Title :
Transition Matrix Analysis of System Outages
Author :
Yevick, D. ; Reimer, M.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo
Abstract :
We adapt transition matrix methods to time-dependent communication systems. We then calculate the distribution of the outage times of an optical fiber system impaired by stochastically varying polarization-mode dispersion.
Keywords :
Monte Carlo methods; optical fibre networks; telecommunication network reliability; Monte Carlo methods; optical fiber system; stochastically varying polarization-mode dispersion; system outages; time-dependent communication systems; transition matrix analysis; Delay; Histograms; Monte Carlo methods; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Polarization mode dispersion; Probability density function; Probability distribution; Sampling methods; Communication systems; Monte Carlo methods; dispersion; modeling; polarization;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2007.903877
