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docs(features): quantify the kernel netem correl bias that collapses small rates
The kernel's correlated-random generator (get_crandom, sch_netem.c) truncates instead of wrapping, starving both edges of the stationary distribution: an event threshold below the correlation value is almost never reached. Measured with stock iproute2 on this kernel — uBridge's netlink encoding is identical: loss 1% + correl 25% drops nothing over 2000 pings (expected ~2%), 10%/25% measures ~1.8% one way, only the 50% symmetry point survives. duplicate and reorder correl share the same comparison structure and collapse the same way; gemodel is immune (Markov chain over plain uniform draws) and is the honest tool for bursty loss at a chosen mean rate. Documented in the packet-filters correlation-bias bullet, and surfaced in the two machine-facing descriptions (MCP link_update packet_loss note, controller filter schema) so agents and clients stop walking into the trap.
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"type": "packet_loss",
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"name": "Packet loss",
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"description": "The percentage represents the chance for a packet to be lost. The optional correlation "
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"(kernel-datapath links only) makes consecutive losses dependent, like a bursty real network",
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"(kernel-datapath links only) makes consecutive losses dependent, like a bursty real network. "
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"Kernel caveat: a chance at or below the correlation value collapses toward zero effective loss "
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"(netem correlated-RNG bias) — use gemodel for bursty loss at a known mean rate",
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"parameters": [
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{"name": "Chance", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 100, "type": "int", "unit": "%"},
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{"name": "Correlation", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 100, "type": "int", "unit": "%"},
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