RANKING COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AVAILABLE TO MULTI-MODE MOBILE DEVICE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide systems and methodologies that facilitate optimum technology selection within multi-modal configurations.SOLUTION: A multi-mode mobile device can select and/or utilize a particular technology, system and/or configuration to provide optimal quality of service (QOS) in terms of various characteristics. For instance, an optimum technology can be selected and employed for a service request on the basis of performance, cost, power consumption, interference levels, and the like. The multi-mode mobile device can obtain characteristics of a plurality of technologies during idle states. The characteristics can be analyzed in order to generate a QOS table that provides relative rankings of the plurality of technologies in terms of the service request type and the obtained characteristics. The QOS table can be utilized to select an optimum technology upon initiation of a service request.