Erlang capacity of multiaccess systems with service-based access selection

In this letter, we provide the lower and upper bounds of Erlang capacity of multiaccess systems supporting several different radio access technologies in the multiservice scenario, by considering two extreme operation methods; separate and common operation. In a numerical example with GSM/EDGE-like and WCDMA-like subsystems, it is shown that the common operation method can provide up to 60% Erlang capacity improvement over the separate operation method when using a near optimum so-called service-based user assignment scheme, with the combined effects of the assignment and the trunking gains. Even in the worst-case, the common operation method still can provide about 15% capacity improvement over the separate operation method, which mainly comes from the trunking gain.