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

In an effort to eliminate the electronic bottleneck, new optical switches/routers (hardware)
are being built for the next-generation optical Internet where IP runs over an all-optical WDM …

Wavelength-division multiplexing has emerged as an important physical layer technology.
Optical transmission provides a physical layer capable of carrying bits at the speed at the …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

The switching speeds of electronics cannot keep up with the transmission capacity offered
by optics. All-optical switch fabrics play a central role in the effort to migrate the switching …

In this paper, the optical composite burst switching (OCBS) technique is proposed to be
implemented in an all-optical backbone network to support Internet protocol (IP) traffic. The …

Optical burst switching (OBS) is a promising solution for building terabit optical routers and
realizing IP over WDM. In this paper, we describe the basic concept of OBS and present a …