Optical burst switching (OBS) has been proposed as a new paradigm to achieve a practical balance between coarse-grained circuit switching and fine-grained packet switching, hence, better utilizing the available bandwidth. In this dissertation, we analyze a number of issues involving the development of OBS technology, including reactive and proactive contention resolution mechanisms with service differentiation capability, hardware implementation of the scheduler, and data burst grooming. We also propose OBS as an alternative technology to support computationally intensive Grid applications. You can read this introductory work to learn more about OBS. I am currently involved in the following projects in OBS:
1- Using general algorithm (GA) for anycast routing in Grip-over-OBS (GOBS)
2- Utilizing an OBS to conserve energy in optical networks.
Posts
