{"title":"First demonstration of a spectrally efficient FDM radio over fiber system topology for beyond 4G cellular networking","authors":"S. Mikroulis, T. Xu, J. Mitchell, I. Darwazeh","doi":"10.1109/NOC.2015.7238621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NOC.2015.7238621","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, a spectrally efficient frequency division multiplexing (SEFDM) scheme based on radio over fiber (RoF) technology is proposed for the first time, so as to address next generation wireless data traffic demands on a cost, energy & spectrally efficient way. A proposed radio over fiber topology for beyond 4G deployment is addressed and a proof-of-concept SEFDM long term evolution (LTE) type radio over multimode fiber transmission is successfully demonstrated at 36Mb/s.","PeriodicalId":162507,"journal":{"name":"2015 20th European Conference on Networks and Optical Communications - (NOC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124923681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Differential polarization decoding for robust coherent optical packet switched networks","authors":"A. Walsh, Andrew P. Barry, A. Ellis","doi":"10.1109/NOC.2015.7238605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NOC.2015.7238605","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes the use of the 2-D differential decoding to improve the robustness of dual-polarization optical packet receivers and is demonstrated in a wavelength switching scenario for the first time.","PeriodicalId":162507,"journal":{"name":"2015 20th European Conference on Networks and Optical Communications - (NOC)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115195842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adapting the EPON MAC protocol to a metropolitan burst switching network","authors":"J. Pesic, A. Triki, A. Gravey","doi":"10.1109/NOC.2015.7238617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NOC.2015.7238617","url":null,"abstract":"This paper compares the respective efficiencies of the control and the management planes in performing resource allocation for TWIN (Time-domain Wavelength Interleaved Networking) optical networks used to aggregate and distribute traffic within a metropolitan area. While the Management Plane driven MAC (MP-MAC) protocol is based on an quasi-static configuration derived from optimization model, the Control Plane driven MAC (CP-MAC) protocol is based on adapting Passive Optical Network (PON) upstream traffic control, originally designed to access network, to the metropolitan network. The performance levels delivered by both approaches are compared by simulating a TWIN network applied to a Multi-hEad sub-wavElength swiTching (MEET) architecture that ensures an all optical aggregation between the regional metropolitan and the core networks. The simulation assesses the QoS delivered to three different classes of service, for a packet level traffic trace obtained from an operational network.","PeriodicalId":162507,"journal":{"name":"2015 20th European Conference on Networks and Optical Communications - (NOC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128424205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A pragmatic approach to impairment awareness in optical networks","authors":"F. Iqbal, R. Smets, F. Kuipers","doi":"10.1109/NOC.2015.7238608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NOC.2015.7238608","url":null,"abstract":"The points-of-presence of optical networks are interconnected by photonic paths capable of carrying Terabits of data. However, signals along those photonic paths accumulate transmission impairments and thus can be unreadable at the receiver if the accumulated impairments are too high. Our contributions in this paper are three-fold: (1) we propose the use of a realistic link structure to quantify the potential harm of impairments, (2) we propose a new additive routing metric, referred to as the Figure-of-Impact (FoI), that quantifies the potential harm of the non-linear Self-Phase Modulation (SPM) impairment, and (3) we propose a two-phase heuristic for solving the multi-constrained impairment-aware routing and wavelength assignment problem and apply it to a realistic network.","PeriodicalId":162507,"journal":{"name":"2015 20th European Conference on Networks and Optical Communications - (NOC)","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128584722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Sgambelluri, F. Paolucci, A. Giorgetti, F. Cugini, P. Castoldi
{"title":"SDN and PCE implementations for segment routing","authors":"A. Sgambelluri, F. Paolucci, A. Giorgetti, F. Cugini, P. Castoldi","doi":"10.1109/NOC.2015.7238607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NOC.2015.7238607","url":null,"abstract":"Segment Routing (SR) technology has been proposed to enforce effective routing strategies without relying on signaling protocols. In this paper, two SR implementations are presented and successfully demonstrated in two different network testbeds. The first implementation focuses on a software defined networking (SDN) scenario where nodes consist of OpenFlow switches and the SR Controller is a specifically designed enhanced version of an OpenFlow Controller. The second implementation includes a novel Path Computation Element (PCE) scenario where nodes consist of commercially available IP/MPLS routers and the SR Controller is a new extended version of a PCE solution. Both implementations have been successfully applied to demonstrate dynamic traffic rerouting. In particular, by enforcing different segment list configurations at the ingress node, rerouting is effectively achieved with no packet loss and without requiring the use of signaling protocols.","PeriodicalId":162507,"journal":{"name":"2015 20th European Conference on Networks and Optical Communications - (NOC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130612962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CORNETO: A software system for simulating and optimizing optical networks","authors":"M. Alsalka, J. Elmirghani","doi":"10.1109/NOC.2015.7238610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NOC.2015.7238610","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present a software system that is being developed at the University of Leeds for simulating and optimizing energy efficient optical core networks. The system is called CORNETO, an acronym for CORe NETwork Optimization. The software implements many of the energy saving concepts, methods and computational heuristics that have been produced by the ongoing INTERNET, INTelligent Energy awaRe NETworks, project. The main objective of the software is to help network operators and planners green their networks while maintaining quality of service. In this paper we briefly describe the software and demonstrate its capabilities with two case studies.","PeriodicalId":162507,"journal":{"name":"2015 20th European Conference on Networks and Optical Communications - (NOC)","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116376613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Min Liu, Min Zhang, Dahai Han, Lei Lang, Pengfei Luo
{"title":"Performance analysis of a DSSS-based UV communication with inter-symbol interference","authors":"Min Liu, Min Zhang, Dahai Han, Lei Lang, Pengfei Luo","doi":"10.1109/NOC.2015.7238627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NOC.2015.7238627","url":null,"abstract":"Inter-symbol interference (ISI) may become detrimental when the data rate rises in the atmospheric scattering UV channel. In this paper, we model the ISI effect due to delay spread in the UV channel and evaluate the approach of direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) in eliminating ISI and improve the system performance. Both the measured noise and newly reported experimental results of impulse response are introduced and incorporated. Numerical simulations are conducted to analyze the relations between bit-error-rate (BER) and spread factor, sample number, data rate. The results indicate that the DSSS reduces the ISI effect evidently.","PeriodicalId":162507,"journal":{"name":"2015 20th European Conference on Networks and Optical Communications - (NOC)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123998500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maximizing the capacity of ultra-long haul submarine systems","authors":"S. Desbruslais","doi":"10.1109/NOC.2015.7238603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NOC.2015.7238603","url":null,"abstract":"The capacity of ultra-long haul (ULH) submarine systems is ultimately limited by the electrical power that can be delivered to the submerged amplifiers within the repeaters. An excessive power feed voltage will cause damage to the cable and joints and so the system should be designed to maximize the power available per repeater using the available voltage. Furthermore, the optical system design must use the available power efficiently in order to maximise the system capacity. Here, both electrical and optical design methodologies are considered which achieve this aim. It is found that the ideal span loss is in the range 8-10dB and that the system should be operated in the linear regime of the fibre, obviating the need for high effective area fibres. Furthermore it is shown that higher order modulation formats are inefficient in ULH systems as sufficient bandwidth is available and standard PM-QPSK allows for greater capacities. In this respect, spectral efficiency is a poor metric to assess such systems. Through optimization, it is shown that transpacific systems of up to 250 Tb/s over 10 SDM channels are feasible using amplifier bandwidths of 70nm.","PeriodicalId":162507,"journal":{"name":"2015 20th European Conference on Networks and Optical Communications - (NOC)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133116458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modelling lifecycle carbon emissions of broadband access systems","authors":"D. Faulkner, K. Dickerson, N. Wall, S. Watts","doi":"10.1109/NOC.2015.7238614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NOC.2015.7238614","url":null,"abstract":"Broadband access systems use electricity generated by power plants of which a proportion burn fossil fuels and release carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere. In Europe, the Code of Conduct for Broadband Access Devices provides voluntary targets for the maximum in-use power consumption of a range of access devices with a view to making year-on-year reductions as the technologies mature. Less is known about the CO2 released into the atmosphere during the embodiment of the devices and their lifecycle emissions. The aim of this paper present results of lifecycle modelling work carried in the EU 7th Framework Programme `BATS' project (Broadband Access via integrated Terrestrial and Satellite systems). Results showed that the emissions resulting from the in-use electricity (largely from fossil fuelled power plants) dominated the GHG emissions for all broadband access technologies and was of the order of 99.9% of total emissions.","PeriodicalId":162507,"journal":{"name":"2015 20th European Conference on Networks and Optical Communications - (NOC)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130190131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Z. Ghassemlooy, Z. Zhan, Min Zhang, Dahai Han, H. Le‐Minh
{"title":"A hybrid OFDM-WDM visible light communications","authors":"Z. Ghassemlooy, Z. Zhan, Min Zhang, Dahai Han, H. Le‐Minh","doi":"10.1109/NOC.2015.7238618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NOC.2015.7238618","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents a hybrid orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) - wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) visible light communication (VLC). Direct detection is adopted in place of complex digital signal processing such as channel estimation and channel equalization, or even forward error corrections. Generic red, green and blue light emitting diodes (LED) are used for high-speed WDM based 3-channel VLC and white LED for indoor illumination. In each channel, we have used direct current optical OFDM to improve the frequency utilization efficiency. We report an experimental data rate of 288 Mb/s over a transmission span of 1m for indoor applications.","PeriodicalId":162507,"journal":{"name":"2015 20th European Conference on Networks and Optical Communications - (NOC)","volume":"199 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114194202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}