Title :
Mining the fibre-optic channel capacity in the local area: maximizing spectral efficiency in multi-wavelength optical CDMA networks
Author :
Ng, Eddie K H ; Sargent, Edward H.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Toronto Univ., Ont., Canada
Abstract :
We combine forward error correction and dynamic threshold optimization to achieve a dramatic increase in the spectrum utilization of multi-wavelength optical code division multiple access (MW-OCDMA) local area networks
Keywords :
channel capacity; code division multiple access; error correction codes; forward error correction; multiuser channels; optical fibre LAN; optimisation; spectral analysis; FEC; Shannon capacity; code division multiple access; dynamic threshold optimization; error control code; fibre-optic channel capacity; forward error correction; local area networks; multi-wavelength optical CDMA networks; optical LAN; optimum threshold detection; spectral efficiency maximisation; spectrum utilization; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Channel capacity; Forward error correction; High speed optical techniques; Intelligent networks; Multiaccess communication; Optical fiber networks; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 2001. ICC 2001. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Helsinki
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7097-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.2001.937332
