Title :
Secure optical communications
Author_Institution :
Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA
Abstract :
The security issues we address are particularly relevant to all-optical networks, but many are also applicable to the optical portions of electro-optic networks. Optical communication, by virtue of the high rates and low BERs they offer, suffer particularly strenuously from denial of service attacks. A short attack, which might only affect a small number of bits in a slower electronic network, may affect a very large number of bits in optical communications. The very light coding and simple signaling, such as OOK, commonly used on optical transmissions renders them vulnerable to service degradations
Keywords :
amplitude shift keying; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; security; OOK; all-optical networks; electro-optic networks; secure optical communications; service degradations; simple signaling; very light coding; All-optical networks; Degradation; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Jamming; Optical attenuators; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Power measurement; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1998. LEOS '98. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4947-4
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1998.739629