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Lecture - Teletraffic Theory

Teletraffic theory is the application of probability theory to solve problems related to planning, evaluating, operating, and maintaining telecommunication systems. It uses tools from operations research like stochastic processes, queueing theory, and simulation. The objective is to mathematically model traffic in defined units and derive the relationship between grade-of-service and system capacity for planning investments. The tasks are to design cost-effective systems given future demand and capacity, ensure the actual grade-of-service meets requirements, and specify emergency actions during overloads or faults. This requires forecasting demand, calculating capacity, and defining quantitative measures for grade-of-service.

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Lecture - Teletraffic Theory

Teletraffic theory is the application of probability theory to solve problems related to planning, evaluating, operating, and maintaining telecommunication systems. It uses tools from operations research like stochastic processes, queueing theory, and simulation. The objective is to mathematically model traffic in defined units and derive the relationship between grade-of-service and system capacity for planning investments. The tasks are to design cost-effective systems given future demand and capacity, ensure the actual grade-of-service meets requirements, and specify emergency actions during overloads or faults. This requires forecasting demand, calculating capacity, and defining quantitative measures for grade-of-service.

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TELETRAFFIC THEORY

Teletraffic theory is defined as the application of probability theory to the


solution of problems concerning planning, performance evaluation, operation
and maintenance of telecommunication systems. More generally, teletraffic
theory can be viewed as a discipline of planning where the tools (stochastic
processes, queueing theory and numerical simulation) are taken from the
disciplines of operations research.

The objective of teletraffic theory can be formulated as


follows:
➢ to make the traffic measurable in well defined units
through mathematical models and to derive the
relationship between grade-of-service and system
capacity in such a way that the theory becomes a
tool by which investments can be planned.
The task of teletraffic theory is:
--to design systems as cost effectively as possible with a predefined
grade of service when we know the future traffic demand and the
capacity of system elements.
--to specify methods for controlling that the actual grade of service is
fulfilling the requirements.
--to specify emergency actions when systems are overloaded or technical
faults occur.
This requires methods for forecasting the demand (e.g. based on traffic
measurements), methods for calculating the capacity of the systems, and
specification of quantitative measures for the grade of service.
Introduction to Grade-of-Service = GoS
A network operator must decide what services the network should deliver to
the end user and the level of service quality that the user should experience.

This is true for any telecommunications network, whether it is circuit- or


packet-switched, wired or wireless, optical or copper-based, and it is
independent of the transmission technology applied.

Further decisions to be made may include the type and layout of the network
infrastructure for supporting the services, and the choice of techniques to be
used for handling the information transport.

These further decisions may be different, depending on whether the operator


is already present in the market, or is starting service from a greenfield
situation (i.e. a situation where there is no legacy network in place to
consider).
As for the Quality of Service (QoS) concept, it is defined as: The
collective effect of service performance, which determine the degree of
satisfaction of a user of the service. The QoS consists of a set of
parameters that pertain to the traffic performance of the network, but in
addition to this, the QoS also includes a lot of other concepts. They can
be summarized as:
service support performance
service operability performance
serveability performance and
service security performance

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