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saturated buffers, respectively. One can see that there is no signicant difference in the pat-
terns of uctuation in a network with load λ = 0.17506 (Figure 2.48) and in a network with the
critical load λ
c
= 0.17507 just before the saturation phase (Figure 2.49). But in the latter case,
the number of messages in the network and the number of saturated buffers suddenly grow
explosively (rapidly increasing from 0 to 1024 for the saturated buffers), and nally, the entire
network transitions to the saturation state.
2.4 FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
It would be important to put the results obtained for netw