The erlang (symbol E) is a dimensionless unit that is used in telephony as a measure of offered

load or carried load on service-providing elements such as telephone circuits or telephone

switching equipment. For example, a single cord circuit has the capacity to be used for 60
minutes in one hour. If one hundred six-minute calls are received on a group of such circuits,
then the total traffic in that hour is six hundred minutes or 10 erlangs.
Blocking in telecommunication systems is when a circuit group is fully occupied and unable to
accept further calls. It also referred to as congestion. Due to blocking in telecommunications
systems, calls are either queued (but not lost) or are lost (all calls made over congested group of
circuits fail). Blocking probability is that describes the probability of call losses for a group of
identical parallel resources.

Where, A is the total traffic offered in units of Erlangs or

N is the number of circuits.

PB is the probability that a customer's request will be rejected due to lack of resources.

%% Program to simulate blocking probability

clc;
clear all;
close all;
N=[1 2 3 4 5 10 20 60]; % The number of Servers or circuits
A=[0.1:0.1:100]; % Traffic intensity A = lambda/mu
for i=1:length(N),
inc=0;
for q=0:N(i)
inc=inc+A.^q/factorial(q);
end
PB(i,:)=A.^N(i)./factorial(N(i))./inc;
end
figure(1)
loglog(A,PB(1,:),'-b',A,PB(2,:),'-b',A,PB(3,:),'-b',...
A,PB(4,:),'-b',A,PB(5,:),'-b',A,PB(6,:),'-b',A,PB(7,:),'-b',...
A,PB(8,:),'-b');

xlabel('Traffic Intensity,rho [Erlangs]');

ylabel('Probability of Blocking');
title('Probability of Blocking Vs Traffic Intensity');
axis([0.1 100 1e-4 1]);
text(2.e-1,0.15,'N=1');
text(3.2e-1,3e-2,'N=2');
text(4.8e-1,1e-2,'N=3');
text(7.2e-1,5e-3,'N=4');
text(1,3e-3,'N=5');
text(3.4,1.5e-3,'N=10');
text(9.8,1.6e-3,'N=20');
text(41,1.6e-3,'N=60');
grid on;