Digital Twin for the Optical Network: Key Technologies and Enabled Automation Applications
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Janz, Christopher; You, Yuren; Hemmati, Mahdi; Jiang, Zhiping; Javadtalab, Abbas; Mitra, Jeebak
- Source
- NOMS 2022-2022 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2022-2022 IEEE/IFIP. :1-6 Apr, 2022
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Engineering Profession
Economics
Automation
Instruments
Biological system modeling
Optical fiber networks
Optical variables measurement
Digital twins
digital twin
optical transmission performance
QoT
optical margin
optimization
automation
planning
control
protection
- Language
- ISSN
- 2374-9709
Optical transmission performance measurement and prediction are key Digital Twin capabilities for the optical network. Recent advances in instrumentation and models that support optical transmission performance assessment are presented. Optical network operations automation use cases enabled by a transmission performance-focused Digital Twin are described or demonstrated. These include provisioning automation, transmission performance risk mapping, optimization-based planning and control, and generalized optical margin reduction.