Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
10-2000
Technical Report Number
TR2000-377
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.
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Kotz, David; Cybenko, George; Gray, Robert S.; Jiang, Guofei; Peterson, Ronald A.; Hofmann, Martin O.; Chacon, Daria A.; and Whitebread, Kenneth R., "Performance Analysis of Mobile Agents for Filtering Data Streams on Wireless Networks" (2000). Computer Science Technical Report TR2000-377. https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/cs_tr/233
Comments
Updated version of TR2000-366. To appear, after revisions, in the journal Mobile Networks and Applications (ACM MONET).