PPE-Assisted Silent Failure Awareness in Optical Transport Networks
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Abstract
The detection of silent failures in optical networks is inherently difficult, and their presence may jeopardize network reliability and operational efficiency, particularly as these networks scale to meet increasing bandwidth demands. Among the most elusive silent failure types are forwarding errors in wavelength selective switches (WSSs), which may misroute optical signals without triggering alarms, leading to prolonged service interruptions. In this work, we propose a novel failure detection and localization framework that leverages the distributed chromatic dispersion (CD) profile of the signal path using longitudinal power profile estimation (PPE) technique. PPE enables span-by-span reconstruction of the lightpath’s optical characteristics with resolution of a few tens of ps/nm for typical coherent signals, allowing for precise estimation of CD accumulation at each segment. By comparing the measured distributed CD profile against a topology-aware digital twin of the network, discrepancies caused by forwarding errors at specific WSS nodes are unambiguously identified and localized. Our method bypasses the limitation of total CD estimation and enhances fault localization resolution as validated by the experiment. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first experimental demonstration of silent failure identification and localization in optical networks based on PPE.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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