Transformer-Based Prognostics: Enhancing Network Availability by Improved Monitoring of Optical Fiber Amplifiers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28081v1
• Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:35:09 GMT
• Title: Transformer-Based Prognostics: Enhancing Network Availability by Improved Monitoring of Optical Fiber Amplifiers
• Abstract summary: We enhance optical network availability and reliability through a lightweight transformer model that predicts optical fiber amplifier lifetime from condition-based monitoring data.<n>We enable real-time, edge-level predictive maintenance and advancing deployable AI for autonomous network operation.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: We enhance optical network availability and reliability through a lightweight transformer model that predicts optical fiber amplifier lifetime from condition-based monitoring data, enabling real-time, edge-level predictive maintenance and advancing deployable AI for autonomous network operation.

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