Arrangement for evaluating network capacity, network utilization, and network efficiency in a communications network

摘要

A network having known network parameters is evaluated based on determined network capacity, utilization, and efficiency attributes relative to different traffic constraints and routing constraints applied to the known network parameters. Each of the network capacity, utilization, and efficiency attributes have prescribed definitions based on the network parameters and relative to the different traffic constraints and routing constraints, and are determined based on linear programming computations of the respective prescribed definitions and the network parameters. The network capacity, utilization, and efficiency attributes can then be applied to computer-based optimization resources configured for determining optimum network parameters for the network.