Characteristics of WAP Traffic

This paper considers the characteristics of WAP traffic. We start by constructing a model of WAP traffic based on a number of user scenarios. One traffic characteristic which is of particular interest in network dimensioning is the degree of self-similarity, so the paper looks at the characteristics of aggregated traffic with WAP, web and packet speech components to estimate its self-similarity. The results indicated that, while WAP traffic alone does not exhibit a significant degree of self-similarity, a combined load from various traffic sources retains almost the same degree of selfsimilarity as the most self-similar individual source.