Research Article

Performance Sensitivity to the High-Order Statistics of Time Interval Variables in Cellular Networks

Table 2

Transition rates and transition rules for the case when the DT is hyper-Erlang distributed and IT is negative exponentially distributed.

EventSuccessor stateRate

A new call enters first stage of phase i of Xr (i = 1, 2, ..., m(n))

A new call leaves stage j of phase i and enters stage j + 1 of phase i of Xr (i = 1, 2,..,m(n)), ()

A new call leaves last stage of phase i of Xr (i = 1, 2, ..., m(n))

A new call leaves stage of phase i of Xr (i = 1, 2, ..., m(n))

A handed off call enters first stage of phase i of Xd (i = 1, 2, ..., m(h))

A handed off call leaves stage j of phase i and enters stage j + 1 of phase i of Xd (i = 1, 2, ..., m(h)) ()

A handed off call leaves last stage of phase i of Xd (i = 1, 2, ..., m(h))

A handed off call leaves stage of phase i of Xd (i = 1, 2, ..., m(n))