%T Performance Analysis of Mobile Agents for Filtering Data Streams on Wireless Networks
%A David Kotz
%A Guofei Jiang
%A Robert S. Gray
%A George Cybenko
%A Ronald A. Peterson
%R Technical Report TR2000-366
%I Dartmouth College, Computer Science
%C Hanover, NH
%D May 2000
%U http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2000-366.ps.Z
%X
 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.
%Z
 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).