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GSM traffic channels

  • This topic has 3 replies, 1 voice, and was last updated 20 years ago by faris.
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    John Silungwe
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    Is a Traffic Channel (TCH) in a GSM mobile network given the same treatment as a circuit in an E1 trunk group when calculating Offered Traffic in Erlangs? Take for instance a GSM cell or sector with a maximum number of 28 TCHs, what would be the Traffic Offered in Erlangs if the grade of service is 2% in the Radio Interface? Please I need quick response to this question.

    Thank you.

    #32536
    Patrick Musonda
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    This question John asked has been outstanding for sometime now without any one contributing to it. Can someone in the GSM Air Interface engineering fraternity say something please. I don’t think no one in Europe(the birth place of GSM technology) has seen this article. I expect engineers from Nortel, Nokia, Erricson, Siemens, Alcatel etc to give an answer to this question, or is it still under research?

    #32537
    Brett
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    Yes we normally treat a GSM tslots (TCH) the same as a fixed wire 64KBs ccts, etc etc.

    There is some question as to whether Erlang B or C should be used, but generally in the Industry, Erlang B is used.

    I have worked in GSM for 4 years with a number of companies and all have dimensioned TCH this way.

    That said, there are some special situations, where Erlang B is used, but in a different way, specifically fractionally loaded networks. Here TCH’s on the BCCH carrier may be considered separately to hopping TCH’s in another group of channels.

    Hope this helps

    #32538
    faris
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    hi all
    can we use erlng b formul to calculate the capacity in GSM(mx no. of users)
    if yes,are they talk in the same time
    whats A=77.2 means,where A is the traffic intensity in erlang b

    thx

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