@TechReport{Dartmouth:TR2000-366,
  author = {David Kotz and Guofei Jiang and Robert S. Gray and George Cybenko and Ronald A. Peterson},
  title = {{Performance Analysis of Mobile Agents for Filtering Data Streams on Wireless Networks}},
  institution = {Dartmouth College, Computer Science},
  address = {Hanover, NH},
  number = {TR2000-366},
  year = {2000},
  month = {May},
  URL = {http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2000-366.ps.Z},
  comment = {
    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).
  },
  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.
  }
}