Erlang?

[Bob Bruhns]

Hi Alex,

I saw Erlang analysis used in the paging industry, to quantify the
probability of congestion.  In paging, congestion is deadly because
if the system is clogged and pages are delayed in a que, users will
start resending en-masse, and the system will REALLY choke.  I saw a
12% increase in system capacity result in the elimination of 20
minute (!) paging delays on Friday evenings.

It was very confusing to do any kind of system test in those
conditions, if you did not realize what was happening.  One Friday
evening I was trying to get the TDD system working.  I was trying
different configurations, but test pages did not come through, so I
thought the configurations were wrong.  Then about a half hour
later, the first of the test pages started coming through!  Geez.

  Bob


----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Fraser" <beatnic@comcast.net>
To: <tacos@amrad.org>
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 11:26 AM
Subject: Erlang?


> Are Erlangs ever used in radio channel analysis? It is new to me.
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>  http://www.erlang.com/whatis.html
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