blocking dives you the non served calls
congestion gives the time when no resource are available (it is possible that nobody needs them so no blocks)
there is a possiblity to have high blocking and low congestion – this means that you have a peak of the attempts.
vanderley, this is highly dependent on the indicator formula. in alcatel for example, there is the TCH congestion rate (percentage of rejected TCH attempts / TCH requests), and the system congestion time.
Pix you are right it depends how the vendor calls it.
But as far as I know:
Congestion = time when all resources are occupied (no free TCH available)
Blocking = rejected (blocked) attempts over all attempts in %.
Also there is different formulas for TCH blocking. For example in subscriber perceived TCH Blocking all successful directed retries to another cell are removed from the nominator.
is that mean the TCH congestion rate (No avaliable Resources “all the resources are busy ) and Blocking rate for another reason (is it assignment failure ??)
we need more explaination PLZ
could you give us an example .
blocking rate and congestion rate are the same thing !
it means the subscriber requests for a channel, but the BSC rejects this requet because no more channel available.
it can happen at TCH assignment or SDCCH assignment.