Performance analysis of mobile agents for filtering data streams on wireless networks

  • Authors:

  • David Kotz;Guofei Jiang;Robert Gray;George Cybenko;Ronald A. Peterson

  • Affiliations:

  • Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH;Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH;Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH;Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH;Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 3rd ACM international workshop on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
  • Year:
  • 2000

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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.