BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
ID:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR2000-377
ENTRY:: October 12, 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:: Cybenko, George
AUTHOR:: Gray, Robert S. 
AUTHOR:: Jiang, Guofei 
AUTHOR:: Peterson, Ronald A. 
AUTHOR:: Hofmann, Martin O. 
AUTHOR:: Chacon, Daria A. 
AUTHOR:: Whitebread, Kenneth R. 
AUTHOR:: Hendler, James 
DATE:: October 2000
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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).
END:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR2000-377