Recurrent Method for Blocking Probability Calculation in Switching Networks with Overflow Links

This article presents a new recurrent method for modelling multi-service switching networks with overflow links. In the proposed method, the blocking probability for a given stage of the switching network is determined on the basis of the characteristics of the preceding stage. A particular attention is given to a possibility of a considerable reduction of the internal blocking probability of the switching network that would result from an application of additional overflow links between neighbouring switches of the first stage of the network. The results of the analytical modelling of selected multi-service switching networks with overflow links in the first stage are compared with the results of the simulation experiments. The study confirms the accuracy of all the adopted theoretical assumptions in the proposed analytical model of the multi-service switching network.