The exact contribution of this paper is a review of existing state‐of‐the‐art routing strategies
for optical burst switched networks developed by researchers to deal with burst contention …

Deflection routing is one of the promising approaches to resolve contention in the optical
burst switching networks. In the conventional deflection routing scheme, optical bursts may …

A major concern in optical burst-switched networks is contention, which occurs when
multiple bursts contend for the same link. While a deflection routing protocol is proposed as …

Optical burst switching (OBS) is a very promising switching technology for realization of an
economical optical Internet. In OBS networks, when contention occurs at an intermediate …

A new integrated scheme based on resource-reservation and adaptive network flow routing
to alleviate contention in optical burst switching networks is proposed. The objective of the …

Optical burst switching is a promising paradigm for the next IP over optical network
backbones. However, due to its bufferless nature, it can be highly affected by burst …

In this article we present a survey of routing methods in Optical Burst Switching (OBS)
networks. We begin with a description of routing approaches and follow the discussion with …

Existing methods for handling routing and dimensioning in dynamic WDM networks solve
the two problems separately. The main drawback of this approach is that a global minimum …

Optical Burst Switching (OBS) is one of the most important switching technologies in future
optical Internet. One of critical design issues in OBS is how to reduce burst dropping …

A very important issue in optical burst switching (OBS) networks is the excessive burst drop
when no suitable network resources are found during path reservation. In this study, a …