GCO - Grup de Comunicacions Òptiques

 

The Optical Communications Group (GCO) is part of the Signal Theory and Communications Department (TSC). Our key research areas involve Optical Fiber Technologies, Raman Spectroscopy and High-Speed Networking.

Our experience is related to optical wavelength domain transport and access networks (WDM, HDWDM, SCM), broadband fiber transmission, sources and receivers, all-optical amplification, optical heterodyne detection, wavelength stabilization and monitoring, transparent WDM network architectures and management, optical linear and non-linear distortions, polarization/PMD treatment and network quality monitoring.

The group is integrated in the Advanced Broadband Communications Centre (CCABA) -CCABA is the acronym of ''Centre de Comunicacions Avançades de Banda Ampla''. The CCABA was set up in January 1994 with the aim of consolidating a multi-disciplinary research group: the Integrated Broadband Communications research group, the Optical Communications, the Radio Communications and the Broadband Communications groups. The UPC supports this research centre and its laboratory was partially funded by the Spanish Education Ministry (CICYT) and by Research Commission of the Catalan Government (CIRIT) under several grants. In the EC IV Framework Programme the UPC participated in the Spanish National Host through the network platform of the CCABA.

The GCO laboratories are fully equipped with broadband instrumentation for WDM and high bit rate opto-electronic system design and characterization, as well as long haul fiber link measurements and IP-ATM-SDH-WDM networking.

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Enviaments recents

  • On the benefits of elastic spectrum management in multi-hour filterless metro networks 

    Pedreno Manresa, J.J.; Izquierdo Zaragoza, José Luis; Cugini, Filippo; Pavón Mariño, Pablo (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
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    The dawn of 5G is pushing operators to deploy high-capacity, agile networks capable of adapting to time-varying traffic patterns, especially into metro sections. ROADMs are key enablers for agility in the optical layer, ...

  • Cost-effective ROADM design to maximize the traffic load capacity of u-DWDM coherent metro-access networks 

    Spadaro, Salvatore; Sarmiento Hernández, Samael; Lázaro Villa, José Antonio (2018-11-01)
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    The current constant growing in traffic demands caused by the popularization of cloud services, mobile and social networks is requiring architectural changes at the underlying networks so as to provide a more highly dynamic ...

  • A fully SDN enabled all-optical architecture for data centre virtualisation with time and space multiplexing 

    Kondepu, K; Jackson, Chirs; Ou, Y; Pagès Cruz, Albert; Agraz Bujan, Fernando; Spadaro, Salvatore (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018-07-01)
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    Virtual Data Centre (VDC) solutions provide an environment that is able to quickly scale-up and where virtual machines and network resources can be quickly added on-demand through self-service procedures. VDC providers ...

  • ALLIANCE Project: Architecting a knowledge-defined 5G-enabled network infrastructure 

    Careglio, Davide; Spadaro, Salvatore; Cabellos Aparicio, Alberto; Lázaro Villa, José Antonio; Perelló Muntan, Jordi; Barlet Ros, Pere; Gene Bernaus, Joan M.; Paillissé Vilanova, Jordi (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
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    Leaving the current 4th generation of mobile communications behind, 5G will represent a disruptive paradigm shift integrating access networks, ultra-high capacity access/metro/core optical networks and intra-datacentre ...

  • SliceNet: enabling 5G use cases for vertical businesses 

    Aleixo, Ana Cristina; Alcaraz Calero, Jose; Barros Weiss, Maria; Spadaro, Salvatore (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
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    The use cases motivating 5G are so diverse and challenging that 5G networks must be customizable for a very broad range of individual scenarios. The Project SliceNet, part of the European 5G infrastructure PPP, is set to ...

  • SliceNet: end-to-end cognitive network slicing and slice management framework in virtualised multi-domain, multi-tenant 5G networks 

    Wang, Qi; Alcaraz Calero, Jose; Barros Weiss, Maria; Spadaro, Salvatore (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
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    Network slicing has emerged as a major new networking paradigm for meeting the diverse requirements of various vertical businesses in virtualised and softwarised 5G networks. SliceNet is a project of the EU 5G Infrastructure ...

  • 1.25–2.5 Gb/s simple nyquist transmitters for coherent UDWDM-PON with enhanced spectral efficiency 

    Velásquez Micolta, Juan Camilo; Tabares Giraldo, Jeison; Cano Valadez, Iván Nicolás; Prat Gomà, Josep Joan (2018-04-19)
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    We present a coherent ultra-dense wavelength division multiplexing passive optical network (UDWDM-PON) with enhanced spectral efficiency. The benefit of using Gaussian or Nyquist pulse-shaping filters at the transmitter ...

  • Passive optical networks: introduction 

    Altabas, Jose Antonio; Sarmiento Hernández, Samael; Lázaro Villa, José Antonio (John Wiley & sons, 2018-08-15)
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    Passive optical networks (PONs) are telecommunication networks that provide services to users by no active elements. Only passive elements are used in the network to transmit the information and signals between users as ...

  • High capacity optical networks based on space division multiplexing 

    Behnam Shariati, Mohammad; Comellas Colomé, Jaume; Klonidis, Dimitrios; Velasco Esteban, Luis Domingo; Tomkos, Ioannis (John Wiley & sons, 2017-09-01)
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    This book discusses Elastic Optical Networks (EONs) from an operational perspective. It presents algorithms that are suitable for real-time operation and includes experimental results to further demonstrate the feasibility ...

  • On the scalability of dynamic Flex-Grid/SDM optical core networks 

    Rumipamba Zambrano, Rubén Darío; Perelló Muntan, Jordi; Gene Bernaus, Joan M.; Spadaro, Salvatore (2018-09-04)
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    Future optical core networks realizing Flex-Grid and Space Division Multiplexing (Flex-Grid/SDM) will be key to effectively cope with the rapid growth of the Internet traffic, thanks to their superior capacity and spectrum ...

  • Route, modulation format, MIMO and spectrum assignment in Flex-Grid/MCF transparent optical core networks 

    Rumipamba Zambrano, Rubén Darío; Perelló Muntan, Jordi; Spadaro, Salvatore (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018-08-15)
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    In this paper, we target an optimal multiple-input multiple-output digital signal processing (MIMO-DSP) assignment to super-channels affected by intercore crosstalk (ICXT) in multicore fiber (MCF) enabled transparent optical ...

  • Space continuity constraint in dynamic Flex-Grid/SDM optical core networks: An evaluation with spatial and spectral super-channels 

    Rumipamba Zambrano, Rubén Darío; Moreno Muro, Francisco Javier; Perelló Muntan, Jordi; Pavón Mariño, Pablo; Spadaro, Salvatore (Elsevier, 2018-08)
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    Space Division Multiplexing (SDM) appears as a promising solution to overcome the capacity limits of single-mode optical fibers. In Flex-Grid/SDM optical networks, nodes offering full interconnection between input/output ...

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