Machine LEarning in Optical NeTwORks

Project Information

MENTOR

Grant agreement ID: 956713

DOI

10.3030/956713

Project closed

EC signature date 20 July 2020

Start date 1 January 2021

End date 31 December 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost

€ 1 625 503,68

EU contribution

€ 1 625 503,68

Coordinated by

ASTON UNIVERSITY
United Kingdom

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (27)

Open to all Workshop III (OTAW III) (details on courses provided and ESR attendance record)

Open workshop

Interim report on publications and public engagement activities completed

Interim report on publications and public engagementactivities completed

Report on use cases definition
Initial implementation including the SDN controller with MB- extensions and the agents
Final MENTOR workshop (details on courses provided and ESR attendance record)
The pruning/sparsification strategy for the MB optical line elements

The pruningsparsification strategy for the MB optical line elements

6 Doctoral degrees awarded
Experimental demonstration and assessment of control and management plane for ultra-wide band optical networks
Open-to-all Workshop 1 (OTAW I) (details on courses provided and ESR attendance record

Opentoall Workshop 1 OTAW I details on courses provided and ESR attendance record

Machine learning based laser noise characterization
1st year MENTOR workshop and TSW I (details on courses provided)

1st year MENTOR workshop and TSW I details on courses provided

TSW III (details on courses provided and ESR attendance record)
3rd year MENTOR workshop (details on courses provided and ESR attendance record)
Mid-Term Report for Mid-Term Review submitted to EC

MidTerm Report for MidTerm Review submitted to EC

Progress Report 1 submitted to EC
The augmentation strategy for the MB optical line elements
Machine learning framework for inverse system design of laser source and amplifiers
2nd year MENTOR workshop (details on courses provided and ESR attendance record)

2nd year MENTOR workshop details on courses provided and ESR attendance record

Methods for the sparse traffic augmentation in optical networks.
Final report on publications and public engagement activities completed
Report on data generation and distributed intelligence
Progress Report 2 submitted to EC
Routing and spectrum assignment strategies for ultra- wideband optical networks

Routing and spectrum assignment strategies for ultra wideband optical networks

Report on the implementation of distributed intelligence
Experimental demonstration of benefits by using inverse system design
Experimental demonstration of ML-based methods with reduced complexity
Final implementation of control and management plane for ultra-wide band optical networks

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

MENTOR website completed

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (11)

Data Augmentation to Improve Performance of Neural Networks for Failure Management in Optical Networks

Author(s): Lareb Zar Khan, Joao Pedro, Nelson Costa, Antonio Napoli, Lorenzo De Marinis, and Nicola Sambo
Published in: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Issue Volume 15, Issue 1, 2023, Page(s) 57-67, ISSN 1943-0620
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/jocn.472605

Network upgrade exploiting multi band: S- or E-band?

Author(s): Nicola Sambo; Bruno Correia; Antonio Napoli; João Pedro; Leily Kiani; Piero Castoldi; Vittorio Curri
Published in: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Issue Volume 14, Issue 9, September 2022, 2022, Page(s) 749-756, ISSN 1943-0620
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/jocn.464386

Implementing Neural Network-Based Equalizers in a Coherent Optical Transmission System Using Field-Programmable Gate Arrays

Author(s): Pedro J. Freire, Sasipim Srivallapanondh, Michael Anderson, Bernhard Spinnler, Thomas Bex, Tobias A. Eriksson, Antonio Napoli, Wolfgang Schairer, Nelson Costa, Michaela Blott, Sergei K. Turitsyn, Jaroslaw E. Prilepsky
Published in: Journal of Lightwave Technology, Issue 41, 2023, Page(s) 3797-3815, ISSN 0733-8724
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1109/jlt.2023.3272011

Applications of the OCATA time domain digital twin: from QoT estimation to failure management

Author(s): M. Devigili, M. Ruiz, N. Costa, C. Castro, A. Napoli, J. Pedro, L. Velasco
Published in: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Issue 16, 2024, Page(s) 221, ISSN 1943-0620
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/jocn.507128

Digital Twin-Assisted Lightpath Provisioning and Nonlinear Mitigation in C+L+S Multiband Optical NetworksSensors, MDPI Switzerland, 17 December 2024. Open access here.

Author(s): S. Ghasrizadeh, P. Khare, N. Costa, M. Ruiz, A. Napoli, J. Pedro, L. Velasco
Published in: Sensors, Issue 17 December 2024, 2024, ISSN 1424-8220
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)

Parallelization of Recurrent Neural Network-Based Equalizer for Coherent Optical Systems via Knowledge Distillation

Author(s): Sasipim Srivallapanondh, Pedro J. Freire, Bernhard Spinnler, Nelson Costa, Antonio Napoli, Sergei K. Turitsyn, Jaroslaw E. Prilepsky
Published in: Journal of Lightwave Technology, Issue 42, 2024, Page(s) 2275-2284, ISSN 0733-8724
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1109/jlt.2023.3337604

Experimental validation of XPM mitigation using a generalizable multi-task learning neural network

Author(s): Sasipim Srivallapanondh, Pedro Freire, Bernhard Spinnler, Nelson Costa, Wolfgang Schairer, Antonio Napoli, Sergei K. Turitsyn, Jaroslaw E. Prilepsky
Published in: Optics Letters, Issue 49, 2024, Page(s) 6900, ISSN 0146-9592
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/ol.535396

Model and data-centric machine learning algorithms to address data scarcity for failure identification

Author(s): Lareb Zar Khan, João Pedro, Nelson Costa, Andrea Sgambelluri, Antonio Napoli, Nicola Sambo
Published in: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Issue 16, 2024, Page(s) 369, ISSN 1943-0620
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/jocn.511863

Low complexity neural network equalizer for nonlinearity mitigation in digital subcarrier multiplexing systems

Author(s): Sasipim Srivallapanondh, Pedro Freire, Giuseppe Parisi, Mariano Devigili, Nelson Costa, Bernhard Spinnler, Antonio Napoli, Jaroslaw E. Prilepsky, Sergei K. Turitsyn
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 33, 2025, Page(s) 2558, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.542061

Twining Digital Subcarrier Multiplexed Optical Signals with OCATA for Lightpath Provisioning

Author(s): Mariano Devigili, Diogo Sequeira, Pablo Torres-Ferrera, Sasipim Srivallapanondh, Nelson Costa, Marc Ruiz, Carlos Castro, Antonio Napoli, João Pedro, Luis Velasco
Published in: Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2024, Page(s) 1-10, ISSN 0733-8724
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1109/jlt.2024.3498342

Computational Complexity Optimization of Neural Network-Based Equalizers in Digital Signal Processing: A Comprehensive Approach

Author(s): Pedro J. Freire, Sasipim Srivallapanondh, Bernhard Spinnler, Antonio Napoli, Nelson Costa, Jaroslaw E. Prilepsky, and Sergei K. Turitsyn
Published in: Journal of Lightwave Technology, Issue 15 June 2024, 2024, Page(s) Volume 42, Issue: 12, 4177-4201, ISSN 0733-8724
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1109/jlt.2024.3386886

Conference proceedings (22)

Multi-band Optical Network Assisted by GNPy: an Experimental Demonstration

Author(s): Mariano Devigili, P. Nadimi Goki, N. Sambo, P. Castoldi, L. Potì, A. D’Amico, and V. Curri
Published in: IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications, LATINCOM, Issue 30 November 2022 to 2 December 2022, 2023, ISBN 978-80-8075-477-8
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/latincom56090.2022.10000774

Optimizing Deep Learning-based Failure Management in Optical Networks by Monitoring Relative Neural Activity

Author(s): Lareb Zar Khan; Andrea Sgambelluri; Lorenzo De Marinis; Nicola Sambo
Published in: ONDM Conference, Madrid, Issue May 2024, 2024
Publisher: IEEE

Degradation Detection and Severity Estimation by Exploiting an Optical Time and Frequency Digital Twin

Author(s): M. Devigili, M. Ruiz, S. Barzegar, N. Costa, A. Napoli, J. Pedro, L. Velasco
Published in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2023, 2023, Page(s) W2A.18
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2023.w2a.18

Dealing with High Cardinality of Network Management System Data for Machine-Learning-Based Alarm Classification

Author(s): Lareb Zar Khan, Triki Ahmed, Maxime Laye, Nicola Sambo
Published in: International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling ONDM Conference, Portugal, Issue 11 May 2023, 2024
Publisher: ONDM Conference

State-of-the-Art Neural Network-Based Equalizers for Coherent Optical Communication Systems: Architectures and Complexity

Author(s): Srivallapanondh, S., Freire, P., Napoli, A., Prilepsky, J., & Turitsyn S
Published in: SBFoton, International Optics and Photonics Conference, Salvador, Brazil, 11-13 November 2024, 2024
Publisher: Optica

Dual Time and Frequency Domain Optical Layer Digital Twin

Author(s): Mariano Devigili, Marc Ruiz, Nelson Costa, Antonio Napoli, João Pedro, Luis Velasco,
Published in: 2022 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2022), paper Tu5.42, Issue 18-22 September 2022, 2022, ISBN 978-1-957171-15-9
Publisher: IEEE

Experimental Validation of Deep Learning-based Models for Optical Time Domain Analysis

Author(s): Devigili, M; Sequeira, D; Santos, C; Ruiz, M; Shariati, B; Costa, N; Napoli, A; Pedro, J; Fischer, J; Velasco, L
Published in: CLEO: Science and Innovations, Issue May 2023, 2023
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8354995

Extending the OCATA Digital Twin to the Frequency Domain

Author(s): Devigili, M; Ruiz, M; Costa, N; Castro, C; Napoli, A; Pedro, J; Velasco, L
Published in: ICTON Conference, Romania, Issue July 2023, 2023
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8355043

SSMS: A Split Step MultiBand Simulation Software

Author(s): Khare P; Costa, N; Pedro, J; Napoli, A; Arpanaei, F; Comellas, J; Ruiz, M; Velaco, L
Published in: Icton, Bucharest, Romania, Issue 2-6 July 2023, 2023
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8359483

Applications of Digital Twin for Autonomous Zero- Touch Optical Networking [Invited]

Author(s): Luis Velasco; Mariano Devigili; Marc Ruiz
Published in: Zenodo, Issue Conference Paper, 2023
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7876110

Data Augmentations to Reduce Computational Complexity of Neural Network Based soft failure cause identifier

Author(s): Lareb Khan, Joao Pedro, Pedro Freire, Nelson Costa, Antonio Napoli, Nicola Sambo
Published in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2023 Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2023), paper M3G.3, 2023, ISBN 978-1-957171-18-0
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2023.m3g.3

Multi-Task Learning to Enhance Generalizability of Neural Network Equalizers in Coherent Optical Systems

Author(s): Srivallapanondh, Sasipim; Freire, Pedro J; Alam, Ashraful; Costa, Nelson; Spinnler, Bernhard; Napoli, Antonio; Sedov, Egor; Turitsyn, Sergei K; Prilepsky, Jaroslaw E
Published in: Poster, Issue 1, 2023
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10041293

Optical Network Alarms Classification using Unsupervised Machine Learning

Author(s): Lareb Zar Khan, Ahmed Triki, Maxim Laye and Nicola Sambo
Published in: 2022 27th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC) and 2022 International Conference on Photonics in Switching and Computing (PSC), Issue 3-6 July 2022, 2022, ISBN 978-1-6654-8606-4
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/oecc/psc53152.2022.9849872

Routing and Spectrum Assignment Assisted by Reinforcement Learning in Multi-Band Optical Networks

Author(s): Abdennour Ben Terki, Joao Pedro, Antonio Eira, Antonio Napoli, and Nicola Sambo
Published in: European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2022), paper Tu5.63, Issue 18-22 September 2022, 2022, ISBN 978-1-6654-7557-0
Publisher: IEEE

Data augmentation to Improve Machine Learning for Optical network failure management

Author(s): Lareb Zar Khan, Joao Pedro, Nelson Costa, Antonio Napoli, and Nicola Sambo
Published in: 2022 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), Issue 18-22 September 2022, 2022, ISBN 978-1-6654-7557-0
Publisher: IEEE

The Potential of Data Augmentation for Failure Management in Optical Networks

Author(s): N. Sambo, L. Z. Khan, J. Pedro, N. Costa, L. De Marinis, and A. Napoli,
Published in: Advanced Photonics Congress 2023, 2023, Page(s) Paper NeM3B.1.
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group, 2023

Using the OCATA Digital Twin to Improve QoT of Optical Connections in Multiband Optical Networks

Author(s): Sadegh Ghasrizadeh, Prasunika Khare, Marc Ruiz, and Luis Velasco
Published in: The International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2024, Issue 2024, 2024
Publisher: The International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2024

Hardware Realization of Nonlinear Activation Functions for NN-based Optical Equalizers

Author(s): Sasipim Srivallapanondh, Pedro J. Freire, Antonio Napoli, Sergei K. Turitsyn, Jaroslaw E. Prilepsky
Published in: Conference on Lasers & Electro-Optics 2023, Issue 12 May 2023, 2023
Publisher: Arxiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2305.09495

Multi-Task Learning to Enhance Generalizability of Neural Network Equalizers in Coherent Optical Systems

Author(s): Sasipim Srivallapanondh, Pedro J. Freire, Ashraful Alam, Nelson Costa, Bernhard Spinnler, Antonio Napoli, Egor Sedov, Sergei K. Turitsyn, Jaroslaw Prilepsky.
Published in: European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), Glasgow, 1 October 2023, Issue 2023, 2023
Publisher: Arxiv

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Resource Allocation in Multi-Band Optical Networks

Author(s): Abdennour Ben Terki, João Pedro, António Eira, Antonio Napoli, Nicola Sambo
Published in: 2024 International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM), Issue 2024, 2024, Page(s) 1-4
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/ondm61578.2024.10582635

Towards Zero-Touch Optical Multiband Networking with the OCATA Optical Time Domain Digital Twin

Author(s): Prasunika Khare, Sadegh Ghasrizadeh, Mariano Devigili, Marc Ruiz, Luis Velasco
Published in: The International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 14 July 2024., 2024
Publisher: UPC, Spain

Extending the OCATA Digital Twin for Optical Connections based on Digital Subcarrier Multiplexing

Author(s): Mariano Devigili; D Sequeira; Marc Ruiz; Nelson Costa; Carlos Castro; Antonio Napoli; Joao Pedro; Luis Velasco
Published in: The Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), San Diego, 2024
Publisher: Zenodo

Other (8)

Model-Centric versus Data-Centric Machine Learning for Soft-Failure Cause Identification in Optical Networks

Author(s): Zar Khan, Lareb; Pedro, Joao; Costa, Nelson; Napoli, Antonio; Sambo, Nicola
Published in: Poster, Issue 1, 2023
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10063814

Routing and Spectrum Assignment Assisted by Reinforcement Learning in Multi-band Optical Networks

Author(s): Abdennour Ben Terki, Joao Pedro, Antonio Eira, Antonio Napoli, Nicola Sambo
Published in: Poster, 2022
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8314357

Synthetic Measurements of Single Carrier and Digital Subcarrier Multiplexing Optical Signals

Author(s): Mariano Devigili, Marc Ruiz Ramírez, Esteban Velasco, Luis Domingo
Published in: Data set, 2024
Publisher: CORA at UPC, funder acknowledgement in Readme.txt file

Computational Complexity Evaluation of Neural Network Applications in Signal Processing

Author(s): Pedro J. Freire, Sasipim Srivallapanondh, Antonio Napoli, Jaroslaw E. Prilepsky, Sergei K. Turitsyn
Published in: Arxiv, Issue 24 June 2022, 2022
Publisher: Cornwell University
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2206.12191

Dealing with High Cardinality of Network Management System Data for Machine-Learning-Based Alarm Classification

Author(s): Zar Khan, Lareb; Triki, Ahmed; Laye, Maxime; Sambo, Nicola
Published in: Poster, Issue 1, 2023
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10060944

Simulation and experimental data of frequency domain and time domain optical signal measurements for optical network digital twins

Author(s): Marc Ruiz Ramírez, Esteban Velasco, Luis Domingo, Mariano Devigili,Behnam Shariati; Karl Johannes Fischer; Caio Marciano Santos
Published in: Data set, 2024
Publisher: CORA at UPC, funder acknowledgement in Readme.txt file

Ultrafast Predictions of Power Evolution and Gain Spectra in Bidirectional-Pumped Fiber Raman Amplifiers Employing Neural Networks-based Solvers

Author(s): Li Zhang, Erwan Pincemin, Naveena Genay, Darko Zibar
Published in: Poster, 2024
Publisher: Orbit, Technical University of Denmark

Knowledge Distillation Applied to Optical Channel Equalization: Solving the Parallelization Problem of Recurrent Connection

Author(s): Sasipim Srivallapanondh, Pedro J. Freire, Bernhard Spinnler, Nelson Costa, Antonio Napoli, Sergei K. Turitsyn, Jaroslaw E. Prilepsky
Published in: Arxiv, Issue 8 December 2022, 2022
Publisher: Cornwell University
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2212.04569

Thesis and dissertations (1)

Applications of the OCATA Optical Layer Digital Twin

Author(s): Devigili, Mariano; Velasco, Luis; Napoli, Antonio
Published in: PhD Thesis: Applications of the OCATA Optical Layer Digital Twin, Mariano Devigili, UPC, Issue 1, 2024
Publisher: Zenodo