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Optica Publishing Group
  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Vol. 37,
  • Issue 7,
  • pp. 1717-1723
  • (2019)

OSNR Estimation Providing Self-Confidence Level as Auxiliary Output From Neural Networks

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Abstract

Accurate optical monitors are critical for automating operations of fiber-optic networks. Deep neural network (DNN) based optical monitors have been investigated as accurate optical monitors to leverage a large amount of data obtained from fiber-optic networks. Although DNN-based optical monitors have been trained and tested to ensure the given accuracy criteria, this does not ensure sufficient accuracy under unexpected conditions, that is, out of test conditions, e.g., a newly developed modulation format that is not included in the test dataset. Thus, it is necessary to prepare a monitor to assess the current accuracy of a DNN-based optical monitor's output for robust automation of networks. We present a DNN-based optical monitor that simultaneously outputs an optical signal-to-noise ratio and its uncertainty information using a dropout method at the inference phase. This monitor was evaluated in cases in which the DNNs were trained with either a limited number of records or partially missing records in a training dataset. The proposed monitor successfully informed that own output has large uncertainties due to a limited amount of training data or a missing part in training dataset. Additionally, to improve an accuracy of estimated uncertainty, the number of partial neural networks by dropout at the inference phase was optimized. This is a valuable step toward designing robust “self-driving” optical networks.

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