This paper reviews advanced optical burst switching (OBS) and optical packet switching
(OPS) technologies and discusses their roles in the future photonic Internet. Discussions …

Data-intensive applications that operate on large volumes of data have motivated a fresh
look at the design of data center networks. The first wave of proposals focused on designing …

The state of the art of modern lightwave system design Recent advances in lightwave
technology have led to an explosion of high-speed global information systems throughout …

In this tutorial, we give an introduction to optical burst switching and compare it with other
existing optical switching paradigms. Basic burst assembly algorithms and their effect on …

The rapid pace of development in both Internet applications and emerging optical
technologies is bringing about fundamental changes in networking philosophies. Key trends …

We address the issue of contention resolution in optical burst switched networks, and we
introduce an approach for reducing packet losses which is based on the concept of burst …

We present an architecture for a core dWDM network which utilizes the concept of optical
burst switching coupled with a just-in-time signaling scheme. It is a reservation-based …

The concept of optical burst switching (OBS) aims to allow access to optical bandwidth in
dense wavelength division multiplexed (DWDM) networks at fractions of the optical line rate …

This paper concerns itself with the performance of deflection routing in optical burst-switched
networks based on just-enough-time (JET) signaling. Generally speaking, buffer …

Optical burst switching is a promising solution for all-optical WDM networks. It combines the
benefits of optical packet switching and wavelength routing while taking into account the …