Provided is a multi-hop wireless mobile communication system where a plurality of nodes exist. To select a serving node to be provided with a service, a Mobile Station (MS) receives relay information provided for serving node selection from at least two nodes and selects a first mode of selecting a node that requires the minimum time for unit data transmission/reception as the serving node or a second mode of selecting a node that can transmit and receive the maximum data per unit time as the serving node, based on the received relay information, in order to select the serving node.