Different behavioral characteristics of Web traffic between wireless and wire IP network

Web service has become the largest consumer of Internet resources and is a promising 3G wireless service. Constructing an accurate model of Web traffic is essential for networking experiments involving end-to-end performance. In this paper, we employ an approach of analyzing TCP/IP header to obtain Web traffic model. By comparing Web traffic of wireless and wire network, we present some different characteristics between them that reflect the influences of wireless limited bandwidth and high tariff. Furthermore, Hurst parameter shows that the self-similar nature of wireless Web traffic still exists.