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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

On the way towards an architecture for a new QoS-supporting and scalable Internet, the IP-
over-photonics approach seems to be very promising. One possible solution in this domain …