Presentation 2016-06-23
Availability Improvement Schemes for Multi-carrier Optical Transmission Systems
Hiroshi Yamamoto, Kei Kitamura, Masahiro Yokota, Hiroki Date, Shohei Kamamura, Takashi Miyamura, Yoshihiko Uematsu,
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Abstract(in English) In multi-carrier transmission systems, a transponder is composed of a number of optical modules equal to that of sub-carriers. Assuming that each optical module fails at a certain probability, the availability of a transponder decreases in accordance with the increase in the number of optical modules comprising the transponder. In this paper, we clarify promising schemes to improve the availability of multi-carrier transmission systems by comprehensively comparing them. We compare the improvement in availability, consistency with the current standardization, and difficulty in transmission system development based on two major schemes: (a) client traffic is continuously transmitted using only non-failed sub-carriers (Polishing scheme) and (b) the degree of redundancy of optical modules is increased to avoid transponder failure (Pool scheme). As a result, we showed that the Pool scheme is promising since it effectively increases availability with a small amount of additional optical modules and has high consistency with the current standardization and enough feasibility.
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Keyword(in English) Multi-carrier Optical Transmission / Availability Improvement / Unavailability
Paper # NS2016-31
Date of Issue 2016-06-16 (NS)

Conference Information
Committee OCS / NS / PN
Conference Date 2016/6/23(2days)
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Place (in English) Hokkaido University
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Chair Akira Hirano(NTT) / Hideki Tode(Osaka Pref. Univ.) / Eiji Oki(Univ. of Electro-Comm.)
Vice Chair Itsuro Morita(KDDI R&D Labs.) / Yoshikatsu Okazaki(NTT) / Hiroshi Hasegawa(Nagoya Univ.) / Takehiro Tsuritani(KDDI Labs.) / Haruki Ogoshi(Furukawa Electric)
Secretary Itsuro Morita(NTT) / Yoshikatsu Okazaki(Sumitomo Electric Industries) / Hiroshi Hasegawa(Kyushu Inst. of Tech.) / Takehiro Tsuritani(NTT) / Haruki Ogoshi(NICT)
Assistant / Shohei Kamamura(NTT) / Masahiro Nakagawa(NTT) / Soichiro Kametani(Mitsubishi Electric)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Optical Communication Systems / Technical Committee on Network Systems / Technical Committee on Photonic Network
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Availability Improvement Schemes for Multi-carrier Optical Transmission Systems
Sub Title (in English) NetroSphere: Towards the Transformation of Carrier Networks
Keyword(1) Multi-carrier Optical Transmission
Keyword(2) Availability Improvement
Keyword(3) Unavailability
1st Author's Name Hiroshi Yamamoto
1st Author's Affiliation Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation(NTT)
2nd Author's Name Kei Kitamura
2nd Author's Affiliation Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation(NTT)
3rd Author's Name Masahiro Yokota
3rd Author's Affiliation Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation(NTT)
4th Author's Name Hiroki Date
4th Author's Affiliation Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation(NTT)
5th Author's Name Shohei Kamamura
5th Author's Affiliation Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation(NTT)
6th Author's Name Takashi Miyamura
6th Author's Affiliation Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation(NTT)
7th Author's Name Yoshihiko Uematsu
7th Author's Affiliation Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation(NTT)
Date 2016-06-23
Paper # NS2016-31
Volume (vol) vol.116
Number (no) NS-111
Page pp.pp.19-22(NS),
#Pages 4
Date of Issue 2016-06-16 (NS)