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However, for analytical tractability and simplification, existing analytical models are derived based on the unrealistic assumptions that the network traffic follows the Poisson process, which is suitable to model nonbursty text data, and the data plane of SDN is modelled by one simplified Single-Server Single-Queue (SSSQ) system. Recent measurement studies have shown that, due to the features of heavy volume and high velocity, the multimedia big data generated by real-world multimedia applications reveals the bursty and correlated nature in the network transmission. With the aim of capturing such features of realistic traffic patterns and obtaining a comprehensive and deeper understanding of the performance behaviour of SDN networks, this article presents a new analytical model to investigate the performance of SDN in the presence of the bursty and correlated arrivals modelled by the Markov Modulated Poisson Process (MMPP). The Quality-of-Service performance metrics in terms of the average latency and average network throughput of the SDN networks are derived based on the developed analytical model. To consider a realistic multiqueue system of forwarding elements, a Priority-Queue (PQ) system is adopted to model the SDN data plane. To address the challenging problem of obtaining the key performance metrics, for example, queue-length distribution of a PQ system with a given service capacity, a versatile methodology extending the Empty Buffer Approximation (EBA) method is proposed to facilitate the decomposition of such a PQ system to two SSSQ systems. The validity of the proposed model is demonstrated through extensive simulation experiments. 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