In this article we present a survey of routing methods in Optical Burst Switching (OBS)
networks. We begin with a description of routing approaches and follow the discussion with …

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 …

Deflection routing is employed to ameliorate packet loss caused by contention in buffer-less
architectures such as optical burst-switched networks. The main goal of deflection routing is …

In this paper, we evaluate the performance of a burst retransmission scheme in which the
bursts lost due to contentions in an OBS network are retransmitted at the OBS layer. The …

In this paper, a performance comparison of resolution policies specific to optical burst
switching is presented. A framework, based on a reduced-load approximation, is developed …

In this paper, we present a new approximation for estimating blocking probability in overflow
loss networks and systems. Given a system for which an estimate of blocking probability is …

We develop, analyze and then numerically compare performance models of a fast-adapting
and centrally controlled form of optical circuit switching (OCS) with a conservative form of …

Optical burst switching (OBS) control architecture considers two different models for the
management of the offset time in the network. The conventional OBS (C-OBS) introduces the …

This paper studies the blocking performance of optical burst switching (OBS) networks using
a sequential office control (SOC) state-independent deflection routing policy. We show that …

In this paper, we propose a Q-learning based deflection routing algorithm that may be
employed to resolve contention in optical burst-switched networks. The main goal of …