Title :
Physical impairment awareness in the context of an operator infrastructure
Author_Institution :
Orange Labs., Lannion, France
Abstract :
The design and operation of optical transparent networks requires some physical layer awareness that is obtained through physical modelling. We show in this paper that the operator context adds some constraints for the design and use of these models.
Keywords :
optical fibre networks; telecommunication network reliability; operator infrastructure; optical transparent network; physical impairment awareness; Bit error rate; Context awareness; Context modeling; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical crosstalk; Optical distortion; Optical fiber networks; Optical mixing; Optical noise; Physical impairment modelling; impairment awareness; optical networking; transparency;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics in Switching, 2009. PS '09. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Pisa
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3857-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3856-3
DOI :
10.1109/PS.2009.5307743
