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

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, clientspecific 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.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: MSWIM
• Authors: David Kotz, Guofei Jiang, Robert S. Gray, George Cybenko, Ronald A. Peterson
• Keywords: Clientspecific Data Transformations, Mobile Agents, Modelling And Simulation, MSWIM 2000, Wired Gateway Server