Dynamic congestion-based load balanced routing in optical burst-switched networks

In optical burst-switched networks, data loss may occur when bursts contend for network resources. There have been several proposed solutions to resolve contentions in order to minimize loss. These localized contention resolution techniques react to contention, but do not address the more fundamental problem of congestion. Hence, there is a need for network level contention avoidance using load balanced routing techniques in order to minimize the loss. In this paper, we propose two dynamic congestion-based load balanced routing techniques to avoid congestion. Our simulation results show that the proposed contention avoidance techniques improve the network utilization and reduce the packet loss probability.