Teletraffic considerations for widespread deployment of PCS

To offer personal communication services (PCS) to large segments of the population, sophisticated digital radio access techniques and extensive use of "Advanced Intelligent Network" services of public wireline networks will be required. To accommodate wireless access on such a wide scale, a broad range of challenging new teletraffic problems will need to be solved. In this article the authors give a brief, high-level overview of some of the important teletraffic issues that they believe will need to be addressed to support widespread deployment of PCS. Much more work is needed in order to refine our understanding of these issues, to prioritize specific problems, and to solve them. The purpose of this article is not to provide an exhaustive list of all PCS teletraffic issues, but rather to stimulate discussion of these problems.<>