Performance Evaluation of a Bufferless Packet-Switched Node

In the paper we analyze the steady-state performance of a bufferless optical packet-switched node that works synchronously under the Poisson traffic. Given the admission control and routing algorithms we compute the mean rates at which packets are admitted into the network and probabilities with which packets are lost or leave the nodes along specific outputs. The analysis results differ with simulation results by a small error in the cases that we studied. The analysis is applicable to nodes of any degree and any number of wavelengths.