• DocumentCode
    2019389
  • Title

    Detection and mitigation of soft failure due to polarization-mode dispersion in optical networks

  • Author

    Zweck, J. ; Menyuk, C.R.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Math. & Stat., Maryland Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    5-10 March 2006
  • Abstract
    A combination of polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) monitoring and network-layer switching managed by the control plane can reduce the outage probability due to PMD to an acceptable level for a link in an optical network, without physical-layer mitigation.
  • Keywords
    failure analysis; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical fibre polarisation; telecommunication network reliability; telecommunication switching; network-layer switching; optical networks; outage probability; polarization-mode dispersion; soft failure; Communication channels; Communication system traffic control; Intelligent networks; Optical control; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Polarization mode dispersion; WDM networks;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-803-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2006.215975
  • Filename
    1637006