@techreport{kotz:model-tr, author = {David Kotz and Guofei Jiang and Robert Gray and George Cybenko and Ronald A. Peterson}, title = {Performance Analysis of Mobile Agents for Filtering Data Streams on Wireless Networks}, year = {2000}, month = {May}, number = {TR2000-366}, institution = {Dept. of Computer Science, Dartmouth College}, copyright = {the authors}, group = {dfk, agents, coabs, actcomm, cmc}, vitatype = {02}, later = {kotz:model}, url = {http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/abstracts/TR2000-366/}, urlpdf = {http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~dfk/papers/kotz:model-tr.pdf}, keyword = {mobile agents, modeling, performance analysis, wireless network, dfk}, 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.} }