Patent ID: 7307961
Filing Date: 2007-12-11
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer readable medium storing computer-executable instructions for dimensioning a communications network based on determining a maximum number of users able to receive a predetermined target throughput of data over a predetermined number of communication channels in the network, the computer readable medium comprising: a blocking probability calculating code segment executable to calculate at least one blocking probability, based on a traffic distribution model, for each of an incremental number of users; a service delay calculating code segment executable to calculate a service delay, based on the at least one blocking probability, for each of the incremental number of users; an iterative throughput calculating code segment executable to calculate an iterative throughput, based on the at least one blocking probability and the service delay, corresponding to each of the incremental number of users; and a comparing code segment executable to compare each iterative throughput to the target throughput and to identify the maximum number of users as the number of users having a corresponding iterative throughput that is a largest iterative throughput less than the target throughput.