Smart filterless optical networks based on optical spectrum analysis

Abstract

© 2019 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes,creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.Dynamic network operations can produce power fluctuations of the established connections in filterless optical networks. In addition, the gridless nature of filterless networks make that some (un)intentional effects such as transponders laser drift might disrupt the proper operation of lightpaths. To overcome these issues, we present a monitoring system exploiting data analytics and cost-effective optical spectrum analyzers to achieve smart filterless network operation. Experimental measurements are used to validate the proposed data analytics-based approaches, as well as to find the optimal resolution to achieve maximum performance with minimum cost.This work was partially supported by the EC through the METRO-HAUL project (G.A. nº 761727), from the AEI/FEDER TWINS project (TEC2017-90097-R), and from the Catalan ICREA Institution.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft