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 …

Optical burst switching (OBS) is a new paradigm proposed to efficiently support the ever-
growing broadband multimedia traffic either directly or indirectly (eg, via IP) over all optical …

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 …

Optical burst switching (OBS) is envisioned to be one of the promising technologies to
support all-optical switching in the core Internet. It combines the benefits of the fine-grained …

To support bursty traffic on the Internet (and especially WWW) efficiently, optical burst
switching (OBS) is proposed as a way to streamline both protocols and hardware in building …

Next-generation high-speed Internet backbone networks will be required to support a broad
range of emerging applications which may not only require significant bandwidth, but may …

In this article, we first explore design choices in burst-switching and describe a new variation
that is especially suitable for optical WDM networks. We then identify main features of optical …

We describe the architecture, performance analysis and simulation result of a novel
switching paradigm for optical WDM networks called Just-In-Time Optical Burst Switching …

We analyze optical burst switching (OBS) systems. The analysis leads to a framework which
provides guidelines for OBS design. We identify conditions for OBS feasibility and the …

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 …