Approaches for dealing with the beat-down unfairness problem have been mainly limited to
electronic packet-switching networks. We investigate two methods for alleviating this …

In optical burst switching (OBS) networks, burst with different numbers of hops experience
unfairness in terms of the burst loss probability. In this paper, we propose a preemptive …

In this paper, we propose and evaluate two schemes for improving bandwidth utilization in
optical burst-switched (OBS) networks employing timer-based burst assembly routines. The …

A mechanism that is often proposed for Quality-of-Service differentiation in Optical Burst-
Switched networks is offset-time management. In this paper we identify and explain some …

Optical burst switching (OBS) is a promising switching technology for next-generation
Internet backbone networks. One of the design challenges is how to provide fair bandwidth …

In this paper, we introduce a new signalling architecture called Dual-header Optical Burst
Switching (DOBS) for next generation burst-switching optical networks. DOBS decouples 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 …

This paper revisits burst contention resolution problems in optical burst switching (OBS)
networks from the viewpoint of network utility maximization. Burst collision occurs when two …

Optical burst switching (OBS) is a proposed new communications technology that seeks to
expand the use of optical technology in switching systems. However, many challenging …

In the past years, several signaling protocols were proposed for OBS networks and the most
popular one is the Just-Enough-Time (JET) protocol. JET not only efficiently utilizes the …