Patent Document ID: 20040068556
Application ID: 10253633
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer readable medium storing a computer program 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 program comprising: a blocking probability calculating source code segment that calculates at least one blocking probability, based on a traffic distribution model, for each of an incremental number of users; a service delay calculating source code segment that calculates a service delay, based on the at least one blocking probability, for each of the incremental number of users; an iterative throughput calculating source code segment that calculates 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 source code segment that compares each iterative throughput to the target throughput and identifies 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.