Teletraffic engineering/What is the Engset calculation?/Solution

Table 1 below shows the results for Erlang B and Engset calculations.

Number of sourses 10 20 100
traffic offered in Erlang 5 5 5
GoS 0.01 0.01 0.01
# of lines (Engset) 9 10 11
# of lines (Erlang) 11 11 11

Table 1: - TABLE COMPARING RESULTS FOR ERLANG AND ENGSET CALCULATIONS FOR NUMBER OF LINES SPECIFIED FOR SAME NUMBER OF SOURCES AND OFFERED TRAFFIC AT 0.01 GoS.


Notice that the Erlang B formula specifies the maximum number of lines needed even if there are fewer sources.