Digital Signal Processing for Fiber Optic Communication Networks
Providing broadband Internet access to all is a key
element of the European growth strategy. By 2020, all
Europeans should have access
to a high speed Internet connection (30 Mbps or above) and 50% or more of all
European households should have an Internet connection operating at above 100 Mbps.
To achieve these
goals, communication systems with a much lower
cost per transmitted bit
and with a much lower consumption
of energy per transmitted bit must be laid
down. This huge amount of
Internet traffic is going to circulate
mostly through already deployed fiber optic communication networks. Nevertheless, the transmission capacity
of these networks has to be upgraded through
the implementation of transmission systems with a much higher
spectral efficiency, and with a much higher degree
of flexibility. Resembling the past evolution
of radio
communications (but now with
thousand times higher bitrates and distances), digital signal processing (DSP)
will be a critical enabling
technology for the next generation
of fiber optic communication systems. This
Action aims to promote a multidisciplinary cooperation among the European
R&D community, joining efforts
from the academia and industry in the areas of optical
physics, optical communications, DSP engineering
and
electronic/hardware implementation, in order to develop innovative solutions and to achieve new decisive
breakthroughs on DSP technology for broadband optical communication systems and networks.
Digital Signal Processing for Broadband Fiber
Optic Transmission Systems and Networks; Coherent Access,
Metro and Core
Optical Networks; Spectral Efficiency in Optical Communication Systems and Networks;
Energy-Aware Optical Communication Systems and Networks; Flexible Optical Communication Systems and Networks