A system and method for capacity analysis in communication networks,
particularly for on the move ad hoc wireless packet-switched networks, as
well as wide variety of other multimedia networks. The invention seeks to
use the same two attributes per link (link capacity and link utilization)
as known circuit-switched based analysis tools while incorporating useful
aspects of various statistical analyses, such as a Queuing Theory based
analysis, among others. In one embodiment, the invention introduces four
tests to be implemented per each link, with results of these four tests
being used to color code link congestion states to generate the reports
for a planner. These four tests may generate an improved analysis of the
network utilizing the same number of variables used in simple
conventional circuit switched based analysis.