METHOD TO PROCESS AND FORWARD CONTROL PACKETS IN OBS/LOBS AND OTHER BURST SWITCHED NETWORKS

摘要

A method (Figure 2) reduce the minimum offset time and pretransmission delay for each data burst in Optical Burst Switching or Labeled Optical Burst Switching or other packet or burst switched systems. Under this method, the control packet is relayed (step 1) as soon as it is determined if bandwidth for the data burst at the data burst output port(s) can be reserved successfully (steps 2 and 3), greatly speeding up the setup and configuration of the switching element (steps 4, 5 and 6).