Performance issues in optical burst/packet switching

The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01524-3_8This chapter summarises the activities on optical packet switching (OPS) and optical burst switching (OBS) carried out by the COST 291 partners in the last 4 years. It consists of an introduction, five sections with contributions on five different specific topics, and a final section dedicated to the conclusions. Each section contains an introductive state-of-the-art description of the specific topic and at least one contribution on that topic. The conclusions give some points on the current situation of the OPS/OBS paradigms

Dual-homing protection in WDM mesh networks

This paper studies optical-layer protection design in a WDM mesh network given that a dual-homing infrastructure is implemented at the IP layer. The problem is formulated as an integer linear program and solved using CPLEX. © 2003 Optical Society of America