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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Articles de revista [161]
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Llibres [1]
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Recent Submissions
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Large eddy simulation and laboratory experiments on the decay of grid wakes in strongly stratified flows
(2009-07-27)
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Open AccessA detailed analysis of the flow structure resulting from the combination of turbulence and internal waves is carried out and visualized by means of the Schlieren method on waves in a strongly stratified fluid at the ... -
Autonomic NFV network services on top of disaggregated optical metro networks
(2019)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyControl and orchestration of metro network to support dynamic provisioning and reconfiguration of services based on Virtual Network Functions are demonstrated through a CDN example. Interaction among CASTOR MDA, OSM and ... -
The dichotomy of distributed and centralized control: METRO-HAUL, when control planes collide for 5G networks
(2019-07)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyAutomating the provisioning of 5G services, deployed over a heterogeneous infrastructure (in terms of domains, technologies, and management platforms), remains a complex task, yet driven by the constant need to provide ... -
Learning life cycle to speed up autonomic optical transmission and networking adoption
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019-04-05)
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Open AccessAutonomic optical transmission and networking requires machine learning (ML) models to be trained with large datasets. However, the availability of enough real data to produce accurate ML models is rarely ensured since new ... -
Experimental demonstration of machine-learning-aided QoT estimation in multi-domain elastic optical networks with alien wavelengths
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyIn multi-domain elastic optical networks with alien wavelengths, each domain needs to consider intradomain and interdomain alien traffic to estimate and guarantee the required quality of transmission (QoT) for each lightpath ... -
Autonomic transmission through pre-FEC BER degradation prediction based on SOP monitoring
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyAn Autonomic Transmission Agent based on machine-learning is proposed for excessive bit-error-rate prediction resulting from real-time analysis of state-of-polarization (SOP). The accuracy and speed of the agent enables ... -
Scientific, artistic and documentary investigation of a Picassian anonymous oil painting
(2017)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyAn anonymousoilpainting(The Comedians)with several and relevant Picassian features has been investigated in a global manner includingIRreflectometric analysis, non destructive pigment analysis with Raman ... -
Inter-core crosstalk impact on migration planning from elastic optical networks to spectrally-spatially flexible optical networks
(Optical Society of American (OSA), 2019)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyWe study inter-core crosstalk (ICXT) impact on migration planning toward spectrally-spatially flexible optical networks considering 22-core multi-core fiber. Results reveal that 55-70% of links need to be upgraded when ... -
Automated end to end Carrier Ethernet provisioning over a disaggregated WDM metro network with a hierarchical SDN control and monitoring platform
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
Conference report
Open AccessThis demo shows how a hierarchical control plane of ONOS SDN controllers orchestrates the dynamic provisioning of end-to-end Carrier Ethernet circuits on a composite network, programming the whole data path from the CPE ... -
Dynamic service reallocation in NFV-based transport WDM optical networks
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyFuture network services are expected to deliver additional functionalities besides connectivity. The Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigm provides the foundation for such concept. We propose a reallocation-based ... -
Experimental assessment of 5-10Gbps 5G multicarrier waveforms with intensity-modulation direct-detection for PONs
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThe sensitivity performance of an IMDDOFDM/FBMC/UFMC/GFDM system with a PIN based receiver is experimentally evaluated for downstream in broadband passive optical networks. Results show sensitivities better than -14.5(-8.0)dBm ... -
SDN-controlled and orchestrated OPSquare DC architecture enabling network slice deployment with QoS guarantees
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyWe present a DC architecture that enables QoSdriven network slices reconfiguration. Per-slice monitoring information is collected; upon potential QoS degradation, reconfiguration of the slice network connectivity is ...
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