Optical network is playing a vital role to fulfill the demand of bandwidth hungry applications.
Optical circuit switching (OCS), Optical packet switching (OPS), and optical burst switching …

To meet the demands of ever increasing bandwidth hungry applications architectures like
circuit switching, packet switching and burst switching have been proposed in the literature …

The routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) schemes play an important role in all
computer networks. The performance of a computer network and resource utilization largely …

The emergence of Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) technology provides the
capability for increasing the bandwidth of Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) rings by …

Feature Issue on Waveband Switching, Routing, and Grooming Wavelength switching is
used in current light-path networks to set up connections between node pairs. With the …

Traffic grooming in optical networks has gained significance due to the prevailing sub-
wavelength requirement of end users. Optical networks get upgraded to the latest …

In this paper, we address the problem of optical grooming of data bursts in segment-based
traffic of Optical Burst Switching (OBS) networks. The objective is to aggregate in one burst …

Traffic grooming in optical networks refers to consolidation of subwavelength client
connections onto lightpaths. Depending on whether client connections are given in advance …

With the huge capacity, wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical networks are
predominantly used as the transport infrastructure to carry inter-domain traffic for client …

Several switching architectures like circuit switching, packet switching and burst switching
have been proposed and developed for efficient utilization of high speed optical networks …