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Due to there exists correlation within packets, traffic tends to arrive in bursts. This phenomenon may congest the network and reduce the system performance. To improve the system performance, we need to study the characteristics of correlated packet traffic. In this thesis, we use HAP model, a traffic model to capture correlation within packet traffic, as our traffic source to measure burstiness, delay and loss. When measuring burstiness, it is important and necessary to determine a burst. if we regard traffic as consecutive burst periods and silent periods. We propose three burst definitions which can be used to determine a burst. To observe the mean number of bursts, mean burst length and burstiness from these definitions, we find their advantages and suggest a hybrid method. We measure mean delay, delay variance and loss ratio by varying server queue size to see the behaviors of delay and loss patterns of correlated packet traffic. We find that HAP traffic suffers serious delay and loss. We also chart delay and loss curves to see thetradeoff between them.
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