A modulation format recognition and optical signal-to-noise ratio monitoring scheme based on residual network and Taylor score pruning
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.A novel SA-ResNet model efficiently monitors modulation formats and optical signal-to-noise ratio in coherent optical systems. This lightweight approach offers high accuracy for advanced optical networks.
Area Of Science
- Optical Communications Engineering
- Machine Learning for Signal Processing
- Telecommunications Network Monitoring
Background
- Real-time monitoring of modulation formats (MF) and optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) is crucial for dynamic optical networks.
- Existing methods may lack efficiency or accuracy for complex modulation schemes in coherent systems.
Purpose Of The Study
- To develop an efficient joint monitoring method for MF and OSNR in coherent optical communication systems.
- To apply a lightweight deep learning model suitable for resource-constrained optical fiber monitoring.
Main Methods
- Proposed a residual network with an attention mechanism (SA-ResNet) for joint MF and OSNR monitoring.
- Evaluated the model on various M-ary Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (MQAM) signals (QPSK to 128QAM).
- Utilized Taylor pruning to reduce computational complexity (FLOPs and parameter memory).
Main Results
- Achieved 100% MF recognition accuracy and an average absolute OSNR error of 0.34 dB post-pruning and fine-tuning.
- 5-fold cross-validation yielded 99.988% MF accuracy and 0.32 dB average OSNR error.
- Reduced FLOPs from 40.5 M to 9.5 M and memory from 2.6 M to 0.5 M.
Conclusions
- The SA-ResNet model demonstrates high accuracy and efficiency for joint MF and OSNR monitoring.
- The model's low computational resource requirement makes it suitable for lightweight optical fiber monitoring systems.
- This approach supports the advancement of future dynamic and heterogeneous optical networks.

