CMSC 341 -- Spring 2004 -- Project 2 Questions

Copy this file into your directory and edit it to add your answers
to the following questions about project 2.

These questions count for 10% of your project grade.


1. (5 points) What are the advantages and disadvantages of using 
   layering technique to you, the coder, and to the user? 

2. (15 points) Run your code with the same set of parameters 
   except each simulation with a different number of servers 
   and observe the behavior of the service center. 
   Then answer the following questions based on the statistics 
   you collected:

   1) What do you see as the relationship between the number of 
      servers and statistics? 
   2) Is there some point where adding new servers does not improve 
      Job wait time? 
   3) Is there some point where decreasing the number of servers may 
      cause the queue to grow infinitely large?

   You are free to choose the simulation parameters in the experiment. 
   The following is a set of parameters you may want to start with.
     	* seed = 12345
    	* p1 = 0.4
    	* p2 = 0.1
    	* smallService = 5
    	* largeService = 50
    	* switchPoint = 10
    	* simuTime = 120
   You may start with 1 server, then add one more server in each of the
   subsequent runs until you have enough data to draw your conclusion.