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Performance Analysis of Mobile Agents for Filtering Data Streams on Wireless Networks

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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 US Navy Fleet Battle Experiment to explore the model's implications.

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  1. Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA

    David Kotz, George Cybenko, Robert S. Gray, Guofei Jiang & Ronald A. Peterson

  2. Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories, Camden, NJ, 08102, USA

    Martin O. Hofmann, Daria A. Chacón & Kenneth R. Whitebread

  3. University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA

    James Hendler

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Kotz, D., Cybenko, G., Gray, R.S. et al. Performance Analysis of Mobile Agents for Filtering Data Streams on Wireless Networks. Mobile Networks and Applications 7, 163–174 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1013778922814

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