

An apparatus for evaluating at least two multi-part communication connections in a multi-node network, comprising: at least two evaluation categories for evaluating a communication connection; at least one measured value that describes a connection with respect to an evaluation category for each determined evaluation category for a communication connection, an evaluation category of said at least two evaluation categories being at least one of performance of the respective communication connection, time behavior of the respective communication connection, and dependability of the respective communication connection; an evaluator for evaluating an associated measured value in the form of satisfaction degrees with respect to satisfaction of the evaluation category, and all satisfaction degrees being operated with one another such that a communication connection that has higher satisfaction degrees with respect to the at least two evaluation categories receives an optimum evaluation criterion; processor for processing measured values with fuzzy logic, the measured values being treated as linguistic variables whose satisfaction degrees are identified using affiliation functions, and at least one fuzzy rule set being employed for each of the evaluation categories of said at least two evaluation categories.

Claim 15

An apparatus for evaluating at least two multi-part communication connections in a multi-node network, comprising: at least two evaluation categories for evaluating a communication connection; at least one measured value that describes a connection with respect to an evaluation category for each determined evaluation category for a communication connection, an evaluation category of said at least two evaluation categories being at least one of performance of the respective communication connection, time behavior of the respective communication connection, and dependability of the respective communication connection; an evaluator for evaluating an associated measured value in the form of satisfaction degrees with respect to satisfaction of the evaluation category, and all satisfaction degrees being operated with one another such that a communication connection that has higher satisfaction degrees with respect to the at least two evaluation categories receives an optimum evaluation criterion; processor for processing measured values with fuzzy logic, the measured values being treated as linguistic variables whose satisfaction degrees are identified using affiliation functions, and at least one fuzzy rule set being employed for each of the evaluation categories of said at least two evaluation categories.