METHOD FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF DATA PACKETS BY MEANS OF AN OPTICAL BURST SWITCHING NETWORK AND NETWORK NODES FOR AN OPTICAL BURST SWITCHING NETWORK

摘要

The invention relates to transmission in a burst switching network, whereby data packets are collected to form a burst which is provided with a header. A loop-free common control channel is provided in the optical burst switching network to which all network nodes have access. Headers are transmitted by the loop-free control channel such that a header is distributed virtually in parallel to all network nodes and processed virtually in parallel in the network nodes.