Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

Optical Performance Monitoring Via Histogram: A Data-Driven Approach

Citation:   Wen, Y.; Wilson, K.W., "Optical Performance Monitoring viea Histogram: A Data-Driven Approach", Opto Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), DOI: 10.1109/oecc.2009.5222713, pp.1-2, July 2009 (IEEE Xplore)
MERL Report:  TR2009-054

We apply three alternative statistical learning methods to estimate optical transmission impairments (e.g., noises, chromatic dispersion) from synchronous histograms. Linear regression yields good accuracy. A more sophisticated locally weighted regression technique performs better.

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