Modeling of HTTP traffic

In this letter, the authors show that the behavior of Web users strongly af fects the dynamics of TCP connections in Internet, Analyzing actual and sys tematically generated HTTP traces, it is proved that the time between the d ownloads of two pages is critical to determine the re-utilization of connec tions. On the other hand, the use of 1.1 version of the HTTP standard does not significantly affect the traffic generated by HTTP 1.0 browsers, In thi s sense, the heavy-tailed nature of the size of HTTP connections can be con sidered an invariant property.