Expert system for the design of optical fibre communications links

The design of an optical fibre communications network is a very knowledge-rich domain, due to the emerging nature of the art. Such optical fibre systems are used in very large (e.g. global) to very small communications networks, e.g. instrumentation links. This paper describes an expert system, buil...

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Published in:Engineering applications of artificial intelligence 1995-06, Vol.8 (3), p.319-331
Main Authors: Dabke, K.P., Binh, L.N., Lau, S.P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
artificial intelligence
expert systems
fibre optics
Optical fibre communications
optoelectronics design
tutorial
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Summary:The design of an optical fibre communications network is a very knowledge-rich domain, due to the emerging nature of the art. Such optical fibre systems are used in very large (e.g. global) to very small communications networks, e.g. instrumentation links. This paper describes an expert system, built to fulfil the twin needs of a tutorial advisor as well as a design consultant for the design of small optical-fibre networks. One part of the expert system is a tutorial introduction to the terminology and basic principles of the art of the design of optical fibre networks. The other part is a designer's consultant which requests data from the inexpert user about the requirements of the optical fibre network, and then offers design choices for optical sources, fibres and receivers on the basis of experiential heuristics, as well as well-established mathematical relations. The expert system is implemented using a very cheap (
ISSN:0952-1976
1873-6769
DOI:10.1016/0952-1976(95)00005-L