Communication View

The communication view counts for each process the number of request messages which are necessary when trying to collect all neighbouring resources. When a process changes its state to hungry the number of sent messages is set to zero and the process starts with counting request messages again. A mark shows the maximum number of messages which were necessary when trying to access all its resources. The average process shows the average request messages sent by all processes for accessing a resource once. A mark shows the maximum average value during the execution. It is easy to observe that the number of sent request messages is proportional to the degree of a process. Below each bar of a process the bit complexity of a message is shown. The bit complexity of messages is interesting for this algorithm as the user can observe the logarithmic increase of request messages. The bars and message sizes are coloured according to the colour associated with each process.
 

11/16/1999