光突发交换技术是最具发展潜力的光交换技术之一，而减少突发丢失是其首要问题。传统的静态路由机制不能随着网络负载的变化而更改路由，不能有效应对动态业务。为此，在研究现有动态负载平衡路由机制的基础上，提出了一种基于蚁群探测的路由机制。蚁群根据节点出度链路上的负载变化选择下一跳节点，当转发到目的节点时收集蚁群探测到的所有备选路径，然后根据备选路径中记录的链路负载选择可使丢包最小的路径，通过选择更加合理的路由，达到减少突发丢失率的目的。仿真结果表明，与其他算法相比，所提出的机制表现出比较好的性能，有效降低至少15%突发丢失率。

综合考虑了突发包所经历跳数和突发包的长度等因素，文章给出了一种新型的支持服务质量(QoS)的光突发交换(OBS)数据信道调度协议——考虑跳数的改进型JET模式下的优先级抢占(H-PPJET)协议。文章在OBS网络环境中对H-PPJET协议进行了仿真,并与JET模式下的优先级抢占(PPJET)协议进行了对比，仿真结果表明,H-PPJET协议改善了网络的吞吐量和丢包率性能。

文章提出一种基于移动代理和光突发交换(OBS)的光链路信令建立方法和协议方案。将主动包的结构应用于移动代理,使信令消息和数据流概括到一个突发包头(BHP)中, 以此来缩短一个光路的建立时间。该方案可以实现分布式处理链路, 以减轻网络中一个节点的工作量和加强每个网络节点的并行运算能力。

A novel optical burst switching (OBS) high speed network architecture has been proposed. To verify its feasibility and evaluate its performance, just-enough-time (JET) signaling has been considered as a high performance protocol. In the proposed architecture, to avoid burst losses, firstly, a short-prior-confirmation-packet (SPCP) is sent over the control channel that simulates the events that the actual packet will experience. Once SPCP detects a drop at any of the intermediate nodes, the actual packet is not sent but the process repeats. In order to increase network utilization, cost effectiveness and to overcome some limitations of conventional OBS, inherent codes (e.g., orthogonal optical codes (OOC)), which are codified only in intensity, has been used. Through simulations, it shows that a decrease in burst loss probability, cost effectiveness and a gain in processing time are obtained when optical label processing is used as compared with electronic processing.