We study routing methods in all-optical switching networks. In all-optical switching networks, the connection with more hops encounters more call blocking, and it is especially true in optical networks with no wavelength conversions. We therefore consider an alternate routing method with limited trunk reservation in which connections with more hops are prepared more alternate routes. Through developing an approximate analytic approach, we show that our method keeps good performance when compared with the existing alternate routing methods, and also that the fairness among connections can be improved. Further performance improvement is investigated by introducing a wavelength assignment policy and a dynamic routing method. An effectiveness of the proposed method is investigated through simulation.
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