Research on the Traffic Aggregation Process in Optical Burst Switched Networks
Next generation optical networks should provide high capacity to support ever increasing traffic demands. Many technologies have been developed recently for optical transport networks to increase throughput, improve energy efficiency and simplify network deployment. One of most important problems in modern optical networks is IP traffic transmission. Although optical fibers provide tremendous throughput, the overall network performance is still limited by switching nodes. Currently there are three concepts of optical switching: circuit switching, packet switching and burst switching.