Monotonicity of the Erlang blocking probability (${\partial }_{a}E(a,C)=E(a,C)[C-m_C(a)]/a>0$)

For positive integer capacity $C$ and offered load $a>0$, let $m_C(a)$ be the carried load of an Erlang loss resource. Differentiating the upper-truncated Poisson distribution gives $m_C^{\prime }(a)=\mathrm{Var}(N)/a>0$. Differentiating its probability at $C$ gives the displayed derivative of the Erlang loss formula; it is positive because $m_C(a)<C$. Thus blocking increases continuously from zero to one, and the carried load increases from zero to $C$. These properties justify the inverse blocking coordinates in the convex potential for the Erlang fixed point.