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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Flexible resource provisioning of polarization independent coherent PONs based on non-orthogonal multiple access and multiCAP modulation
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); Optical Society of America, 2021-07)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyA combined non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and multiband carrierless amplitude and phase modulation (multiCAP) scheme is proposed for flexible resource provisioning in coherent passive optical networks (PONs). While ... -
Experimental assessment of SDN-enabled sliceable OPSquare data center network with deterministic QoS
(2019)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyAn SDN-enabled sliceable DCN with deterministic QoS guarantees is experimentally assessed. Flow priorities are dynamically assigned to each network-slice to prevent statistical latency and packet-loss due to packet ... -
SDN-enabled reconfigurable optical data center network with automatic network slicing to provision dynamic QoS
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyAn SDN-controlled optical DCN enabling automatic QoS-driven network-slice provisioning, reconfiguration and flow-priority updating is demonstrated for the first-time. Network-slice reconfigurations with guaranteed QoS based ... -
Autonomous and energy efficient lightpath operation based on digital subcarrier multiplexing
(2021-03-09)
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Open AccessThe massive deployment of 5G and beyond will require high capacity and low latency connectivity services, so network operators will have either to overprovision capacity in their transport networks or to upgrade the optical ... -
High capacity converged passive optical network and RoF-based 5G+ fronthaul using 4-PAM and NOMA-CAP signals
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021-01-15)
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Open AccessNetwork architectural changes to satisfy all the 5G+ mobile network specifications and requirements are necessary due to the popularization of streaming and cloud applications on omnipresent portable devices. The combination ... -
Enabling service provisioning and quality maintenance in sliceable optical networks
(International Society for Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), 2021)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyFuture 5G and beyond services rely on the network slicing concept, in which underlying network elements are split and/or aggregated to compose a synthetic network infrastructure (the slice) to satisfy the requirements of ... -
ZIZO: A Zoom-In Zoom-Out mechanism for minimizing redundancy and saving energy in wireless sensor networks
(2021-02-01)
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Open AccessIn modern life, there is invisible data being continuously generated, data that if collected and processed can detect risks and changes and enable us to mitigate their effect. Thus, there is an essential need to sense ... -
Optical power budget enhancement in 50-90 Gb/s IM-DD PONs with NOMA-CAP and SOA-Based amplification
(2020-05-15)
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Open AccessWe report experimental results of a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) for optical amplification in a 50-90 Gb/s IM-DD optical access system using non-orthogonal multiple access multiplexing combined with multi-band ... -
On the optimality of concurrent container clusters scheduling over heterogeneous smart environments
(Elsevier, 2021-05-01)
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Open AccessSmart environments rely on the cloud for most computation activities; however, leveraging the availability of resources at the edge could complement the cloud capabilities to provide a resources continuum spectrum that ... -
On the experimentation of the novel GCMR multicast routing in a large-scale testbed
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
Conference lecture
Open AccessOriginally defined in the 90s, multicast is nowadays (re)gaining interest given the increasing popularity of multimedia streaming/content traffic and the explosion of cloud services. In fact, multicast yields bandwidth ... -
Supporting beyond 5G applications by coordinating AI-based intent operation: an example for multilayer metro networks
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)
Conference report
Open AccessIntent-based Networking (IBN) promises facilitating autonomous decision-making for service assurance. In this paper, we extend IBN by coordinating AI-based intents targeting at supporting beyond 5G services, like immersive ... -
Reinforcement learning-based autonomous multilayer network operation
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)
Conference report
Open AccessWe propose an Intent-Based Networking solution based on Reinforcement Learning (RL). RL-based intents with specific operational objectives and coordinated operation between network layers are developed. Results show service ...
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