Techno-Economic Studies of Optical Packet-Switched Networks

Dear Colleagues,

Optical packet switching has emerged as the most promising network architecture to handle the increasing traffic demand on the internet. Over the recent decades, considerable amounts of research have been put into better understanding the networking aspects of optical packet-switched networks, as well as to advance the state of art of the physical components constituting such networks. However, as optical packet-switched technology matures, there are still open issues on how such networks impact economics, businesses, and network convergence.

This Special Issue focuses on the techno-economic aspects of optical packet switching. Even though optical packet switching is superior to electronic switching from a performance point of view, cost and economic considerations must also taken into account when designing future network architectures. Moreover, optical packet switching may spawn novel ways to use and organize traffic handling on the internet. We also observe that fixed networks need to integrate seamlessly with both wireless networks and the Internet of Things.

We invite researchers and academics to contribute original research or review articles to this Special Issue.

Prof. Harald Øverby
Guest Editor

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• Techno-economic studies of optical packet switching
• Business models involving optical packet switching
• Cost modeling of optical packet switched networks
• Novel optical packet switching node designs and network architectures
• IoT integration with optical packet switching
• Optical and wireless network convergence