The generalized optical burst switching (G-OBS) enabling multi-service converging transport

How to shrink the gap between the service provision capacity and the QoS requirements of user applications is one of key issues of the naive OBS in multi-service carry environment. This paper extended the concept of optical burst, and proposed a novel OBS architecture (i.e., G-OBS). Besides, this paper also discuss some enhancements of G-OBS from node functional models, hierarchy optical burst framing, resource reservation and scheduling, and traffic grooming.