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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-803-9
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2006.215975
