Contents

• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Introduction
• Installation
  • In general
  • An example: In the Chalmers computer system
• Getting started: The LYDIAN graphical user interface
  • Menu system
  • A simple example
  • Graphical animation windows
  • ASCII monitoring
• LYDIAN model
  • Simulator model
  • Protocol model
  • Network model
  • Assumptions made for the simulated systems
• Making new protocols
  • Design
  • System structure
  • Implementation
  • Adding new protocols to LYDIAN
• Making new networks
  • Network description files
• DIAS reference
  • Debugging and metrics
  • Available routines in the simulator
• POLKA Animation Designer's Package
  • Animator level
  • Animation Views
  • Objects in an Animation View
• The source code of algorithm Broadcast with ACK
• The source code of Ricart and Agrawala's Resource Allocation algorithm
• Bibliography