Passive optical network monitoring: Challenges and requirements

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Rad, Mohammad M ^a   Fouli, Kerim ^b   Fathallah, Habib A ^c   Rusch, Leslie A ^d   Maier, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fiber optics; Monitoring; Optical fiber devices; Optical network units; Passive optical networks

Indexed keywords

ENABLING TOOLS; IN-SERVICE MONITORING; MONITORING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL FIBER DEVICES; OPTICAL NETWORK UNITS; OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS; RECENT PROGRESS; REFLECTION MONITORING; SOLUTION PATH;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; FIBERS; MONITORING; OPTICAL FIBERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

PASSIVE NETWORKS;

EID: 79951560461     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2011.5706313     Document Type: Article

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