Abstract
Supervision of the physical layer of optical networks is an extremely relevant subject. To detect fiber faults, single-ended solutions, such as the optical time-domain reflectometry (OTDR), allow for precise measurements of fault profiles. Combining the OTDR with a signal processing approach for high-dimensional sparse parameter estimation allows for automated and reliable results in reduced time. In this paper, a measurement system composed of a photon-counting OTDR data acquisition unit and a processing unit based on a linearized Bregman iterations' algorithm for automatic fault finding is proposed. An in-depth comparative study of the proposed algorithm's fault-finding prowess in the presence of noise is presented. Characteristics, such as sensitivity, specificity, processing time, and complexity, are analyzed in simulated environments. Real-life measurements that are conducted using the photon-counting OTDR subsystem for data acquisition and the linearized Bregman-based processing unit for automated data analysis demonstrated accurate results. It is concluded that the proposed measurement system is particularly well-suited to the task of fault finding. The natural characteristic of the algorithm fosters embedding the solution in digital hardware, allowing for reduced costs and processing time.
Original language | English |
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Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Accepted Author ManuscriptKeywords
- Fault location
- Market research
- optical fiber measurements
- Optical network units
- Optical pulses
- Optical sensors
- Optical signal processing
- optical time-domain reflectometry (OTDR)
- Optical variables measurement
- signal processing
- Signal processing algorithms
- signal processing algorithms.