BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
ID:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR2000-366
ENTRY:: May 02, 2000
ORGANIZATION:: Dartmouth College, Computer Science
TITLE:: Performance Analysis of Mobile Agents for Filtering Data Streams on Wireless Networks
TYPE:: Technical Report (paper)
REVISION:: 1
AUTHOR:: Kotz, David 
AUTHOR:: Jiang, Guofei
AUTHOR:: Gray, Robert S.
AUTHOR:: Cybenko, George
AUTHOR:: Peterson, Ronald A. 
DATE:: May 2000
RETRIEVAL:: For a paper copy, email <reports@cs.dartmouth.edu>
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       Dartmouth College
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ABSTRACT:: 
Wireless networks are an ideal environment for mobile agents, because
their mobility allows them to move across an unreliable link to reside
on a wired host, next to or closer to the resources they need to use.
Furthermore, client-specific data transformations can be moved across
the wireless link, and run on a wired gateway server, with the goal of
reducing bandwidth demands.  In this paper we examine the tradeoffs
faced when deciding whether to use mobile agents to support a
data-filtering application, in which numerous wireless clients filter
information from a large data stream arriving across the wired
network.  We develop an analytical model and use parameters from our
own experiments to explore the model's implications.
NOTE:: 
In August 2000 a revised version appeared in the International
Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems
(MSWiM 2000).  In October 2000 a further revised version appeared as
Dartmouth Technical Report TR2000-377, and was submitted to the
journal Mobile Networks and Applications (ACM MONET).
END:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR2000-366