Offer (communications engineering)

An offer in traffic theory is the market value that is fed (offered) to a facility for processing. If at a real point in time C attempts are made to occupy a system with an average occupancy time, then the offer is ${\displaystyle A}$ ${\displaystyle t_{m}}$

${\displaystyle A=C\cdot t_{m}}$

In practice, the offers that are sent to certain parts of the system are usually considered separately.

Whether the offer can be processed or not depends on which service (= market value of the service) the system can process and according to which traffic model it is designed:

• In a loss system , the offer (= market value of the offer) is a theoretical quantity, since it cannot be processed in every case by the system with the service (= market value of the service) . The offer that exceeds the service at a certain point in time (the remaining traffic ) is rejected by the system and is lost as a loss (= market value of the rest). ${\displaystyle y}$ ${\displaystyle y}$
• in a theoretical waiting time system , the offer is processed without loss. In the event of a blockage, however, part of the offer must wait with a waiting probability . These models appear less in reality; here you can find wait / loss models. ${\displaystyle P}$

Examples

In telecommunications systems, systems can be exchanges or telephone systems . System parts can be different feeder bundles of a long-distance exchange .