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Optical time-domain reflectometry (OTDR) has been widely used for characterizing fiber optical links and for detecting and locating fiber faults. OTDR traces are prone to be distorted by different kinds of noise, causing blurring of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-24 Khouloud Abdelli , Helmut Griesser , Carsten Tropschug , Stephan Pachnicke

Fast and accurate fault detection and localization in fiber optic cables is extremely important to ensure the optical network survivability and reliability. Hence there exists a crucial need to develop an automatic and reliable algorithm…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Khouloud Abdelli , Helmut Griesser , Stephan Pachnicke

We introduce for the first time the utilization of Long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network architectures for the compensation of fiber nonlinearities in digital coherent systems. We conduct numerical simulations considering either…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-16 Stavros Deligiannidis , Adonis Bogris , Charis Mesaritakis , Yannis Kopsinis

A novel multitask learning approach based on stacked bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM) networks and convolutional neural networks (CNN) for detecting, locating, characterizing, and identifying fiber faults is proposed. It…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-17 Khouloud Abdelli , Helmut Griesser , Carsten Tropschug , Stephan Pachnicke

We demonstrate an optical fiber fault location method based on the frequency response of the modulated fiber optical backscattered signal in a steady state low-frequency step regime. Careful calibration and measurement allows for the…

To plan a rapid response and minimize operational costs, passive optical network operators require to automatically detect and identify faults that may occur in the optical distribution network. In this work, we present DSP-Enhanced OTDR, a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-22 Manuel P. Fernandez , Laureano A. Bulus Rossini , Juan Pablo Pascual , Pablo A. Costanzo Caso

Laser degradation analysis is a crucial process for the enhancement of laser reliability. Here, we propose a data-driven fault detection approach based on Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) recurrent neural networks to detect the different laser…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-24 Khouloud Abdelli , Danish Rafique , Stephan Pachnicke

This research presents a novel framework that combines traditional Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) signal analysis with machine learning to localize and classify fiber optic faults in rural broadband infrastructures. The proposed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Sabab Al Farabi

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 Reflectometer (OTDR) allow for precise measurements of fault profiles.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-20 Michael Lunglmayr , Gustavo C. Amaral

We report on methods to monitor the transmission path in optical networks using a correlation-based OTDR technique with direct and coherent detection. A high probing symbol rate can provide picosecond-accuracy of the fiber propagation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-07 Michael H. Eiselt , Florian Azendorf , Andre Sandmann , Florian Spinty , Mirko Lawin

This paper presents a cost-effective, low-power approach to unintentional fall detection using knowledge distillation-based LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory) models to significantly improve accuracy. With a primary focus on analyzing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-25 Hannah Zhou , Allison Chen , Celine Buer , Emily Chen , Kayleen Tang , Lauryn Gong , Zhiqi Liu , Jianbin Tang

Optical time-domain reflectometry (OTDR) is the basis for distributed time-domain optical fiber sensing techniques. By injecting pulse light into an optical fiber, the distance information of an event can be obtained based on the time of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-18 Hao Wu , Ming Tang

In the maintenance of optical fiber networks, there is a growing demand for high-precision measurement of optical loss distribution and fault locations over long distances. In this study, we propose an OCDR method incorporating periodic…

Detecting inaccurate smart meters and targeting them for replacement can save significant resources. For this purpose, a novel deep-learning method was developed based on long short-term memory (LSTM) and a modified convolutional neural…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Ming Liu , Dongpeng Liu , Guangyu Sun , Yi Zhao , Duolin Wang , Fangxing Liu , Xiang Fang , Qing He , Dong Xu

This paper presents an innovative approach to address the pressing concern of fall incidents among the elderly by developing an accurate fall detection system. Our proposed system combines state-of-the-art technologies, including…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-15 Rishabh Mondal , Prasun Ghosal

The paper presents algorithms to realize effectively and accurately the stepped-frequency waveform reflectometry (SFWR), i.e. the reflectometric technique based on the use of sinusoidal bursts. This technique is useful for monitoring the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Nicola Giaquinto , Marco Scarpetta , Maurizio Spadavecchia

We introduce a new approach for disfluency detection using a Bidirectional Long-Short Term Memory neural network (BLSTM). In addition to the word sequence, the model takes as input pattern match features that were developed to reduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Vicky Zayats , Mari Ostendorf , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Incipient fault detection in power distribution systems is crucial to improve the reliability of the grid. However, the non-stationary nature and the inadequacy of the training dataset due to the self-recovery of the incipient fault signal,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-21 Qiyue Li , Huan Luo , Hong Cheng , Yuxing Deng , Wei Sun , Weitao Li , Zhi Liu

With the increasing integration of smart meters in electrical grids worldwide, detecting energy theft has become a critical and ongoing challenge. Artificial intelligence (AI)-based models have demonstrated strong performance in identifying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Caylum Collier , Krishnendu Guha

The use of optical fiber as sensor as well as transmission medium for sensing data is discussed, enabling the use of optically active sensors without power supply at distances of tens of kilometers. Depending on the interrogation system, a…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-07 Michael Eiselt , Florian Azendorf , Andre Sandmann
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