Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
5-2-2000
Technical Report Number
TR2000-366
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.
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Kotz, David; Jiang, Guofei; Gray, Robert; Cybenko, George; and Peterson, Ronald A., "Performance Analysis of Mobile Agents for Filtering Data Streams on Wireless Networks" (2000). Computer Science Technical Report TR2000-366. https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/cs_tr/234
Comments
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).