Field Trial of Cable Safety Protection and Road Traffic Monitoring over Operational 5G Transport Network with Fiber Sensing and On-Premise AI Technologies

Publication Date: 7/6/2021

Event: OECC 2021 – PDP

Reference: PDP: T5A.8: 1-3, 2021

Authors: Ming-Fang Huang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Shaobo Han, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Glenn A. Wellbrock, Verizon; Tiejun J. Xia, Verizon; Chaitanya Narisetty, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Milad Salemi, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Yuheng Chen, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; James M. Moore, Verizon; Philip N. Ji, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Giovanni Milione, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Ting Wang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Yukihide Yoda, NEC Corporation; Yoshinori Kitahara, NEC Corporation; Morio Ito, NEC Corporation; Yoshiaki Aono, NEC Corporation; Atsuo Itoh, NEC Corporation

Abstract: We report the distributed-fiber-sensing field trial results over a 5G-transport-network. A standard communication fiber is used with real-time AI processing for cable self-protection, cable-cut threat assessment and road traffic monitoring in a long-term continuous test.

Publication Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9866251