WAP vs. WWW Traffic
l Some similarities:
u Periodicity
X Daily patterns (and to some extent half-daily patterns)
X Weekly patterns (and to some extent half-weekly patterns)
X Not enough trace data to confirm/test for seasonal patterns
u Self-similarity (Hurst Parameter between 0.79 and 0.82)
l But also some differences:
u Smaller packets (95% of all packets less than 220 bytes)
u Shorter sessions
u Traffic more balanced (dowlink traffic “only” about 3 times as
much data as uplink traffic)
u No growth trend in data presented in paper, but long-term growth
trend clearly visible since