DocumentCode
818417
Title
Estimating Outages Due to Polarization Mode Dispersion Using Extreme Value Statistics
Author
Savory, Seb ; Payne, Frank ; Hadjifotiou, Anagnostis
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., London
Volume
24
Issue
11
fYear
2006
Firstpage
3907
Lastpage
3913
Abstract
Polarization mode dispersion (PMD) is a time varying phenomenon, which in a network can result in system outages. In this paper, it is demonstrated that the method of extreme value statistics can be used to model the occurrence of these rare events. The extreme value behavior of the bit error rate (BER) due to PMD is analyzed both theoretically and experimentally, revealing that the logarithm of the BER follows a Gumbel distribution
Keywords
error statistics; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; statistical analysis; Gumbel distribution; bit error rate; extreme value statistics; outage estimation; polarization mode dispersion; system outages; Bit error rate; Monte Carlo methods; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Polarization mode dispersion; Statistical distributions; Statistics; Time measurement; Ultraviolet sources; Weibull distribution; Extreme value distributions; optical fiber communication; outage probability; polarization mode dispersion (PMD);
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Lightwave Technology, Journal of
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0733-8724
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/JLT.2006.883605
Filename
4012225
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