The amount of research being done in the area of optical burst switch-ing has increased tremendously in the past several years. A few yearsago‚ there were very few research works on optical burst switching. Now‚entire technical sessions at major conferences are being devoted to thetopic of optical burst switching‚ and several workshops on optical burstswitching have been organized. An Optical Burst Switching Forum hasbeen formed to facilitate research in optical burst switching throughdiscussion and collaboration‚ and several international efforts are underway to develop optical burst-switched networks. The amount of researchand development being devoted to optical burst switching is a good in-dication of the significant potential of optical burst-switched networks.Optical burst-switched networks have the potential to provide flexibleall-optical data transmission without significant technological barriers.The book is intended to provide an overview of optical burst switch-ing. Since...