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We have investigated the performance of various optical packet switched network (OPSN) architectures comprising optical bufferless nodes and fully connected mesh topologies, under uniform traffic distribution, i.e., all nodes generate the same traffic. We demonstrate that increasing the number of nodes in OSPNs does not necessarily increase performance, or even capacity. By establishing an efficiency parameter based on average number of hops and effective network capacity, decision tables and graphs can be generated and utilized in network planning. Moreover, regular and quasiregular optimized topologies lead to lower latency, higher throughput, and lightpaths with significantly better traffic distribution. The optical nodes have simple configuration and are totally compatible with WDM networks.Index Terms-photonic switching, network topology, optical node architecture, Optical Fiber Communications.

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In this paper we study the behavior of traffic in Metropolitan Access Optical Networks with technologies of optical packet/burst switching (OPS/OBS), using computer modeling and simulations. We analyze network performance and the impact of link failure when electronic buffering at ingress (client input) to optical network is implemented. Mesh and ring topologies are chosen and parameters packet loss fraction and average number of hops are adopted for performance metrics. The use of minimum electronic buffering at ingress is demonstrated to improve access to the optical layer, and necessary to keep the packet loss fraction low and throughput high with low latency. We also show that optical buffering is not necessary for adequate network performance.