Rise time based quality analysis of optical networks

Abstract

In optical networks, lightpath is defined as an all optical WDM channel which establishes a connection between source and destination node by network layer. Whenever the selected path doesn't satisfy the required criteria of either BER or Q-Factor or data rate, the connection will be blocked. Lots of works has been done in finding Quality factor early, but this paper focuses on finding quality of transmission using rise time budget and study the effect of rise time on data rate and other parameters.