Evaluation of the blocking probability in a cellular environment with hard capacity: a statistical approach

In this paper we present an analytical model for the estimation of the blocking probability as a function of the offered traffic per user in a cellular environment, where capacity is determined by hard blocking and the average number of users per cell is small. By the term "hard" capacity we mean the maximum number of users that can be served by a base station. Using a statistical model, the paper shows that the number of mobiles audible to a base that have that base as the strongest one has a Poisson distribution whose mean is given in terms of the mean densities of mobiles and base stations and the parameters of the attenuation law. The model proposed here does not represent a tool for detailed network planning, but it is a helpful (and from the computational viewpoint simple) means for network dimensioning.