The performance of optical packet switching employing partially shared buffering (PSB) and shared wavelength converter (SWC) for self-similar traffics are studied.The effects of output buffers
the PSBs and SWC on the packet loss probability and delay are analyzed with consideration on the issues
such as dimension of switching matrix
buffering size
etc.The simulation results show that optical packet switching nodes with PSB and SWC are of good performance.The scheme of SWC can obviously reduce the number of wavelength converters in comparison with the scheme employing wavelength converters at each input wavelength path.For fixed depth
grouping PSB into several subgroups can improve the performance of optical packet switching nodes.