Performance Analysis of Mobile Agents for Filtering  Data Streams on Wireless Networks

Dartmouth Technical Report TR2000-377

	David Kotz
	George Cybenko
	Robert S. Gray
	Guofei Jiang
	Ronald A. Peterson
	Martin O. Hofmann
	Daria A. Chacon
	Kenneth R. Whitebread
	James Hendler

Date: October 2000

URL (compressed postscript): <http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2000-377.ps.Z> (168KB)

URL (PDF): <http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2000-377.pdf> (200KB)

Abstract:
 Wireless networks are an ideal environment for mobile agents, since their 
 mobility allows them to move across an unreliable link to reside on a wired 
 host, next to or closer to the resources that they need to use.  Furthermore, 
 client-specific data transformations can be moved across the wireless link and
 run on a wired gateway server, reducing bandwidth demands.  In
 this paper we examine the tradeoffs faced when deciding whether to use mobile 
 agents in a data-filtering application where numerous wireless clients filter 
 information from a large data stream arriving across the wired network.  We
 develop an analytical model and use parameters from filtering experiments 
 conducted during a U.S. Navy Fleet Battle Experiment (FBE) to explore the
 model's implications.

Note:
 Updated version of TR2000-366.  To appear, after revisions, in the journal
 Mobile Networks and Applications (ACM MONET).