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
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);
Journal_Title :
Lightwave Technology, Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JLT.2006.883605
