Traffic Analysis

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(Busiest hour)

Traffic Analysis
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(T) Traffic intensity (A)

Traffic volume
A = Traffic volume/ T

Erlang A = tm

calls per second

tm seconds per call

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A = Traffic Volume/T
=(5+12+17+3+1)/20=38/20
=1.9 Erlangs

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Traffic
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Incoming Traffic
Traffic

Outgoing Traffic
Traffic

Intra office Traffic

Traffic

( Block )
( Loss call) Busy Tone
Blocking B = Lost call / call

Erlang B formula
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Traffic
Blocking
Erlang Blocking formula
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B=

A
n! A
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i= 0

A traffic n

M/M/m/m The m-Server loss system

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M= Calls arrive according to a Poison process with rate

M= The probability distribution of the service time is
exponential with average duration of a telephone
conversation tm=1/
m= number of circuits
m=limit on number of customers in the system
(Blocked calls are lost)

State transition diagram

B A

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Blocking 1% Traffic

1 2 3 Traffic

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Incoming Traffic 40 %
Outgoing Traffic 40%
Intra office Traffic 20%

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A = tm

= 3/60 calls/min
tm = 3 min/call
A = 3*3/60 = 0.15 Erlang/1
1000 Traffic = 150 Erlangs
Incoming Traffic 40 % =150*0.4=60 Erlangs
Outgoing Traffic 40% = 60 Erlangs
Intra office Traffic 20% = 30 Erlangs

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Incoming Trunk 75
Outgoing Trunk

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Intra office Trunk
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Subscriber concentrator
output 117

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% blocking 0.5%
holding time tm 4 mins/call

Traffic
(over load) Blocking

over load Blocking

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Blocking 5%
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88 Concentrator 1
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Traffic 50 % 13.2 Erlangs
% Blocking 20 %

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Traffic 50 % 3.3 Erlangs % Blocking

14 % Over load
Blocking