Patent Document ID: 20080019325
Application ID: 11834166
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer readable medium storing computer-executable instructions for dimensioning a communications network based on determining a number of terminals 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, for each of an incremental number of terminals; 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 terminals; 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 terminals; and a determining code segment executable to determine the number of terminals to receive the predetermined target throughput in accordance with the calculated iterative throughputs.