WAP Traffic: Description and Comparions to WWW Traffic

Thomas Kunz

Systems and Computer Engineering

WAP vs. WWW Traffic

lSome similarities:

uPeriodicity

XDaily patterns (and to some extent half-daily patterns)

XWeekly patterns (and to some extent half-weekly patterns)

XNot enough trace data to confirm/test for seasonal patterns

uSelf-similarity (Hurst Parameter between 0.79 and 0.82)

lBut also some differences:

uSmaller packets (95% of all packets less than 220 bytes)

uShorter sessions

uTraffic more balanced (dowlink traffic “only” about 3 times as much data as uplink traffic)

uNo growth trend in data presented in paper, but long-term growth trend clearly visible since